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1479 pieces, shuffled — reshuffle

Sketchbook 49 spread: dark graphite vignette of a seated figure with another curled beside it, facing a bending walking figure with bundled back, a lined older face, and scattered head studies Torn scrap of paper, its lower edge charred: a finely drawn eye rains rows of blue teardrops, tiny handwriting threading through the lashes Sketchbook 39, digital painting: a hollow-eyed figure in dusky red with long dark hair and thin wire rabbit ears, leaning forward in darkness METOPE paint and glaze figure Grisaille digital study of a classical marble bust — woman with headband and braided hair — on a flat pink ground SPOLIA-Manipulator The vine in leaf, whole: leafed stems hold the rim and grip the base ring, tendril curls reaching from the mid-height stems, all in verde antico against the pale vessel. Barack and Michelle Obama embracing forehead-to-forehead on election night, black stage behind — AFP/Getty frame Comic panel: a goggled surgeon in green scrubs brandishes instruments before a blood-spattered map of America, ranting that laser surgery is what the country needs Digital painted self-portrait, summer 2005: Auriea with long braids framed by feverfew branches, small white blooms and pale insects scattered through her hair Björk in profile for Medúlla, her dark hair braided into an elaborate crown that arcs off her head and veils her face — photo Inez & Vinoodh Stage photo from Wim Vandekeybus's In Spite of Wishing and Wanting: bare-chested men in fuchsia skirts, one balancing in a deep arabesque, others crouched and turning Metope's radial palette, opened over the work: a ring of wedges for view, paint, glaze, texture, set, colour, tools and display, with the current tool named in the centre. Sketchbook 49 spread in wine-red pencil: a laurel-crowned nude seated in thought with hand to chin, and a heavily draped figure gathering her robes as she steps forward Sketchbook page filled with dense spiral scribble columns, a small eye and profile drawn below, Japanese writing in the margin White vodou veve drawing on a dark grey ground — a starred, symmetrical crossroads emblem framed by two arcs Grey placeholder card reading 'THERE IS NO BOOK 14' in serif capitals Sketchbook 44 spread: charcoal studies of a male nude from behind and a thigh, with a handwritten list of the ten sibyls — Persian, Libyan, Delphic, Cumaean — and their legends Three Jandek-style CD-Rs on a desk: 'Magick for Cherishings' and 'Magick for Prudence' with pressed-flower covers, one disc hand-labeled 'NOT SURE IF I SENT THIS TO YOU ALREADY!' Sketchbook 49 spread: a red-and-graphite banner-waving nude atop struggling fallen figures, facing a putto's face, a study of a nude's hip and thigh in pink, and a keychain shaped like an 8 Night photo of Kit Halsted, cigarette in mouth, leaning on a loaded Triumph motorcycle at a Manhattan curb, lit billboards down the street Sketchbook 32, Mediaterra session 2 'Identity & Psychology of the Player': Espen Aarseth mirrored top-to-bottom with Celia Pearce, speakers threaded through a yellow coiling snake Five progressive states of the Magdalene etching side by side, the skull-faced seated figure emerging from faint outline to dense black shadow Journal spread, Oct 1993: a collaged botanical print of roses beside a dream account, and cursive on grey-blue: 'In my life the furniture eats me...' Smooth grey 3d male body in A-pose, faceless, feet on the green ground line 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 Sketchbook 38 spread, 'The Roof view': a chimney and a patch of green moss and lichen spreading across pale roof slope in watercolor New Year's Eve tray on a yellow table: a bowl of chips, cheeses, clementines, cookies, and a hand pouring the sparkling wine Tiny blurred frame of figures dancing in a room washed green and yellow Diptych of mirror self-portraits in a white bedroom: Auriea photographing her reflection, then the same mirror with the camera flash burst obliterating her face Standing at the lit vitrines of Degas bronzes — dancers mid-leap on their plinths — sketchbook raised, silhouetted in the amber museum light Four rough alpha screenshots of MinoRinth: wireframe foliage over the spiral labyrinth, a dark scanned beast on a plinth, a black column on red rings, and the green orb under gold walkways Sketchbook 43 dedication, Ghent, 18 March 2012: a night-blue gouache of star wheels over rooftops, facing Lucretius's invocation to life-stirring Venus copied in red-brown ink Sketchbook spread in red and blue ballpoint: a couple with a baby on a patterned couch, and opposite, a figure seen from behind in a white slip Small cut-out sprite of a low-poly man in brown jacket and jeans running away, seen from behind — Harry Mason of Silent Hill 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 32, Mediaterra day 3 'Game Art': speaker portraits including Martin Pichlmair in a yellow shirt and star collar labeled 'PWNED', notes on appropriation art A branch of lunaria held before a lamp, its papery translucent seed pods glowing amber and pearl Tycho Brahe's geoheliocentric diagram: the Moon circles the central Earth while the planets and a comet circle the Sun, in a period engraving The morning after, in overlapping photo windows: a wine bottle and glasses on the floor, two desks buried in prints, gear and a laptop Artefact Festival 2006 posters spread on a green sofa, each showing a misty forest of tall bare trees with a tiny red figure The Path work-in-progress: dark girl with striped top in an overexposed poppy field, a pale scarecrow figure looming behind her A finished dessert plate: strawberry-red smears, one strawberry crown left, spoon and fork crossed The Graveyard in black and white: the old woman with her cane walking the central path between crosses toward the chapel A bear-suit sleeping bag standing upright: fingers pulling open the fanged mouth from inside, pink lining showing Black-and-white photograph of two visitors silhouetted before a museum diorama of New Amsterdam: Lenape men with clubs face Dutch colonists by a windmill and stone house Sketchbook 49 spread on small baroque bronzes at the Louvre, 30 Dec 2013: tangled sketches of centaur battles and Ovidian groups, a red reclining figure, and two experiments in failed balance Sketchbook 42 spread: ballpoint profile studies — a face with pursed lips filling the left page, overlapping fragments of eyes, noses, lips and small hands on the right Studio corner crowded with wood frames holding small game-screenshot prints, art postcards pinned above a green cutting mat Sketchbook 42, page 69: small gouache of a nude with a purple headwrap crouching against a dark brown ground, seen from behind, beside faint pencil thumbnails

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