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Scrawled white handwriting on black, from Arkham Asylum: 'I don't know how many times I have to say this: I am sane… There's been a TERRIBLE mistake.' Sketchbook 32, Mediaterra Athens, session 1 'Gaming Society': ballpoint portraits of seven speakers as busts on plinths — Julian Dibbell, Daniel Pargman in a Magic Circle trophy, and others Six red 3d urns and lidded jars in diamond and stripe patterns lined up on a dark shelf — Graveyard props Giuseppe Maria Crespi's Hecuba Blinding Polymestor: the Trojan queen in torn white silk drives her thumbs into the bound king's eyes as he claws backward in the dark Wax-pale panel with two graphite dead birds drawn beside two black 3D-printed women curled in the same fallen pose Spolia-Gizmo-Turn Unity editor: camera and sound gizmos hovering over a ground plane textured with a black-and-white cloud sky Metope's Material tablet: the PIGMENT and FIRED preview balls beside the colour well, sliders for roughness, metalness, emissive, clearcoat, subsurface and granulation, glaze flow and glaze colour, and the collapsible material library. Grey Blender wireframe of a bunny-eared girl's head, dense mesh face with two flat ears sticking up Tarot spread on a bright Kandinsky-patterned cloth: a cross layout with a side column of four cards, one card face down The Instagram app icon: a white outlined camera on a purple-to-orange gradient rounded square Diary line in blue ballpoint over the printed word APRIL: 'I wrote this in Darmstadt with a free pen. Michael has gone to the restroom. I'm drinking champagne.' Silent Hill screenshot: a dark corridor swallowed in black, the flashlight flaring gold against a door beside a potted plant Black-and-white hunting-lodge room crowded with taxidermy — moose and deer heads, geese, a pheasant — with a small color photo of an embracing couple collaged on the wall 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 Girl with long blond hair sitting close to a TV, customizing a cartoon monkey's fur colors in a game menu MTAA's Simple Net Art Diagram, ca. 1997: two clip-art computers joined by a cable, a red lightning bolt at the midpoint labeled 'The art happens here' Sketchbook 32 spread: Eagle Creek park, Indianapolis, 2006 — dark red ink water swirling over swimmers, a duck sketched at the edge Sketchbook 44, 'Things that happen at night', last night in Fenouillet, 27 July 2012: four ballpoint vignettes — a hill against storm light, wind through a dark window, a man in darkness, a figure day-for-night Sketchbook 38 spread in watercolor: pale garden flowers in blues and reds, a spiky globe thistle, and red blooms — noted 'Gonks garden' Film still of a woman with red fabric mask across her eyes and ink marks on her face, beside a mosaic of the same image reduced to color swatches Bronze sculpture of Dryope: a nude woman mid-stride with a serpent winding up her body from ankle to shoulder, one hand crossed over her breast The studio worktable in 2017: a bronze head resting in a stone dish, a white David figurine, dark wax figures, a porcelain Venus on a box, and a teacup of tools Sketchbook 32 spread: a copy of Rodin's Le Sommeil in red wash and pencil, the sleeping head dissolving into loose coiling lines — 'Le Sommeil, Monsieur Rodin' The octagonal baptismal font of the Pisa Baptistry seen from the gallery above, a small bronze figure at its center, set in rings of inlaid marble floor Scanned opera synopsis, the prologue of L'incoronazione di Poppea: Fortune and Virtue dispute supremacy until Cupid arrives to settle the matter Morning's desktop, windows fanned out: a 'How to Draw the Voronoi Diagram' blog post, tumblr fashion images, palm fronds, a rose-garden double exposure, a bun of locs Spolia-Style-Cloth METOPE paint and glaze figure Sketchbook 41, page 33: ballpoint family scene — a woman with long dark hair, a toddler seen from behind, and a bearded man in glasses reclining with one socked foot forward Black-and-white photo of Frida Kahlo winking, pearl necklace and heavy earrings, a wire crossing in front of her face Sketchbook pencil drawing of an embrace: her hands buried in his hair as he leans into her shoulder, faces hidden Kiki Smith's bronze fountain figure: a standing nude woman on a pedestal, water trickling from her open hands, photographed against violet light Dancing drawing: a dense tangle of black ink figures looping across grey-washed paper, thin drips running off the bottom of the swarm Roma sketchbook: the Colosseum's arched wall brushed in ink with red scaffolding crosshatch, tourists reduced to black strokes — 'Colleseo' Back cover of sketchbook 17: a Kokoschka Kunstschau drama poster, an 'Andre the Giant Has a Posse' sticker, a strip of red velvet and a tiny yellow cat charm on a string Skeptical Cat meme: an orange cat glowering over the caption Skeptical Cat is fraught with skepticism 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: ballpoint analysis of Michelangelo's Battle of the Centaurs relief — figures blocked into boxy volumes at left, the writhing knot of bodies drawn organically at right Chromed belt buckle of an eagle in flight with blue banners: LIVE to RIDE, RIDE to LIVE Animation frames from Eraserhead: the pale-cheeked Lady in the Radiator standing with clasped hands on her small lit stage between dark curtains The Path's graveyard: the girl in red stripes standing small among headstones and crosses under grey misty trees Sketchbook 49 spread in wine-red pencil: sleeping subway riders, a heavy downcast face, and two men leaning close over something in their hands Quest3D diagram headed Anatomy of a Nature Painter: a node tree from Start3DScene down to pine-tree surfaces, with textures, materials, and object data circled Sketchbook 49 endpapers: ex libris page with a photo of an Egyptian harpist relief at the Met and three blue Met admission tags (Feb 16–18), facing studies after Rubens nudes — Ghent, Paris, Dec 2013–June 2014 Inside cover of sketchbook 20, winter 1993: an inked self-portrait on sky blue under the printed word 'EINLEITUNG', golden grasses collaged over the chest Sketchbook 40, 'Plan V': a hand-drawn watercolor map of the Venice trip — the Grande Canal, Lido, flight numbers, hotel notes, two instant photos taped on, 'we sat here + kissed' Sketchbook 42 closing spread: crayon figure studies — a standing figure in hot pink, yellow and green with rainbow scribbles beside it, and a fainter second figure dissolving into color bars Sketchbook 49 spread: graphite study of a mannerist pose with arm raised, and a sanguine drawing of two intertwined nudes dated 30 Dec 2013, 17:45, at the Louvre

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