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Church on sunday — The courtyard floor holds her attention. John Singer Sargent's Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth: the actress in a green beetle-wing gown raising the gold crown over her own head with both arms Black-and-white café table: a Früh Kölsch bottle and two tall glasses, one full, one nearly empty Blurry cellphone photo from Mom: Canada geese grazing on a sunlit lawn at Eagle Creek, a green pond and trees behind Year Zero at bitforms: the ziggurat of sculptures in the dark blue room, the projected mandala now burning orange and gold around a small blue rosette Airmail envelope from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 90 Park Avenue, addressed to Ms. Auriea L. Harvey Cover of sketchbook 4: black leather-look book collaged with a blurred self-portrait photo in a fractal frame, lettered in green — 'Pseudo Quasi Real' and 'chaos is my life' MinoRinth simulation frame: seen from high above, the tiny yellow labyrinth disc and point-cloud tree glow at the bottom of a muted green chasm 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 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 Mac desktop tiled with video-chat screenshots — a classroom of students on the far end, the two callers picture-in-picture in each window Charles-Auguste Mengin's Sappho: the poet in black veils bare-chested on a sea cliff at dusk, lyre at her hip, eyes downcast Roma sketchbook: a pencil reclining nude, Ovid's Latin on Daphne's transformation lettered around it, and an inked mustached portrait — 'is it possible that in Roma there can be no fantasy?' Cyan skeleton rig glowing over a barely-visible figure lying in a dark bed — animation bones for a sleeper Back cover of sketchbook 18: a photograph of an open hand pressed under waxed translucent paper, everything tea-stained and creased Sketchbook 33 spread, Teotihuacan Mexico 2007: a shaggy pepper tree in black ink over a shaded path, and at right cactus paddles drawn in wandering line Vija Celmins night sky: white stars of varying sizes scattered dense across a black field The Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) with its columned portico, a red cherry-picker parked on the front steps mid-renovation Cover of sketchbook 12B: black board flecked with white and pink paint, collaged strips of patterned paper and a small photo of a white horse at center 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 The Late Raphael exhibition catalogue with a thank-you note signed Auriea, above her sketchbook of pencil copies after Raphael's Saint Michael and putti Joseph Beuys's Eurasia Siberian Symphony 1963 in three photos: taxidermy hare on poles against the chalk-drawn panel, plus the museum label Background tile of thin gold threads wandering and crossing over a white field steps in the making of the Faunette marble. A gilded baroque sculptural composition featuring a human skull at its center, flanked by two golden cherub figures and ornate architectural elements including scrolled moldings, set against a black background. The work exemplifies memento mori imagery, combining precious metalwork with skeletal symbolism in an elaborate three-dimensional arrangement. It is also the icon of my MacBookPro. Book page of Oscar Wilde's preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, pencil-marked at 'No artist has ethical sympathies' and ending 'All art is quite useless' Sketchbook 22B spread: photos of a sculpted head-jar and a brooch-studded form on scorched paper, opposite a mirrored double self-portrait photo above silver foil — 'I give you 1995 of my 23rd year' Marqueste's Perseus Slaying Medusa in marble, seen from below: the hero's arm grips the screaming gorgon by her snake-tangled hair 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 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 Dell paperback cover of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time: a winged centaur rearing over dark mountains, a green face glowering in a crystal sphere Salvador Dalí's 'Ten rules for him who wishes to be a painter', from rule 1 on making gold come out of your brush to rule 10: 'If painting doesn't love you, all your love for her will be unavailing' 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 Four stills: a figure writing at a bright window table, a white silk sail over a dark landscape, a woman by a pond, and a tornado funnel at night Sketchbook 22B spread: red flames drawn sweeping across a silvered page, opposite ink studies of a torso, flames, and notes — 'The Lesser of Many, Many evils, 17 Jan 95' Sketchbook 45 spread: graphite still life of a clementine with a dried curling leaf on its stem, and a separate leafy twig floating on the facing page Live 3D scan of someone sprawled on the couch, rendered as white sculptural relief — 59fps, 1.93 million points and counting Correggio's Jupiter and Io: the nude nymph swoons in the embrace of the god, who dissolves into a smoky grey cloud with a barely visible kissing face Odd Nerdrum's painting The Singer: close-up of a hooded figure with head thrown back, mouth wide open in song against a mustard ground 3d prop: an open wooden treasure chest with a faceted diamond on its red lining 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 Desktop with 3d girl half-wireframed beside a photo of a blindfolded woman, and a hooded red-cloaked model in a second window; a filename rants across the top Sketchbook 49 spread: dark graphite vignette of a seated figure with another curled beside it, facing a bending walking figure with bundled back, a lined older face, and scattered head studies Faded 1970s snapshot of two small girls in white Easter dresses and hair ribbons on a sunny sidewalk, a black-and-white photo of daisies tucked into the corner Spolia-Gizmo-Move Look-and-feel test for MinoRinth: a photogrammetry point-cloud of Theseus fighting the Minotaur seen from below against blue sky, crossed by pink laser lines Victor Hugo's ink and sepia-wash drawing of an octopus, its curling tentacles emerging from golden-brown stains Two hand-painted matryoshka-style dolls with sad pink faces — one hooded in cream, one with a golden bob — above a black pointed hood and a tiny red gem Chalk drawing on red-brown paper: two arms reaching upward and a tilted, smiling face — study of a straining Eros from the Louvre Animation frames from Eraserhead: the pale-cheeked Lady in the Radiator standing with clasped hands on her small lit stage between dark curtains

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