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Arman's Chopin's Waterloo: a grand piano smashed and splayed across a red panel, keys, hammers, and strings fixed where they burst A solid red square Sketchbook 49 spread: Louvre notes on Giulio Romano and Pannini's paired Views of Ancient and Modern Rome, a monk-robed figure, a wine-red crouching nude hiding her face, and a pietà study Twitter exchange from February 2012: Auriea tells Hasan Niyazi she wants to make games with metaphysical catharsis; he wagers such a game is two console generations away; she replies 'we will be working to bring the future to you TODAY!' EarthBound ('The War Against Giygas!') running in an SNES emulator on a Nintendo DS, menu on the lower screen Sideways photo in the Pisa Baptistery: the bronze Saint John the Baptist raising a cross-tipped staff atop the font's spired Gothic canopy Sketchbook 45 spread: pencil drawings of Martha from above — stockinged legs crossed at left; at right her long hair falling over a white blouse and dark skirt as she sits curled Sketchbook 38 spread in charcoal: the gothic buttresses and pointed windows of St Vitus close up, and a small sketch of Charles Bridge arches over the river Snapshot dated April 1993: a young woman in a patterned vest smiles under a desk lamp in a cluttered dorm room, necklaces hanging on the wall behind John William Waterhouse's Consulting the Oracle: a priestess by lamplight speaks to a semicircle of veiled women leaning in around a marble floor John Berger in a patterned shirt against a flat blue ground, a still from Ways of Seeing, BBC 1972 A denser QR code on white, larger than the first Scanner image of a dry vine sprig: red wiry stems and tiny dark berries branching off a woody twig on a black ground Sketchbook 50 spread of dark thumbnail copies at the Mauritshuis, Den Haag: Rubens's Assumption sketch, Rembrandt's Andromeda, Vermeer's Diana and her Nymphs, Tityus and Sisyphus, and Rembrandt's Two Moors Sepia self-portrait, head bowed before a window: sunlight flares over the top of the head, dreadlocks hanging, apartment block beyond Three views of a small book silvered edge to edge: metal leaf cracking and peeling across the gutter of its open pages Gustav Klimt's Medicine: Hygieia in red and gold at the base of a drifting column of entangled nude figures, a skull among them Me and My Ghost, 2001: webcam self-portrait through realtime nato effects, rays and a lace-like hood A gray kitten sits bolt upright on the studio's wide plank floor between the piano, its stool, and the open pine door Finding the eye: three photos of one prosthetic blue-gray eye rolling about an open palm, white-tipped nails, gold ring METOPE paint and glaze figure Sketchbook 48 spread: 'The lesson of Raphael — you stand on the dragon, your sword is lighter than air', with a pencil study of a standing putto reaching upward — 'transform the hours of your life into art' Cover of sketchbook 13: dark blue-black board with a single pasted image of a theater curtain labeled 'unknown' Sketchbook 49 spread at Chicago's Driehaus Museum: sanguine studies of Tiffany bronze candlesticks and a caryatid ('Renaissance + Japanese motifs combined'), facing graphite silhouettes of cinnabar lacquer and skyline finials A dead twig with curled brown leaves on a grey ground, two leaves lettered in white paint to spell perfekt Sketchbook 38 spread: a night-blooming flower in pencil, pale petals reserved against a darkened star-flecked ground Wireframe viewport of the virtual Labytaur: a latticed dome and radiating disc enclosing a cylindrical core, a small dark figure and inverted cone below Sketchbook 48 Musée Rodin spread in ballpoint: Gates of Hell figures, a crouching nude, and notes on Camille Claudel's 'L'Âge Mûr' — 'marble so often looks like soft skin, like butter' Polaroid of a foot in a bright red-orange stocking and black strappy sandal, dark skirt hem swinging above speckled lino Bruce Nauman's 1967 neon spiral: 'The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths' in blue script wound inside a red-pink coil on a dark wall Grainy photograph of the transit of Venus: an arrow points to the planet's small dark silhouette against the Sun's blurred limb Five progressive states of the Magdalene etching side by side, the skull-faced seated figure emerging from faint outline to dense black shadow Sketchbook 49 spread: a horse-headed nude man beside a red bowl with whisk, and an Anubis-like figure draped in red over a large sphere, dated 1st April — a dream-like Egyptian pairing METOPE paint and glaze figure Sketchbook 47 spread: ballpoint life drawings — a bald man in profile, a bending figure with hanging hair, and overlapping reclining and seated nudes Sketchbook page in faint pencil: a domed high church on a cliff above the sea, with ruled text beginning 'The high church of Oorcon looms massively...' Game character model: a gaunt zombie-like man with skull-white face, arms outstretched in T-pose, black tattered body with white markings J.W. Waterhouse's Circe Invidiosa (1892): the jealous sorceress in a dark peacock gown stands on the water, pouring luminous green poison from a wide bowl Self-portrait reflected in a botanical garden greenhouse pane, camera raised, autumn pines and roses tinted rose-gold through the glass Painting of a grim place setting: a small head surfacing from a plate of dark soup, spoon, napkin, and a glass of pale wine on white linen Journal spread 'MY PERFECT LIFE 30': a diagrammed stomach with handwritten confessions at left, a scrawled dark figure and notes on vomiting as remedy at right, dated 27 June 92 Metope's Interface tablet: the four interface stones (basalt, plaster, terracotta, aegean), the metal accent swatches with follow-brush, the viewport backdrop controls, and reset bench. Till We Have Faces, pages 292 and 293: Orual chews the strange bread of the gods, declares herself Ungit, and despairs that no man will love an ill-favoured woman Cover of sketchbook 36: red Moleskine with a dark Polaroid of a braided head wrapped in red-veined tissue, a postcard of an ornate clock-tower shrine, and a skull sticker ThinkPad X201 tablet open, keyboard in the foreground; the glossy screen reflects the photographer instead of showing anything — the Eureka Maru Belgian practical driving-exam sheet, 12/06/2014: 'Uitgesteld' — deferred — with the examiner's litany of Voorbehoud and Onvoldoende line by line Sketchbook 48 spread, first day drawing in the Louvre: boxy graphite block-in of a seated nude, ink brush sketches, and the assignment 'Draw all the River Gods!' Scanned spread from The Unbearable Lightness of Being, chapters 14 to 16: Tereza embraces a tree like a lost grandfather while the man with the rifle waits Cover of sketchbook 19: mustard felt-covered board with a small window of antique printed text pasted at center Black-and-white photograph of the Auschwitz gate, the wrought-iron ARBEIT MACHT FREI arch over the empty road between barracks

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