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Cover of sketchbook 3: black leather painted 'AURIEA'S SKETCHBOOK III' in purple around a photo of a hand with a chaos-star drawn on it, one eye peering past Sketchbook 45 spread: graphite still life of a clementine with a dried curling leaf on its stem, and a separate leafy twig floating on the facing page Louise Bourgeois drawing: obsession or Confusion? handwritten in red inside a scratchy red chalk frame, signed in pencil Charles-Auguste Mengin's Sappho: the poet in black veils bare-chested on a sea cliff at dusk, lyre at her hip, eyes downcast Sketchbook 44: a magenta orchid painted in gouache and colored pencil against a smoky black-brown ground, buds above and a fainter penciled bloom emerging below Sketchbook 43 spread: graphite studies of a bent leg and hand holding a pen, and on the right page feet dragged mid-stride, toes trailing across shaded ground Spolia-Style-Pelt-Detail E-reader glowing in the dark, thumb on the page: Anne Carson's dedication to Keats, '…FOR HIS GENERAL SURRENDER TO BEAUTY. A wound gives off its own light, surgeons say.' 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 Tiny low-poly skull render, warm bone tones on black — game skull sprite Text excerpt from James Baldwin: '...It was really a matter between me and God. I told him quite a long, long time ago there would be two of us at the Mercy Seat. He would not be asking all the questions.' Side view of Auriea's sculpture Fauna: a child's serene face emerging from a cracked white plaster-like head veined with gold, one long ear drooping, on a dark printed base 3d Día de los Muertos sugar-skull mask, white with pink flower eyes, green petal lashes and red stitched grin Cover of sketchbook 19: mustard felt-covered board with a small window of antique printed text pasted at center 3d bust of a girl with pigtail buns and heavy-lidded eyes, downcast on a deep red ground — The Path's Ruby, early head Sketchbook 48 Paris spread: Louvre notes on the Marie de Médicis cycle and Musée Rodin — 'La Lumière de l'Antique', the Belvedere Torso's influence, sketches of headless draped figures Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in close-up under the brim of his fedora, face smudged with dirt, smiling sidelong Wireframed hooded girl in the viewport, face smooth inside the mesh hood, red seam lines around the face The Bauhaus curriculum wheel: VORLEHRE around the rim, rings of Stein Holz Metall Ton Glas Farbe Gewebe, and BAU at the core Louise Bourgeois's giant bronze spider Maman standing over James Ensor's grave beside the brick church tower of Our Lady of the Dunes, Ostend Tiny icon of a wooden hourglass, sand gathered in the lower bulb Graphite study of a marble torso's thighs, a carved hand gathering the robe aside at the waist, with a smaller drapery sketch alongside Barack and Michelle Obama embracing forehead-to-forehead on election night, black stage behind — AFP/Getty frame Photo-viewer collage of four self-portraits documenting dreadlocks: from behind, piled up close, topless holding the camera, and in profile Mac desktop corner with the IO II and JUPITER cover art as folder icons over a misty forest wallpaper Two low-poly grey toy soldiers posed like plastic army men — one swinging a club overhead, one striding with pistol drawn Sliver of a 3d viewport, three heads at the bottom edge, filename shouting: thatswhatyougetwhenyoumisusewhatiinventyourempirefallsandyouloseeverycent.png Six Magdalenes clothed in their own hair: Donatello's gaunt penitent, two paintings of angels lifting her to heaven, Giampietrino's praying saint, and carved altarpiece elevations Spolia-Section-Square Journal page dated February 19: notes before Las Meninas at the Prado — 'surprised by brushwork, muddy and rough… the strokes being alive' — with two ink sketches ZBrush sculpt for MinoRinth: a child-faced figure with blank eyes, cow ears, and great curved horns, hair braided up into a knot A single seedling pushing up through dark soil, seed husk still capping one cotyledon like a hat The same portrait head resolved: black woman in a white headwrap on ochre ground, after Benoist's Portrait of a Negress Leonardo da Vinci drapery study of a standing figure in profile, the robe's deep folds brushed in grey and white on brown prepared linen, numbered XII 3D render of a purple cyclops figure: a fleshy one-eyed male torso with truncated arms standing on a green-and-blue striped angular pedestal Mac weather widget for Gent: 63° now, a sunny week ahead, 72–77° Tuesday through Sunday Five views of Object 01: a small polished bronze head of Auriea, bald with serene features, shown in the hand, on a black pouch, and beside a leather notebook Jean Fouquet's Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels from the Melun Diptych: the pale crowned Virgin bares one breast amid red and blue seraphim Abramović and Ulay, Pietà: he lies white-clothed across her lap over a spill of red cloth as she looks upward 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 Diagram of the Hebrew letter aleph in thick black calligraphy, its strokes numbered 1 through 10 with pointer lines A tissue-lined box packed with translucent 3D-printed head-shaped bottles, their screw necks rising from the crowns like bottle caps The planet Mercury as a thin grey crescent against black space, its cratered limb lit along the right edge Beksiński painting: a figure with wild red hair and bared teeth, pearls at the throat, wrapped in a rotting ornate garment amid an orange haze Sketchbook 40, Theories of Beauty continued: notes on the technological sublime and 'Beauty or the Aesthetic', with pencil portraits of speakers and audience Sketchbook 45 opening: a grisaille gouache self-portrait, eyes glancing sideways under a dark fringe, facing a black brushstroke and the inscription '45, Mars Black, 13 Nov 2012' Tiny dark graphic of a small white puff of cloud or smoke floating in blackness Three chalk studies on green-grey paper of a marble figure's crossed legs under gathered drapery, from full shading to bare outline Cover of the Ōkami art book: gold wolf linework over a large red sun on black, with Japanese title columns and a red seal reading kizuna Film still of the Queen of the Night: a crowned soprano with a crescent-moon staff rises from painted clouds inside a swirling tunnel of stars

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