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Sketchbook 41 spread of figure-drawing sessions: pencil studies of a standing model bending forward above, quicker red ballpoint crouching and kneeling nudes below An NEC monitor displaying a grey 3D sphere studded all over with fragments of buildings and figures, like a small ruined planet Blurred black-and-white frame: pale hands and limbs smeared in motion against darkness Sketchbook 42 spread: ballpoint portraits on tan paper of a sleeping woman with braided hair, eyes closed, and a baby looking down, mouth open mid-babble Hero-machine comic cover: 'The Mighty Splintery Splinter' — a red-wrapped figure with a stick over its shoulder against a night skyline Early Netherlandish panel of Eve holding the apple beside the tree, the serpent coiled up the trunk wearing a woman's golden-haired face, the paint finely crackled Vitrine close-up from Example #22: the horned white faun bust The Minories among heads — a weathered infant head, a tiny imp, a rose-crowned terracotta head on an alabaster stem Sketchbook 44: pencil drawing of the ruined castle of Fenouillet on its rocky hilltop, drawn as an outline map of boulders with touches of violet ink Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in close-up under the brim of his fedora, face smudged with dirt, smiling sidelong Sketchbook 46 spread of Metropolitan Museum notes: Egyptian scarab rings and a blue-scarab necklace in colored pencil, notes on the Hudson River School, Church's Heart of the Andes and Tiepolo, with Eros, Pothos and Himeros listed Cover of sketchbook 5 (1996): black spiral book chalked 'Pseudo Quasi Real — Auriea Sketchbook V' with a starburst doodle around a small photo of a torso Odd Nerdrum painting: close-up of a hooded figure with head tipped back and mouth wide open, painted in warm ochres against a pale ground Metope's Layers tablet: a layer with its colour, blend mode, opacity and relief, the smart-mask generator buttons, and the flatten and smart-material controls. Six red 3d urns and lidded jars in diamond and stripe patterns lined up on a dark shelf — Graveyard props Broken 3d export: a pink low-poly suited figure with an enormous black cylinder skewered diagonally through its head to the floor The Path logo: scratchy black hand-drawn capitals reading THE PATH, 'a tale of tales' small beneath Sketchbook 45 spread: a close brown-toned gouache portrait of a woman's face, facing a red ink-and-wash figure curled inside an egg-like ring with notes on love, fragments and ruins in technological art Two Louvre photos: a gilded ceiling crowded with ornament and putti, and Raphael's La Belle Jardinière with a sketchbook of tumbling cube studies held before it Sketchbook 39, digital painting: a boy in a blue sweater in profile, pale face under a mop of brown hair, his shadow doubled on the tan wall 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' Sketchbook 40: notes from the Theories of Beauty symposium in Leuven under a blue KASK Cinema flyer, with a pencil drawing of a woman reading beside an hourglass Animation frames from Eraserhead: the pale-cheeked Lady in the Radiator standing with clasped hands on her small lit stage between dark curtains Zoe Leonard's typewritten text I want a president, 1992, beginning "I want a dyke for president" and ending on presidents who are always clowns, liars, thieves The Instagram app icon: a white outlined camera on a purple-to-orange gradient rounded square Subtitled frame from Serial Experiments Lain: Lain holds up a small chip between herself and her mirrored double — 'If I install this chip...' Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work — the classic cheat sheet of comic framings: big head, extreme close-up, silhouette, down shot, L-shape and the rest A grey Russian Blue mother cat nursing three newborn kittens on white towels in a basket 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 Webcam self-portrait at 18h54: a sheet of handwriting held in the teeth over an open notebook and printed mandala images Two finds: enamel 'Drukkerij St Joris P.V.B.A.' printers' sign, and an office-door flyer — 'ART PROBLEMS? Seek professional advice…' Natal chart drawn in vintage Mac astrology software, cyan double wheel with red and green aspect lines, tables of elements and aspects around it 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 38 spread, Oudenaarde: a face rising behind watercolor foliage, gothic church windows, and a pencil driver seen in a car's wing mirror Vatican City, Vatican City — The Borgo Angelico held her in its greenish gray — that muted tone of weathered plaster, the ground itself. Sepia museum display of a mastodon skeleton before a painted marsh mural, its label reading 'This mastodon was found in Indiana' 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 44 spread: Mary Flanagan's IndieCade keynote — her full-length portrait beside her list from Jacquard to Gygax — facing notes from Richard Lemarchand's USC class with studies of clasped hands and a wire tangle Page 12 of Hiroshima Mon Amour: in the café she tells why she went mad in Nevers — her head shaved in 1944 for loving a German soldier — every mention of Nevers highlighted Sketchbook 43 spread from a hospital room, 1 June 2012: pencil studies of the draped bedside table, IV drip lines, a faucet, and a hand cradling a heart-rate clip — 'Oh Venus, where did I go wrong?' Tiny dark graphic of a small white puff of cloud or smoke floating in blackness Pie chart of weather, apparently of life: Cloudy 47.5%, Showers 27.9%, Sunny 19.7%, Dreary 4.9% Documentation of the ZBrush Spotlight dial: a dark ring of twenty-six numbered icons with a contents list from Rotate and Scale through Smudge, Hue, and Paint Andrew Wyeth's Barracoon: a nude figure lies asleep face down on white bedding against a scumbled umber wall Installation photograph: red violins with their bows mounted swarming up white walls and across a tiled floor, like an infestation of insects Sketchbook 49 spread on the Musée d'Orsay's 'Masculin/Masculin': notes on Guido Reni's Sebastian, the Barberini Faun, Ron Mueck and Mercié's David, with sketches of a lounging and seated male nudes A feverfew plant (moederkruid) with small white double blooms and green ferny leaves against a peeling whitewashed wall Tiny dark sketch of three standing figures side by side, scratched out of black ink Standing hand-on-hip in red shirt and gold pleated skirt beside a marble Asklepios, in front of a frescoed landscape wall in Rome Victor Hugo's ink and sepia-wash drawing of an octopus, its curling tentacles emerging from golden-brown stains Two clear printed head-bottles beside their signed label: 'Object #3 — Head of a Negress in the Form of a Plastic Vessel, 2018, Auriea XLVI. This head has been checked for leaks, but be careful.'

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