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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 Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Beheading Holofernes: Judith and her maidservant pin the general to the bed with braced arms as the blade cuts through, blood soaking the sheets Top-down view of the Magdalene case in Example #22: tablets playing videos, the wireframe Minorinth head, black and bronze Magdalene figurines, rocks and an open travel sketchbook Logo of the word mirror drawn in thin white rounded strokes on black, the letterforms mirrored so the word reads the same reflected Green-on-black terminal listing: files MissJones and THEDEVIL, then the command 'cp ._THEDEVIL ._MissJones' ThinkPad X201 tablet open, keyboard in the foreground; the glossy screen reflects the photographer instead of showing anything — the Eureka Maru John Collier's Clytemnestra (1882): the queen stands grim in a doorway between bronze column and curtain, gripping a long-handled axe, blood at the threshold Journal spread dated Friday 22 October 1993: a purple-sweatered figure with a scribbled dark face, and a lightbulb sketch holding two tiny figures Sketchbook 46 spread: two graphite dancers pressed back to front, one gripping the other's hip, beside a black gouache figure with a raised brush-stroke arm Blurred black-and-white frame: pale hands and limbs smeared in motion against darkness Sketchbook 22B spread of journal writing with taped photos of small buildings and trees, a pencil sketch of a wrought-iron gate — 'turn the trees to flame.' Typeset haiku numbered III: 'Long cold fingers dipped in blue roses — pry open the red world.' Bruce Nauman's 1967 neon spiral: 'The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths' in blue script wound inside a red-pink coil on a dark wall French TV weather map ('DEMAIN') covered in burning-car and riot icons instead of weather symbols — the 2005 riots as forecast John Cage graphic score: fragments of notated staves coiling in a great spiral across the page Spolia-Style-SpiralStrut Ink sketchbook page of antlered stag studies — one full body with heavy fur, two roaring heads, loose antler diagrams Max von Sydow as Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon, gloating in a red high-collared uniform beside a white rocket in a rivet-walled corridor Concert at a small venue: singer bent over at the stage edge in black, guitarist and drummer on stage, sparse audience watching Sketchbook 38 spread: pencil towers — the Oudenaarde town hall dome, a crenellated castle brushed dark on pink ground, and Bologna's leaning towers with swallows Sketchbook 38 spread: a Tyrolean pine hillside in plum-dark wash, kettles sketched beneath — 'Gutshof zum Schluxen, Austria. Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Besuch!' Cover of sketchbook 34: a bluethroat songbird collaged upside down with a sprig of blossoms, over rosy paint on black board with a red rectangle above J.W. Waterhouse's Circe Invidiosa (1892): the jealous sorceress in a dark peacock gown stands on the water, pouring luminous green poison from a wide bowl iChat window with Ben Coopersmith: pink and grey bubbles chanting 'make it real' / 'make the dream real', ending with quitting smoking on my birthday Hands holding open James Jean's Fables covers book: 'No. 67 The Good Prince' with knight and giants, and 'No. 43 Arabian Nights (and Days)' djinn spread Twitter exchange from February 2012: Auriea tells Hasan Niyazi she wants to make games with metaphysical catharsis; he wagers such a game is two console generations away; she replies 'we will be working to bring the future to you TODAY!' Cover of sketchbook 21A, 'The Disease Manifesto': white moon and streaked clouds on black-blue night, a pasted caption reading 'Night; stars and a bright moon.' Sketchbook 48 spread in graphite: a walnut hanging from its twig with one leaf, and a softly modeled human skull turned three-quarter into darkness, with small sigil-like doodles above Printed page on Korean p'ansori: a single singer and one drummer enacting entire epic folk tales, eight hours of song, speech, and stylized gesture 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 Cover of sketchbook 33: the sleeping face of van Eyck's God the Father from the Ghent Altarpiece turned sideways in its gold inscribed halo, set into pebbled leather and tapestry Handwritten score: 'AURIEA, for two pianos' — September 15, 2015, Oostende — playfully, allegretto; 'brush strings gently', 'choose a string, find the note', ending 'fin' three times The Graveyard: the old woman leaning on her cane at a fork in the white path, tombs and dark trees pressing in, black and white Silent Hill 2 graffiti in grainy red letters across two frames: 'There was a HOLE here. It's gone now.' Cover of sketchbook 6 (1996): crumpled white spiral notebook inked 'Auriea Part 6' over a taped clipping reading 'sex, life, and the cosmos…', dated 8 May–20 Aug Roma sketchbook: ballpoint sketch of Bernini's Cathedra Petri in St Peter's — the dove window radiating over the bronze throne and four doctors of the church — '147 popes' Further along: the Circe master copy after Waterhouse, drapery and throne beasts more resolved Sketchbook 47 spread: ballpoint life drawings — a bald man in profile, a bending figure with hanging hair, and overlapping reclining and seated nudes Sketchbook 42 spread on tan paper: ballpoint café portraits — a man's face cropped at the glasses, and a woman with an updo, round earring and choker glancing back over her shoulder Sketchbook 45 spread: graphite life studies of a seated male nude torso with crossed legs at left, and a slumped figure with an arm swung out along a dark bolster at right A bear-suit sleeping bag standing upright: fingers pulling open the fanged mouth from inside, pink lining showing Snapshot dated April 1993: a young woman in a patterned vest smiles under a desk lamp in a cluttered dorm room, necklaces hanging on the wall behind Inside back cover of sketchbook 38: a sun-bleached Polaroid self-portrait among bare branches, hair falling over the face, taped beside a German page on 18th-century literature Sketchbook 48 spread: atelier maxims on block-in and contour — 'no straight lines in anything ever', 'limbs start turning before the joint' — facing a faint gesture sketch of a striding horse MinoRinth from above: green-edged concentric maze rings curving below brick towers, their walls stitched with dotted purple seams Soft-focus black-and-white studio portrait of a girl with dark marcel-waved hair and dark painted lips, gazing steadily at the camera Book spread of Kafka's short prose piece The Sudden Walk, its single long sentence about abruptly leaving the house at night filling the left page 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 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 51 spread in sepia ink at 'Rubens privé', Antwerp: thumbnail copies of Rubens self-portraits, Isabella and Helena, with notes — 'Rubens cannot make me cry like Rembrandt, but he can make me feel love'

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