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Cover of sketchbook 23B: a narrow old ledger bound in dark marbled paper, red cloth at the spine, edges worn to orange Spread of the Archimedes Palimpsest: faded Greek minuscule and geometric diagrams ghosting beneath the later prayer-book text Sketchbook 49 spread at the Sinebrychoff Museum, Helsinki: ink sketch of a St Anne 'protects against plague' painting holding Maria and Jesu, a light tangle of figures, and a shaded reaching hand Diary page in green ink, Thursday August 27: 'computers take too long and I am sick of being enslaved… no more writing on machines… I love the paper, just feeling the pen on the paper' Book page from Liao Yiwu's The Corpse Walker: an interview in which Li describes the old profession of walking a corpse home in pairs, chanting 'Ya, ho, ya, ho' Sketchbook 49 spread on 'Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection': notes on the Sleeping Venus's winged-skull memento mori and gilt bronze, with two twisting figure sketches — 'the twist' Flat-shaded render: girl's head in profile in a black bonnet against sky blue, a hot magenta silhouette facing her Photograph of stars scattered above a glowing green horizon band, a bright flare burning at the left edge French TV weather map ('DEMAIN') covered in burning-car and riot icons instead of weather symbols — the 2005 riots as forecast Duchamp's To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour: a striped pyramid and lens on shattered glass Webcam diptych in reds and pinks: a woman in an orange shirt at a keyboard, then her hand on the piano keys below Duchamp's Air de Paris: a glass ampoule like a teardrop ornament, hooked at the top, hanging on a thread — fifty cc of Paris Film strip of 3D character models in a dark viewport: costumed figures, a hooded walker with a cane, a wireframe deer, dancers caught mid-pose 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.' Roma sketchbook: the Colosseum's arched wall brushed in ink with red scaffolding crosshatch, tourists reduced to black strokes — 'Colleseo' Booklet page for The Books' It Never Changes to Stop: the sampled schoolteacher's monologue — 'Sit up straight and be quiet... absolutely still, every eye closed' — set as a poem Double page from Hokusai's Manga: sketched vignettes of kneeling figures — a startled couple, a shamisen player, a monk, and a gossiping pair — with brush captions Forensic facial reconstruction of Nicolaus Copernicus as an old man with white hair and a fur-collared red robe, made by the Polish police central crime laboratory Back cover of sketchbook 22B: half faded red cloth, half a smoky photographic print of gnarled tree branches Black-and-white double exposure on 2nd Street: a blurred face streaked with motion in a mirror, plaster wall and shuttered window folding into shadow Rough digital sketch: a grinning bat-eared demon figure in a dark coat with a large white 6 painted on its chest, on tan ground Metope's Navigator tablet: the corner mini-map, the five view-mode buttons, and undo, redo and fit. MinoRinth canopy: the scanned tree bends into a dome of stippled black-and-sepia foliage over the copper chimneys of the maze towers Airmail envelope from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 90 Park Avenue, addressed to Ms. Auriea L. Harvey Palma il Giovane's Jael and Sisera: bare-shouldered Jael kneels with hammer raised, driving the tent peg into the sleeping general's head Sunlit self-portrait looking sideways, long dreadlocks over a black top, a red anatomical-heart pendant on a red cord The Bauhaus curriculum wheel: VORLEHRE around the rim, rings of Stein Holz Metall Ton Glas Farbe Gewebe, and BAU at the core Diptych: looking up through an olive tree's branches at blue sky; below, a woman with dreadlocks and a smiling grey-bearded man lying in the grass Blender screens of a pinstripe-suited character (FeyWolf) with white hair and green cuffs, plus a smooth grey female head below Blender scene for MinoRinth: twelve wooden folding chairs ringing a flat round labyrinth carved with concentric paths Church marquee for Memorial Baptist Church: 'Ain't no party like a Holy Ghost party, cause a Holy Ghost party don't stop' Hand-tinted Meiji-era photograph of two women and an older man gathered around a game of Go on a low board, tea things beside them Sketchbook 48 spread: ballpoint portrait of a bald speaker and a colored-pencil portrait in mint-green shirt, with notes on the aesthetics of play coming from action, not objects — 'don't let a day go by' Blender simulation of a striped exhibition table: a grey torso on a ziggurat plinth, blue and orange cyclops heads, an orange-gloved fragment, and scattered skulls Sketchbook 49 spread: three charcoal-grey figure studies — a heavy nude bending with hands on knee, a striding draped figure with sword strap, and a fainter climbing figure 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 Sketchbook 47 spread: two graphite studies of a curly-headed marble Venus, with notes on Fetti's 'Melancholy', Thomas Boudin, and Coysevox's 'Crouching Venus' — 'she's looking heavenward, sitting on a tortoise' Julian Wasser's 1963 photograph of Marcel Duchamp playing chess with a nude Eve Babitz beneath The Large Glass at the Pasadena Art Museum Stage photo from a Dido and Aeneas production: three women entwined around a spreading dark-blue gown while a figure in white scatters red rose petals across the black floor 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 Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2: the pale executioner in his rusted angular helmet dragging the enormous Great Knife through darkness Near-black photograph of a bearded man's face barely lit from below by a single tealight flame La Vita Nova render: two glittering point-cloud sculptures face each other from arched niches across a grey, star-flecked mist Cover of sketchbook 26: a thick black branching form like roots or veins inked over waxed book text crosshatched with shadows Soft grayscale painting of a white rabbit at rest with ears raised, glazed like porcelain against a white ground To-do list detail: 'Decisions on what objects are found in the forest', 'watch the zbrush3 dvd', 'DONT MAKE A FOOL OF YOURSELF' in small caps Metope's Light tablet: the aiming orb with its light chips, brightness and light colour, ambient occlusion, the environment gallery of skies, and the relief normal-depth and shadow sliders. Three webcam frames trying on a black high-collared jacket in front of wood panelling, timestamped 2008-02-15 Freud's model of the mind as an iceberg: the conscious ego above the waterline, superego at the surface, and the vast unconscious id submerged below Botticelli's Map of Hell (c. 1485): the funnel-shaped abyss of Dante's Inferno in tempera on parchment, its terraced rings of the damned narrowing down to Lucifer at the point

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