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A battered TDK D90 cassette labeled in red pen Balinese Gamelon, Ketjak Monkey Chant, side A Sketchbook 45 spread: ballpoint analysis of Michelangelo's Battle of the Centaurs relief — figures blocked into boxy volumes at left, the writhing knot of bodies drawn organically at right Sketchbook 41 spread: charcoal studies of noses and lips, a seated figure, perspective primitives, a red-draped column, and a blue gouache nude marked 'after Carracci' Sketchbook 46 spread: charcoal study of a man hauling himself up a ladder into shadow, and opposite, a white-faced ram's head peering past an ornately carved cabinet 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 Ross Bleckner's Invisible Heaven: a vast curved lattice of scratched blue-white diamonds receding to a vanishing point high above, like a domed net of lights Jean Fouquet's Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels from the Melun Diptych: the pale crowned Virgin bares one breast amid red and blue seraphim John Cage graphic score: fragments of notated staves coiling in a great spiral across the page Sketchbook 40, 'colors list! 2011': swatches of every watercolor named in script — rose madder, cobalt green, new gamboge — beside a rooted tree stump study Detail of a Roman unswept-floor mosaic, the asaroton: fish bones, shells, fruit stems, claws, and a tiny mouse strewn across white tesserae Film still: a small blond child reaches up toward a brown hotel door numbered 404 — page not found Three views of a small book silvered edge to edge: metal leaf cracking and peeling across the gutter of its open pages Sketchbook 32 spread: Eagle Creek park, Indianapolis, 2006 — dark red ink water swirling over swimmers, a duck sketched at the edge Sketchbook 48 spread in pencil: a bowl of fruit rendered in soft graphite, a week's copying schedule (Centaur, Diana, Rivers, Tiber), and a dark bowed head — 'let go of the photographic eye, see the form' Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map: the world unfolded onto an icosahedron so the continents lie as one nearly unbroken island in a single ocean Penguin cover of Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice: a kneeling woman in an open kimono between a samurai helmet and orchids with skull-faced blooms Installation photograph: red violins with their bows mounted swarming up white walls and across a tiled floor, like an infestation of insects Green-tinted diptych: Auriea photographing herself in a mirror on a staircase, paired with a framed portrait of Freud hanging beside a curtain 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 MinoRinth screenshot: looking down a vast fluted brown pit toward a small green labyrinth disc ringed in white at the bottom, a pink light-arc curving across Metope's Scaffold tablet: symmetry axes, the six grid kinds with snap, the draw-shape modes, and the guide tools (ruler, compass, curve, poly, magnet). A tall vessel in Spolia with the overhang heatmap on and no supports: red bands mark the rim lip and the underside of the base ring, the surfaces that lean past 45 degrees from vertical. Cover of sketchbook 13: dark blue-black board with a single pasted image of a theater curtain labeled 'unknown' Still from Silent Hill 2: Maria leans close behind the cell bars, subtitle reading See? I'm real. Sketchbook 44 spread, 27 December 2012: colored-pencil studies of bare feet, a potted seedling and a small tree, beside dense game-design notes on ditching the open world and unrolling the world in chapters William Henry Harvey, in glasses and an American Legion cap stitched with United States flags, raises a leather-gloved hand to its brim 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 Wall text for Example #22, an exhibition of 3D printworks by Auriea Harvey at Kassel Dokfest, announcing her lecture performance at the Bali Kino, November 15 Page 125 of Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist: at an opened grave a dead woman speaks as an oracle, questioned about a wolf whose name was Man New York Times clipping from 1883 recounting Ingres confronting Delacroix at dinner — 'Drawing, Sir, drawing is honesty! Drawing, Sir, drawing is honor!' — spilling his coffee in his fury Sketchbook 32 dark side spread: pencil sketches of family on couches — a woman reclining with cats curled below, a young woman seated, studies of faces Table of the Celtic tree calendar: thirteen months from Birch to Elder or Myrtle, the tree of death, with thorn, heath, poplar, and fir for the seasons Quest3D diagram headed Anatomy of a Nature Painter: a node tree from Start3DScene down to pine-tree surfaces, with textures, materials, and object data circled Painting of a grim place setting: a small head surfacing from a plate of dark soup, spoon, napkin, and a glass of pale wine on white linen Sketchbook 48 spread in graphite: self-portrait with full hair and hand at chest, legs in patterned tights on heeled sandals, a coffee mug, and tiny thumbnails noting 'The Moon' and a black dog Raphael's self-portrait from the Uffizi: the young painter in black cap and robe glancing over his shoulder, in a gold frame inlaid with knotwork panels Tintype-style self-portrait, very close: round dark-rimmed glasses, window light on one side, the plate scratched and spotted Bleached scan of page 45 of Borges's The Garden of Forking Paths: everything happens to a man precisely now, and the narrator inventories his pockets 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 Sketchbook 43 spread titled '5 still lives': graphite studies of a sleeping spaniel, a looming foreshortened face, a crouched nude, and a girl in a skirt standing with a bag Sketchbook 45 spread: graphite portraits of dying flowers — a drooping daisy over collapsed petals at left, a closed rose bending on its stem beside a tulip at right Sketchbook 38 spread: a Tyrolean pine hillside in plum-dark wash, kettles sketched beneath — 'Gutshof zum Schluxen, Austria. Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Besuch!' Sepia museum display of a mastodon skeleton before a painted marsh mural, its label reading 'This mastodon was found in Indiana' Sketchbook 45 opening: a grisaille gouache self-portrait, eyes glancing sideways under a dark fringe, facing a black brushstroke and the inscription '45, Mars Black, 13 Nov 2012' 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 Beksiński painting: a figure with wild red hair and bared teeth, pearls at the throat, wrapped in a rotting ornate garment amid an orange haze Sketchbook 49 spread in silverpoint-light graphite: a mustached man's face, a hand gripping a dark plum, a corked bottle, and a nude beside stacked studies of a bearded head and wing Sketchbook 46 spread, Easter 2013: a smoky charcoal portrait of a long-haired girl doubled across both pages, with planetary notes — Mars blood and bone, Saturn teeth, Mercury brain — for a game about the body Pie chart of weather, apparently of life: Cloudy 47.5%, Showers 27.9%, Sunny 19.7%, Dreary 4.9% ZBrush sculpt of a stylized animal skull mask, yellow-green over white with red striped horns and black flame markings

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