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Still from Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book: a body covered in black calligraphy, arms spread wide under falling rain against darkness Sketchbook 42 spread: notes for a talk on designing from emotional experiences — The Graveyard, The Path, The Endless Forest — beside a gouache castle tower with flags and pencil portraits, with 'we draw on the dead body of the world' in red ink Another view of Proserpina in sepia: the twist of her torso, his hand gripping, her body arching away Sketchbook 44 spread: pale watercolor notation of the Pacific coast — green scrub hills, scattered trees, and an ochre bluff washed over faint pencil beneath Ruby's head front-on: red bowl-cut wig over black eye-mask shadow, mouth open, black choker, on deep blue Face texture test: a woman's head overgrown with dark feathered fur, black hollow eyes, wireframe lines showing through Two-page spread from One Hundred Years of Solitude in which José Arcadio Buendía insists the day is still Monday, the time machine broken Drawing on a torn, burn-edged scrap: a pencil eye weeping a lattice of small blue teardrops, with the words something I don't trust written along the lid Roma sketchbook: the baldachin's twisted columns brushed in heavy black ink beside writing — 'There is a certain perversity to St Peters... The angel stabs you in your own true heart' Book page of Oscar Wilde's preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, pencil-marked at 'No artist has ethical sympathies' and ending 'All art is quite useless' Snapshot of Delacroix's Death of Sardanapalus detail — the bearded king gripping the arm of the nude concubine arched back against the red bed — stamped with a 2001 camera date Giuseppe Maria Crespi's Hecuba Blinding Polymestor: the Trojan queen in torn white silk drives her thumbs into the bound king's eyes as he claws backward in the dark A bear-suit sleeping bag standing upright: fingers pulling open the fanged mouth from inside, pink lining showing Standing small before the Pergamon Altar friezes in Berlin, hands at sides, bag dropped on the marble floor, battling gods overhead Wax-pale panel with two graphite dead birds drawn beside two black 3D-printed women curled in the same fallen pose Arman's Chopin's Waterloo: a grand piano smashed and splayed across a red panel, keys, hammers, and strings fixed where they burst Front and back views of Heather Mason's character model from Silent Hill 3: sandy bob, white hooded vest over an orange turtleneck, green skirt and orange wristbands Joseph Beuys's Eurasia Siberian Symphony 1963 in three photos: taxidermy hare on poles against the chalk-drawn panel, plus the museum label Young hemelsleutel (sedum) plant with broad grey-green leaves in a terracotta pot on brick paving Tycho Brahe's geoheliocentric diagram: the Moon circles the central Earth while the planets and a comet circle the Sun, in a period engraving Notebook page headed 7 kings, 7 hills, Feb 20 2011: numbered lists of Rome's seven hills and seven kings from Romulus to Tarquinius Superbus, with a sketched map Sketchbook spread in ballpoint: gothic spires and hanging chandelier-like forms of Riverside Church, drawn dense and scratchy across both pages Sketchbook 22B spread 'NIGHT OF ME': golden grasses and silver berries on seafoam green, opposite a red spider-like burst and a row of gold ovals circled in silver Sketchbook 32 cover detail: creased player-piano roll paper, its white perforations drifting diagonally across the tan surface Codex Seraphinianus illustration: a potted deer head whose antlers are a leafing tree, roots filling the transparent pot Vatican City, Vatican City — The Borgo Angelico held her in its greenish gray — that muted tone of weathered plaster, the ground itself. Bernini's chalk study personifying St Peter's: a standing figure whose outstretched arms become the colonnades embracing the piazza Gilded thousand-armed statue: a crowned deity with hands joined in prayer, a great fan of golden arms and open palms radiating behind the dark serene face Tiny animated screen-capture: an image-editing window with a small dark photograph inside, too small to read A solid red square Six red 3d urns and lidded jars in diamond and stripe patterns lined up on a dark shelf — Graveyard props The Endless Forest running on a museum kiosk: metal arcade cabinet with yellow joystick, four buttons and a recessed screen of forest Sketchbook 32: pencil studies of heads — a downcast woman at left, and a large anguished bearded face, eyes closed, drawn dark and dense Sketchbook 44 spread: pencil profiles of faces and a hand with a ring, facing a faint mapped reconstruction of Alchemilla Hospital from Silent Hill — elevators, kids' room, kitchen — labeled 'SH1 endgame' Blender screenshot: a girl's head model mid-retopology, orange wireframe patch over the cheek of a shaded doll-like face Sketchbook 38 spread, Oudenaarde: a face rising behind watercolor foliage, gothic church windows, and a pencil driver seen in a car's wing mirror Sketchbook drawing of a seagull in pencil and crayon, grey wings and orange beak, red legs, faint clouds sketched above Live Click Test Night desk: an iBook showing a dark forest painting, in front of a big monitor with Blender open on a textured cube — Endless Forest work in progress A single white dahlia wide open in a green glass vase with sprigs of eucalyptus, on a white table Cover of sketchbook 17: cream paper with a small dark varnished window of foliage over faint cursive script, red velvet spine at left The Path's red room: girl in striped top standing on a dark table in a blood-red interior, black silhouette figures around the walls Sketchbook drawing of heaven and hell: a bowed figure in black on brown earth, flames at their feet, while a distant figure exults under a cross and red sun Sketchbook 44 spread, 'Slightly lost': ballpoint sketch of the Heusden bus stop en route to a driving exam, a reclining graphite nude below, and watercolor figure studies in grey and burnt orange opposite Sketchbook 47 spread in ballpoint: the sea stacks of Baia delle Sirene rising from calm water, rocky shore in loose outline across the foreground Sketchbook 42, page 11: ballpoint still life on tan paper — a two-liter Sprite bottle, glass mugs, eyeglasses, a crumpled wrapper, and a TV remote Sketchbook 49 spread of café and subway sketches: a hooded figure asleep on folded arms in red pencil, a child drawing at a table, and three bespectacled sleepers stacked in graphite Sketchbook 38 fold-out: aquarium jellyfish in sepia and violet wash pulsing across two panels, beside a dark rooftop against a pink dusk Network diagram of red nodes joined by curving grey lines, spiraling loosely like a galaxy on a white ground Sketchbook 40 spread on the game that became Bientôt l'été: door-and-level diagrams, color theory notes on hue value chroma, and the Room 101 passage from Orwell copied out

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