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Handwritten score: 'AURIEA, for two pianos' — September 15, 2015, Oostende — playfully, allegretto; 'brush strings gently', 'choose a string, find the note', ending 'fin' three times Sketchbook 44: graphite copy after Velázquez — a short-haired boy with a white collar glancing over his shoulder, a hand below him raising a small glass Sketchbook 44 spread: ballpoint plane trees and a mossy fountain, with scribbled motion studies of dancers noted from Les Ballets C de la B's 'Oude King' — 'human range of motion', 'over pain madness' Still from Shadow of the Colossus: Wander on his black horse Agro wheels before a towering, moss-grown stone colossus ZBrush fragment for the Magdalene: a single bent arm rising from the elbow, its hand gripping a skull whose jaw dissolves into the fingers The Aztec basalt statue of Coatlicue: the earth goddess with clawed feet, a skull at her waist and twin serpent heads forming her face, on a blue ground Blurred black-and-white photo of the Penguin Classics Ovid Metamorphoses, its cover Bernini's Apollo and Daphne, her fingers bursting into laurel Joseph Beuys's Eurasia Siberian Symphony 1963 in three photos: taxidermy hare on poles against the chalk-drawn panel, plus the museum label Page from the Codex Seraphinianus: two halves of a hollow deer joined by red threads, a tiny figure dangling between them, with asemic script Inverted photo: bare legs dangling from a silver-insulated ceiling above shopping baskets of toys — a mirror-world garage Cover of sketchbook 40: plain dark grey woven bookcloth, worn at the corners, no title Journal spread dated Friday 22 October 1993: a purple-sweatered figure with a scribbled dark face, and a lightbulb sketch holding two tiny figures Close detail of a Van Gogh flower still life: asters and chrysanthemums in pink, ochre, and red built up in thick ridged impasto strokes Silent-film title card, white on black: 'Through me you pass into the city of woe… All hope abandon ye who enter here.' Labeled cutaway diagram of the Teller-Ulam two-stage thermonuclear design: primary with plutonium pit beside the cylindrical secondary in its radiation case Roma sketchbook spread 'S.P.Q.R.': ink studies of statues and angels with notes — 'It is a frightening thing when one culture supplants another... In Rome the Gods are truly dead.' Cover of sketchbook 46: plain grey-green linen with a black elastic band, unadorned Sketchbook pencil drawing of an embrace: her hands buried in his hair as he leans into her shoulder, faces hidden BBC photograph of a black crested macaque crouched in jungle foliage, peering intently into an object held up to its face Fifty-song year-end playlist: UMO, Momus, Belle & Sebastian, Vivaldi's Stabat Mater highlighted, Jarboe, Joanna Newsom, Boduf Songs Long-exposure blur of a family living room seen through a mylar balloon — clock, cabinet and figures smeared into ghosts Cover of sketchbook 25: dark green cloth with a small black-and-white photo of Devils Tower and three red ribbons hanging down METOPE paint and glaze figure La Vita Nova render: two glittering point-cloud sculptures face each other from arched niches across a grey, star-flecked mist Detail of Marqueste's Perseus Slaying Medusa: the gorgon cries out, head wrenched back, small wings at her shoulder, beside a fluted column 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 Silent Hill screenshot: Harry Mason stands at a counter with a red notepad as text reads that someone may someday find these notes useful Two clear printed head-bottles beside their signed label: 'Object #3 — Head of a Negress in the Form of a Plastic Vessel, 2018, Auriea XLVI. This head has been checked for leaks, but be careful.' Sketchbook 38 spread in ballpoint: a park path curving under trees toward a small stone bridge, an empty bench in dappled shade Kiki Smith's bronze fountain figure: a standing nude woman on a pedestal, water trickling from her open hands, photographed against violet light Faded 1970s snapshot of two small girls in white Easter dresses and hair ribbons on a sunny sidewalk, a black-and-white photo of daisies tucked into the corner Potted arrangement of pale green sedum rosettes with reddish edges, one spray of small yellow flowers, in a white bowl Valentine's mail from Marian Bantjes: hand-calligraphed envelope from Bowen Island, a violet sheet dense with swirling script, Canada stamp Cover of sketchbook 12B: black board flecked with white and pink paint, collaged strips of patterned paper and a small photo of a white horse at center Auriea and Michaël in profile, nearly nose to nose in the blue courtyard of the Casa Azul under the words 'Frida y Diego vivieron en esta casa 1929–1954' Two sagittal MRI scans of the same head and spine in profile, lips, tongue, and vertebrae glowing white against black Robert Fludd's black square engraving, its edges inscribed 'Et sic in infinitum' on all four sides Metope's Canvas tablet: the canvas shape modes (rectangle, circle, polygon), the block width, height and depth fields with the resize anchor, the block material dropdown with its reroll die, and the new-slab button. Graphite study of a marble torso's thighs, a carved hand gathering the robe aside at the waist, with a smaller drapery sketch alongside A robed figure sits alone on a vast expanse of rippled desert sand, golden light raking the dunes — an image from Lawrence of Arabia Sketchbook 32 spread in black ink: Central Park trees at night seen from the Natural History Museum steps, canopies blotted heavy against a pale sky Webcam self-portrait at 18h54: a sheet of handwriting held in the teeth over an open notebook and printed mandala images Sketchbook 40, 'Plan V': a hand-drawn watercolor map of the Venice trip — the Grande Canal, Lido, flight numbers, hotel notes, two instant photos taped on, 'we sat here + kissed' Notebook page 'The ultimate FINAL to do list' with nearly every line struck through in red, 'DONE!' scrawled at top Untextured brown 3d man in a hooded jacket standing at rest in the Blender viewport — 144 character work Nine well-used colored pencils and pastels fanned out on grey — silvers, blues, reds, black and brown The Graveyard grandmother's face in wireframe over textured skin, black beret, on flat sky blue iChat window with Ben Coopersmith: pink and grey bubbles chanting 'make it real' / 'make the dream real', ending with quitting smoking on my birthday Raw photogrammetry scan for The Flower Seller: a grey ragged-edged bust with a blurred face, an armful of thick-petaled blooms dissolving into scan debris Belgian Senate ballot, 13 June 2010, pink paper listing 25 senators by party column; a hand with a pencil hovers over Groen!

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