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Netscape-era screenshot of a web ELIZA chatbot — 'a friend you could never have' — replying 'Why do you say your whole life?' above the submit box Vija Celmins drawing of a spider web: concentric silk rings and radial spokes in white on black Five Mary Magdalenes with ointment jars side by side: a Flemish Renaissance portrait, a Northern engraving, Caravaggio's penitent Magdalene, a tearful nude leaning on a gold jar, and a hooded mourner in a landscape Ingres's Jupiter and Thetis: the sea nymph kneels against the enthroned god's knee, one arm raised to his chin in supplication, an eagle at his side ZBrush sculpt for a leviathan: massive clay-toned monster haunches with a beaked growth, ridged scar rows across the belly, and curved tusks jutting from one hip Colored-pencil drawing on gray paper: a dead tulip, petals collapsed like drapery over a ghost of yellow Close crop of a portrait study after a 19th-century painting: a black woman with hoop earring and white headwrap, unfinished edges Sketchbook 40 spread: bare trees brushed in black ink before a lake, pink clouds scribbled in the sky, a carved trunk with a hollow at right Small black-and-white QR code on white Unity scene 'Flowerfield': the red-wigged Path girl toppled head-over-heels among sketchy poppies, half the field still untextured grey Sketchbook spread of draped gowns drawn in ballpoint: a dark radiant dress labeled 'A Foolish Virgin' and two pale robes labeled 'A Wise Virgin' Digital charcoal studies of two Michelangelo figures: a twisting bound slave washed in yellow, and a second figure with arm raised overhead Finding the eye: three photos of one prosthetic blue-gray eye rolling about an open palm, white-tipped nails, gold ring Sketchbook 48 Musée Rodin spread in ballpoint: Gates of Hell figures, a crouching nude, and notes on Camille Claudel's 'L'Âge Mûr' — 'marble so often looks like soft skin, like butter' A three-dimensional digital sculpture of a standing female figure rendered in pale gray and white, viewed from behind with arms crossed, a long staff or pole extending vertically through the composition from head to toe. The figure wears flowing, draped clothing with horizontal scan lines and pixelated artifacts visible across the surface, suggesting a 3D model or point cloud visualization. Sketchbook 42, page 66: watercolor and pencil of a sleeper's face resting on a yellow-washed arm, the head faint graphite, the raised forearm a wedge of gold Tekken doujinshi page: a boy reads happily about Paul Phoenix's towering flattop while grandfatherly Heihachi looks on, headed So what if I'm a Paul fan! MinoRinth canopy: the scanned tree bends into a dome of stippled black-and-sepia foliage over the copper chimneys of the maze towers Sketchbook 44 spread, 'Slightly lost': ballpoint sketch of the Heusden bus stop en route to a driving exam, a reclining graphite nude below, and watercolor figure studies in grey and burnt orange opposite METOPE paint and glaze figure Soft black-and-white photograph of a Penguin Classics Ovid, Metamorphoses: Bernini's Apollo and Daphne on the cover, laurel leaves sprouting from her hands Page from a Dutch lexicon under U, Uurwerk: water clocks from Egypt and Vitruvius through Su Song and al-Jazari, ending on sultan al-Kamil's candle clock of twelve doors Black-and-white film still: a young woman in a white nightdress pressed against ornately patterned wallpaper, looking back over her shoulder Sformo-Seam-Keys A pink-and-white peony bud leaning across the frame above a wooden floor — birthday flowers Sketchbook 42 spread: notes for a talk on designing from emotional experiences — The Graveyard, The Path, The Endless Forest — beside a gouache castle tower with flags and pencil portraits, with 'we draw on the dead body of the world' in red ink Black-and-white particle image: an eye-shaped void opening in a field of bright specks, with a 1 cm scale bar and timecode Page from Cabanne's Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp: painting had become retinal — few ideas, mostly technical problems, all painting since Impressionism antiscientific William Henry Harvey, in glasses and an American Legion cap stitched with United States flags, raises a leather-gloved hand to its brim The koer through open kitchen windows: pink Japanese maples and spring green, binoculars and clutter on the sill, a wine bottle at the edge QR code for the ProjectProject work Leviathan Silenus cradling the infant Dionysus, Roman copy after a Lysippan original, Vatican Museums inv. 2292. A vine-wrapped tree trunk carries the composition, and a plain squared strut ties Silenus' lower leg back to it. Photograph by sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Sketchbook 45 spread from the Vrije Academie Wednesday-evening session: graphite studies of legs — a pair bent at the knee in profile, and a standing pair from mid-torso down Spolia-Style-SpiralStrut Ana Mendieta's Body Tracks: arms raised high against a pale wall at the start of the drag, blood-dipped, the film grain in rainbow bands 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 33 spread: two great black ink blots mirrored across the gutter like a Rorschach figure with outstretched arms, faint pencil sketches beneath Sketchbook 49 spread of Donatello studies: St George and the Dragon relief with a large horse head, the pointed-hatted profile of Saint Louis de Toulouse, and notes on Spiritelli and Brunelleschi vs. Ghiberti Sketchbook page filled with dense spiral scribble columns, a small eye and profile drawn below, Japanese writing in the margin Entropy8Zuper! flag emblem: a black pennant with white 8 and zig glyphs waving inside a red circle on black Standing at the lit vitrines of Degas bronzes — dancers mid-leap on their plinths — sketchbook raised, silhouetted in the amber museum light Sketchbook 42, page 14: ballpoint portrait on tan paper of a woman with a ponytail seen in profile, eyes lowered, her seated body trailing off into light contour lines Sketchbook 41 spread: Sunset Appreciation Society notes with a lighthouse lamp drawn in ballpoint, a turreted house, and below, gouache studies of a fountain and an ultramarine stair tower with the persons of the play (Salomé) listed Scanned opera synopsis, the prologue of L'incoronazione di Poppea: Fortune and Virtue dispute supremacy until Cupid arrives to settle the matter Jarboe on stage in Rotterdam, blurred in magenta light, long-haired guitarist at right and drum kit behind MinoRinth sky: a blinding white sun ringed in violet, radiating light streaks through drifting sepia clouds crossed by yellow-green vines Kiki Smith's Getting the Bird Out: a black cast head lying cheek-down, a twine cord running from its mouth to a small black bird lying at its end Three murky frames from Silent Hill 4: a grainy monochrome ceiling, a huge fist against a lit corridor, and a row of apartment windows over a courtyard Soft-focus black-and-white studio portrait of a girl with dark marcel-waved hair and dark painted lips, gazing steadily at the camera Two graphite studies of the Louvre's Old Centaur teased by Cupid, seen from behind and from the front, the winged child perched on the centaur's back

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