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Small grainy black-and-white photo of Sonic Youth: Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Steve Shelley posed against a dark wall Book spread of Kafka's short prose piece The Sudden Walk, its single long sentence about abruptly leaving the house at night filling the left page Journal page: the Parsons 'fine arts' senior thesis exhibition card, 1993, above taped photo strips of small sculptures — 'this was a very good idea' in pencil The Graveyard-era prototype: two white vases in an endless field of red poppies, above dark text panels of overlapping muttered dialogue Thirty-minute digital portrait study: a scowling face lit blue from one side against dark red, white tank top roughed in Edvard Munch's Puberty: a naked adolescent girl sits on the edge of her bed, arms crossed over her lap, a heavy shadow looming beside her Tiny blurred frame of figures dancing in a room washed green and yellow Photographed text titled Telling of the Bees: the custom of informing hives of a death in the household, whispering thrice that their mistress is dead Sketchbook 41, page 92: layered ballpoint study of a seated figure with rolled sleeves, hands clasping reins or cords, with small thumbnails noting 'full scene VR view' and jump points Novelty phone-message slip headed 'SADE (Shah-day)': 'While you were listening to Sade's DIAMOND LIFE album', with checkboxes like 'Phoned' and 'Wants to see you' over her faint portrait Black-and-white photograph of a Tibetan cham dancer in an antlered deer mask and heavy brocade robes, arms spread outside a monastery door Sketchbook 45 spread: graphite life studies of a seated male nude torso with crossed legs at left, and a slumped figure with an arm swung out along a dark bolster at right Letter from Stad Gent, 8 December 2008: the nationality declaration accepted — Belgian nationality as of 3 December 2008 Church on sunday — The courtyard floor holds her attention. Sketchbook pencil portrait of a young man in vest and shirt looking down, arms crossed at the wrists, signed in cursive 'Love Truitt' Broken 3d export: a pink low-poly suited figure with an enormous black cylinder skewered diagonally through its head to the floor Split screen: a folder of vanitas skull paintings beside a YouTube documentary about painter Fuyuko Matsui, a woman in kimono seen from behind Notebook page 'The ultimate FINAL to do list' with nearly every line struck through in red, 'DONE!' scrawled at top 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. Early game avatar: a low-poly nude brown-skinned woman with black bobbed hair, arms at her sides, texture seams still showing, on a purple base Dutch growth chart of pale blue body silhouettes from two-month foetus to 25-year-old adult, heads aligned along red horizontal lines Group photograph of the Bauhaus masters in coats and hats on the Dessau roof — Gropius, Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy among them Cover of sketchbook 28: swirling marbled paper in sage, rust and cream, held shut by four pale elastic bands 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 The Fountain of Life detail from the Ghent Altarpiece — angels kneeling on starry grass around the slender bronze fountain — framed with a plaque reading 'Auriea 2012', a gift from Hasan Niyazi Back cover of Huysmans' Against Nature (Oxford, tr. Mauldon): 'It will be the biggest fiasco of the year — but I don't care a damn!' Four video stills of the Mediterranean surf breaking over pebbles, sun glittering on the water The Graveyard: the old woman leaning on her cane at a fork in the white path, tombs and dark trees pressing in, black and white Sketchbook spread: pencil study of a shaggy black-and-white wolf standing guard, a red-hooded shape and a small drawn hand on the facing page 3d bust of a girl with pigtail buns and heavy-lidded eyes, downcast on a deep red ground — The Path's Ruby, early head 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 Five studio photos of Saint John the Baptist growing from a skeletal clay armature to a full figure raising a shell, long-haired and bearded, against red curtains Louvre sketchbook study in pencil and white chalk on grey paper: two views of a headless draped Aphrodite torso, the cloth knotted at her hips Still-life painting: a human skull in profile shelved inside a rough wooden box beside a small glass bottle of clear water Alone on a bench in a crimson museum hall, hood up, notebook in hand, before Rubens' vast Martyrdom of Saint Livinus Black-and-white diptych: blurred lattice shadow and a glass on a table above; a kitchen-roll on the windowsill overlooking a bare Gent courtyard below Vatican City, Vatican City — The Borgo Angelico held her in its greenish gray — that muted tone of weathered plaster, the ground itself. Cover of sketchbook 40: plain dark grey woven bookcloth, worn at the corners, no title Metope's Tools tablet: a grid of twenty shape tools (Pad, Coil, Stylus, Knife, Rake, Rib, Smooth, Smear, Pinch, Inflate, Scrape, Move, Crease, Chatter, Gnomon, Moulding, Drill, Extrude, Imprint, Stamp), the Relax Mesh and Rebuild Mesh buttons, and the brush sliders below. Ghillie-suit procession: nine figures costumed head-to-toe in moss, straw and evergreen standing on an alpine meadow Auriea's bare feet on a wooden floor beside two HTC Vive trackers with ankle straps, ready to be worn for full-body VR Italian grammar cartoon 'La casa di essere': a cutaway house whose rooms illustrate the verbs that take essere — nascere, stare, vivere, salire, cadere, morire and more Path character sheet '6_Scarlet': polaroids of the eldest sister, red-bunned and severe, painted portrait style, with a forest reference photo Sketchbook 40, journal page copying Anne Carson: 'Drawing is quite, quite naked...' with notes on drawing, honesty, and modelling a hand in 3D, a wiry hand sketched above French poster for Wong Kar Wai's 2046: an embrace in black over neon Hong Kong signage, the title in gold A Burlington Magazine anthology open to the 1998 article The Raphael Tapestry Cartoons Re-examined, with a pricked cartoon head of a woman as its plate 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 Two figures on the wide wet sand of the Belgian coast under a heavy sky, a rainbow arcing down toward distant apartment blocks Cover of sketchbook 4: black leather-look book collaged with a blurred self-portrait photo in a fractal frame, lettered in green — 'Pseudo Quasi Real' and 'chaos is my life' 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

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