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Sketchbook 43 spread: a real pressed pansy taped over pencil pansies in a vase; opposite, a portrait of an older man in a tank top and a note on seeing the work of Steven Assael, 26 May 2012 Diary line in blue ballpoint over the printed word APRIL: 'I wrote this in Darmstadt with a free pen. Michael has gone to the restroom. I'm drinking champagne.' Mike Libby's mechanical insect: a real cicada with orange-and-black wings spread, its body replaced by tiny watch gears and a red jewel The same vessel after growing supports: branching oak-coloured struts descend from the rim and from the base ring, merging into a few thicker legs that meet the build plate. Anne Carson, 'Could I': 'If you are not the free person you want to be, you must find a place to tell the truth about that… The point is not to find a reader, the point is the telling itself.' Labeled photo of First Style wall decoration in the Samnite House, Herculaneum, ca. 100 BC: painted plaster courses marked plinth, socle, orthostats, frieze and cornice An antique red-and-gold binding of Vecellio's Costumes Anciens et Modernes given new blank pages — old spine, bare label panel, fresh paper inside Tiny dark sketch of three standing figures side by side, scratched out of black ink Two Belgian ballots, 7 June 2009: the mint-green European Parliament sheet and the Flemish Parliament list, red dots marked under GROEN! A modular synthesizer built into wooden cases on slender antique legs: two tiers of patch panels and dials above a keyboard Small grainy black-and-white photo of Sonic Youth: Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Steve Shelley posed against a dark wall Sketchbook 44 spread over the printed chapter headings of Feu et Flamme: a tonal graphite nude curled around his knees, hands clasped over his feet The same support forest assigned the bronze material instead of oak, so the struts read as cast metal against a marble body. Masahiro Mori's uncanny valley graph: familiarity against human likeness, dipping past bunraku puppet toward corpse and zombie before healthy person News photo of pilgrims wrapped in blankets watching sunrise above the clouds on Mount Sinai, paired with a Google Earth view of the same brown peaks MinoRinth: looking down into the maze's core, a grey fan of wall segments circling a sunken mosaic hexagon overlaid with green triangulation Tycho Brahe's geoheliocentric diagram: the Moon circles the central Earth while the planets and a comet circle the Sun, in a period engraving Digital painting 'Did she jump or was she pushed': a white streak of a falling figure flashing through smoky blue and umber clouds inside a hot red border Cover of sketchbook 8 (1990s): silver paint scrawled with dense handwriting around a torn red 'FRAGILE' sticker split by a lightning crack, above a Vitruvian-style figure in a grid Silver laptop running a 3D level editor with skull textures; below it the boxed retail edition of The Path and a black book stamped PR3 The Metope Atelier interface: the glyph spine at the left, the Tools tablet pinned open with all twenty shape tools and the brush controls, the Material tablet at the right, and a relief in progress in the viewport. Roma sketchbook: an umbrella pine in terracotta pencil with a dark inked sculpture head resting at its base The Path logo: scratchy black hand-drawn capitals reading THE PATH, 'a tale of tales' small beneath Entropy8Zuper! flag emblem: a black pennant with white 8 and zig glyphs waving inside a red circle on black Belgian identity card in a black wallet — the new Belgian ID — and below, freshly twisted hair seen from above Hand-drawn anarchy symbol: a rough black brushstroke A crossing through a circle Page 125 of Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist: at an opened grave a dead woman speaks as an oracle, questioned about a wolf whose name was Man Black-and-white diagram of the lost circular pavement labyrinth of Santa Maria in Trastevere: eleven concentric mosaic rings around a dark center DVD cover of Antonioni's Blow-Up: on hot orange, a photographer kneels over a woman on the ground, camera raised Sketchbook 5: dense ballpoint drawing of a horse-like skull in profile, its teeth and cranial plates crosshatched into a black-and-white pattern Snowflake-filtered webcam pair: Michael and Auriea cheek to cheek, then Auriea laughing with hand to forehead, ring catching the light Sketchbook 45 spread: a close brown-toned gouache portrait of a woman's face, facing a red ink-and-wash figure curled inside an egg-like ring with notes on love, fragments and ruins in technological art Spolia-Style-Trunk Photo of an open sketchbook held on a floral bedspread: 'NEVER DOUBT' painted huge in black over pages of smudged pencil writing, 'OK? O.K!' in the corner Blender title bar path: /Auriea/Work/144/MODELING/The Concept Of Everything Divided By Girl/GMH/GMH-modeling/ThePathOfKidRed05.blend ZBrush sculpt in progress, close up: a dark-skinned female head tilted back, polygroup seams still visible across the cheek and brow, hair bound at the nape Joseph-Benoît Suvée's The Invention of the Art of Drawing: the Corinthian maid traces her lover's lamplit shadow on the wall as he gazes up at her Sketchbook 48 spread in pencil: a bowl of fruit rendered in soft graphite, a week's copying schedule (Centaur, Diana, Rivers, Tiber), and a dark bowed head — 'let go of the photographic eye, see the form' Line graph of human growth from age 1 to 18: cyan male and magenta female height curves rising to plateau, with growth-rate curves peaking in adolescence Photogrammetry point cloud of a large spreading tree on a lawn, rendered as 2.1 million colored dots in a 3D viewport against grey emptiness The Voyager Golden Record: etched playback instructions, a pulsar map, and the hydrogen atom diagram on the gold-plated disc Sketchbook 46 frontispiece on orange paper: A. 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Stallings's poem 'The Island of Skyros' copied out under a painted title, with a ballpoint still life in the corner — Ghent, NYC, Indianapolis, Belgrade, March–August 2013 Spiral notebook page dated 10/1/87 written entirely in an invented cipher of hearts, triangles, and squiggles, one line ending in a burst of exclamation marks Cover of sketchbook 16A: red cloth with a transferred engraving of a cluttered table of tools and instruments, worn and stained Keith Arnatt-style photograph: a dense white cloud of smoke hanging between green trees in a summer forest Installation view of sculptures on a black-and-white striped platform in an OSB-lined room: a green curly-haired head, a white Venus figure, and a grey skull cluster Sketchbook 38 spread: a lattice footbridge at Schwanau crossing between mossy cliffs and firs, all in soft grey-green watercolor Subtitled frame from Serial Experiments Lain: Lain holds up a small chip between herself and her mirrored double — 'If I install this chip...' Tiny grainy black-and-white webcam frame of a woman with long dark hair caught mid-motion, dancing in her chair Saint Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent seen from the belfry: the great Gothic west tower rising over the city's rooftops under a white sky

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