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The Mystery, first ZBrush version in mauve: a skull with a small serene face nested in its eye socket, trailing a long bone stem and torn wing of ear Night desk: Wacom tablet showing a painting in progress of a girl in a forest clearing, laptop with the reference scene, headphones and the watercolor tin nearby QuickTime window playing Parajanov's Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (winter birches) over an engraved anatomical plate of dissected legs The Graveyard-era prototype: two white vases in an endless field of red poppies, above dark text panels of overlapping muttered dialogue Cy Twombly untitled work: looping white crayon scribbles swarming diagonally across a grey ground Sketchbook 45 spread: pencil drawings of Martha from above — stockinged legs crossed at left; at right her long hair falling over a white blouse and dark skirt as she sits curled Concert at a small venue: singer bent over at the stage edge in black, guitarist and drummer on stage, sparse audience watching Four photos of black garments: a wrap top worn with long locs, a dancing blur, a sleeper under a black coat, and two coats laid out on a patterned bed Three views of a 3d scan of an Artemis statue in short belted chiton and hunting boots, rendered in a blue and bronze matcap against black Cover of sketchbook 10: a dark window taped into mottled blue-green painted board, an X of white creases over a swirling green orb Side by side: the 1796 silhouette of Flora, an enslaved American woman, on Instagram — and a white 3D-scanned head in profile, echoing her Extreme close-up of one made-up eye, winged eyeliner and freckles, looking sidelong Six panels of charcoal spiral scribbles, black and white, ending in handwriting: 'practise makes perfect BUT perfection is BORING.' Page from Chip Sullivan's Drawing the Landscape: exercises for drawing with a pencil in your mouth, an ink-dipped stick, your nose, and finally with your eyes closed Sketchbook 6 page: cipher key mapping invented circle-glyphs to English syllables — tha, the, thi, and, am, is, are, was, be, being, been, -ed, -ly Looking down at a new dress printed with deer, trees and red flowers — a Bambi-esque forest scene with black lace at the neckline Path production prints: black-and-white posters of the six sisters hung on a line, and the tall Scarlet poster taped up over the tidy desk Sketchbook 45 spread: graphite portraits of dying flowers — a drooping daisy over collapsed petals at left, a closed rose bending on its stem beside a tulip at right A carpet of round nasturtium leaves with a few hidden orange flowers, seen from above Sepia museum display of a mastodon skeleton before a painted marsh mural, its label reading 'This mastodon was found in Indiana' Sketchbook 44: the altered title pages of Zénaïde Fleuriot's 1888 novel Feu et Flamme — author struck through and replaced with 'Mvr A. Samyn', dated 1888–2012, ringed by the year's cities from Neuchâtel to Las Vegas Grayscale digital painting of two drooping peony buds, ink-dark leaves against a smudged white sky A scanned drift of currencies: a fifty-million-Mark Reichsbanknote, a US two-dollar bill, Egyptian pounds, assorted coins, and a pink hundred Sketchbook 38 spread: a great cedar in the botanic garden, dark boughs in ink and wash spreading over water, small figures picnicking beneath 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 The morning after, in overlapping photo windows: a wine bottle and glasses on the floor, two desks buried in prints, gear and a laptop Animal Crossing screenshot: the player, eyes closed mid-song, exclaims Wahooo! in a wood-panelled interior with a pelican looking on White brushed hand-lettering on black reading MEDUSA@entropy8.com, painted like chalk strokes Hugo van der Goes's The Fall of Man: Adam and Eve stand naked by the fruit tree while the serpent, a lizard with a woman's head, watches Eve reach for an apple Sketchbook 42 spread: layered ballpoint and blue pencil sketches of sleepers — a face sunk into a pillow at left, a bald man asleep against his raised arm at right Sketchbook 41 spread on grey paper: a blue circle with traced hands, and portraits of grandmother in a blue headscarf, hooded mourners, roses, and publishing-platform notes below George Frampton's Lamia: a polychrome bust with a pale ivory face, eyes downcast, encased in a dark bronze headdress and gown set with opals Scan of a single leaf gilded entirely in tarnished silver, its serrated edge and stem intact against black Two renders on hot pink: a flat grey slab with two black pegs, then the slab split open showing a black gap — Halloween minimalism Sketchbook 32, Mediaterra session 3 'Game Politics': six conference speakers drawn as ballpoint busts with name labels, tangled cords looping between them Tall blurry photo: a bundled figure standing tiny at the foot of an enormous carved wooden church door Blender wireframe of the old woman's head in profile over her reference photograph — retopology of the grandmother Sketchbook 46: graphite study on orange paper of a marble male torso from behind, headless and armless on its museum mount Sketchbook 38 spread, Oudenaarde: a face rising behind watercolor foliage, gothic church windows, and a pencil driver seen in a car's wing mirror Four Magdalenes in ecstasy side by side: Artemisia Gentileschi's slumped Magdalene, Caravaggio's Magdalen in Ecstasy, an angel visiting the long-haired saint, and a polychrome sculpture detail Three views of a small book silvered edge to edge: metal leaf cracking and peeling across the gutter of its open pages Sketchbook 38 fold-out: a pencil still life of a Pelikan Fount India ink bottle lying on its side beneath the curve of a banana Kara Walker's Burn: black paper silhouette of a girl with braids standing in cut flames, a gnarled plume of smoke towering above her Sketchbook 49 spread on Michaël Borremans at BOZAR: thumbnail sketches of 'The Avoider', 'The Garment', 'The Angel' and 'The Devil's Dress' with notes, facing ballpoint figures from 'The Storm' 35mm projection loop 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 Sketchbook 38 fold-out: a quince studied twice — in soft graphite lying on its side, and in saturated watercolor hanging yellow against green Grey Blender wireframe of a bunny-eared girl's head, dense mesh face with two flat ears sticking up Sketchbook 46 spread: a museum cast of a male torso from behind, modeled in charcoal and white on orange paper, beside a lighter sketch of a spiraling sculptural group Two small painted portraits labeled Bonnie and CLYDE — blonde Faye Dunaway and Serge Gainsbourg-esque face, side by side Further along: the Circe master copy after Waterhouse, drapery and throne beasts more resolved

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