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Mike Libby's mechanical insect: a real cicada with orange-and-black wings spread, its body replaced by tiny watch gears and a red jewel Sketchbook 46 spread, mid-May: a painted self-portrait head balancing a cherry, a red heart, and pages of seed, fruit and flower studies — strawberry, plum, wheels and pods — over notes on thinking decoratively Shoulder tattoo in progress: green Japanese waves curling around dark smoke-grey clouds, two red petals falling, partly outlined panels near the shoulder blade Cover of sketchbook 22B: a dark overexposed photograph of a crowd raising round-headed forms, like a procession seen through fog Sketchbook 22B spread: a pencil drawing of a nude sleeper stretched across both pages amid pink stains — 'never before has reality been so appealing...' Sketchbook 44, 'Summer, Jun 27': iris and leaves in vivid colored pencil growing past a shaded skull, journal notes on color and the Book of 8 project, over a printed Feu et Flamme page describing Parc Monceau Notebook spread on the cosmos: paper wheel cutouts, a watercolor star-sphere and a fiery wheel, notes on Anaximander's rings of fire Quote card — Ingres said: 'Drawing is three-fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over the door of my atelier, I would write: School of Drawing... and I'm certain that I would create painters.' Split screen: a folder of vanitas skull paintings beside a YouTube documentary about painter Fuyuko Matsui, a woman in kimono seen from behind Cover of sketchbook 35: a red Moleskine planner with a Polaroid of dried leaves taped under plastic, dated 2008/11/16 Stygian Hand: a dark encrusted open hand rendered in bronze and green, cradling a single brown eyeball in its glossy palm against molten gold blur 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 Line diagram of a Molotov cocktail: a taped bottle with labeled wick and fuel mixture Reference collage for the cyclops: elephant and Deinotherium skulls, a museum proboscidean skull whose nasal cavity suggests one eye, Polyphemus sculptures and skeleton photograms 3D-printed cyclops head prototype in tan filament held in the hand, a single brown glass eye set into its off-center socket Walton Ford's Falling Bough: a massive branch borne aloft by a swarming flock of passenger pigeons, breaking apart against a pale sunset over the river plain Sketchbook 48 spread, first day drawing in the Louvre: boxy graphite block-in of a seated nude, ink brush sketches, and the assignment 'Draw all the River Gods!' Preface page from Anne Carson's Grief Lessons — 'Tragedy: A Curious Art Form' — beginning 'Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.' Scanner image of a dry vine sprig: red wiry stems and tiny dark berries branching off a woody twig on a black ground Chart of the twenty-four Greek capital letters from Alpha to Omega, each with its name and pronunciation spelled out beneath Cover of sketchbook 45: a small oil painting glued to the black cloth board — two extracted molar teeth painted thickly in ivory against a deep teal ground Still life of small art objects on grey: a glass egg with suspended yolk, a black bird, an orange yolk, a turquoise egg, a tiny figure and a white bird pull-toy on a string Sketchbook 44 spread labeled 'Murillo': blue and graphite studies of standing nudes and women with 1960s bouffant hair, one gaunt figure gazing down at right — noted 'Battle of the Frigids, Slovenia' Stage photo from Wim Vandekeybus's In Spite of Wishing and Wanting: bare-chested men in fuchsia skirts, one balancing in a deep arabesque, others crouched and turning The Bauhaus curriculum wheel: VORLEHRE around the rim, rings of Stein Holz Metall Ton Glas Farbe Gewebe, and BAU at the core Low-poly 3d white owl with wide yellow eyes perched on a bare branch, against flat grey Forensic facial reconstruction of Nicolaus Copernicus as an old man with white hair and a fur-collared red robe, made by the Polish police central crime laboratory Sketchbook 48 atelier spread: notes on light value and planar orientation with a shaded sphere diagram, facing a seated female nude annotated with trochanter, shadow side, and 'GRANDEUR — carve into the largeness of things' Quest3D tutorial titled Multi-texturing the Earth: handwritten arrows explain copying a grass surface to a dirt surface with a black-and-white alpha map Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth in a 1990s Calvin Klein ad, seated on a couch in a sheer black dress and heels, the CK logotype over the image Cover of sketchbook 19: mustard felt-covered board with a small window of antique printed text pasted at center A magenta-lit gallery room, empty except for a black doorway cut into the glowing pink wall 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.' Close on the draped legs: heavy smooth folds, the cloth bulk swelling where it is thrown over, and the hem giving way to bare post. Inside the basilica of Fourvière in Lyon: blue-and-gold mosaic vaults, angel-topped columns, a glittering cylindrical chandelier against tall stained glass The Laughing Man logo from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex — a winking smiley ringed by the circling Salinger quote 'I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes' Black-and-white photograph of a Tibetan cham dancer in an antlered deer mask and heavy brocade robes, arms spread outside a monastery door Sketchbook 49 spread of Louvre copies: a crouching satyr and standing nude pulling off her shift, facing a Daumier-like group of heads and a pensive figure resting chin on fist Theatrical scene lit against black: a bald monk figure peers over a carved stone chest across a floor of purple tangles toward a shoji screen with a shadowed silhouette Sketchbook 5 fold-out scroll: collage of a torso photograph, a surgical-instruments catalog page, an Elric of Melniboné 'Stormbringer' text, film strip, comic panel and handwritten x-ray notes with red measurements The Path's graveyard: the girl in red stripes standing small among headstones and crosses under grey misty trees Blender scene for MinoRinth: twelve wooden folding chairs ringing a flat round labyrinth carved with concentric paths Cover of sketchbook 11, black leather-grain board with a small pasted label: 'THE NEW SCHOOL MUST FALL! LONG LIVE PARSONS!' Sketchbook 49 spread at the Met's Raphael drawings: graphite nude from behind, quoting 'keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges' Sketchbook 42 spread: ballpoint Christmas stocking hung from a switch plate, a basket of dried flowers, and studies of a toddler — walking away in a dress, laughing face, sulking mouth Dancing drawing: a sweeping charcoal-and-pencil arc curving up the page from a dense black smudge, looping scribbles at its base Back cover of sketchbook 26: waxed book pages printed with dark palm fronds and crosshatched shadows, amber and sepia Sketchbook 5: dense ballpoint drawing of a horse-like skull in profile, its teeth and cranial plates crosshatched into a black-and-white pattern Sketchbook 44 spread from a private model session: pencil crouching nudes at left; at right three heads on a grey gouache ground — a pink-cheeked profile facing a bald man, a shaved nape beyond 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

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