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Sketchbook 50 spread on grey paper: graphite-and-white studies of a kitten asleep on its back, paws curled, with separate sketches of its ears and toe pads Louise Bourgeois's giant bronze spider Maman standing over James Ensor's grave beside the brick church tower of Our Lady of the Dunes, Ostend Wenzel Peter's Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden: the first couple beneath the tree among lions, camels, horses, swans, and hundreds of birds Star Trek Voyager cast photo: Janeway front and center with arms crossed, the crew in red and gold uniforms around her The Darwin fish emblem: the Christian ichthys grown stubby legs, with DARWIN lettered inside its body and a small fish in its toothed mouth Digital painting study in umber and bone: a downturned face after an old master, brushstrokes loose, a brush-tool icon floating top left 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 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 Homestay snapshot from Kanazawa: the Okawa family — teenage son, father and grandmother — kneeling on tatami, beside the envelope back with their family details handwritten Netscape-era screenshot of a web ELIZA chatbot — 'a friend you could never have' — replying 'Why do you say your whole life?' above the submit box Grayscale collage: paper models with pivoting circle cutouts labeled ontology and metaphysics, concentric paper rings, an eye drawing, black-painted nails Sketchbook 33 spread: magnolia branches in contour line budding through a rust-red wash with pale purple blossoms, dark ink branches breaking in at lower left Composite telescope image of the Bullet Cluster: colliding galaxy clusters with hot gas in pink and the inferred dark matter mapped in blue among the field of galaxies Sketchbook spread in ballpoint: gothic spires and hanging chandelier-like forms of Riverside Church, drawn dense and scratchy across both pages E-reader glowing in the dark, thumb on the page: Anne Carson's dedication to Keats, '…FOR HIS GENERAL SURRENDER TO BEAUTY. A wound gives off its own light, surgeons say.' Line graph of human growth from age 1 to 18: cyan male and magenta female height curves rising to plateau, with growth-rate curves peaking in adolescence Small pill-shaped interface strip fading from white into warm grey Reference collage titled sirens, singing ref 1: film stills of women mid-scream and mid-song — wailing on beds, in cafeterias, in glitter crowns Sketchbook 38 fold-out: aquarium jellyfish in sepia and violet wash pulsing across two panels, beside a dark rooftop against a pink dusk 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 Further along: the Circe master copy after Waterhouse, drapery and throne beasts more resolved Sformo-Analysis Low-poly creature textured in ink-scratch black and white on dusty pink: a rabbit-eared armored beast with a raw pink mouth Photoshop layer tabs named: henna, blood, blood splatter, blood — working on Faustina Smooth white 3d sculpture render on black: two abstracted nude figures curled into a ring, one body flowing into the other Journal spread: a crosshatched ink head with hollow eyes among falling leaves — 'what a horrible way to go, to be crushed...' — opposite a page of pencil writing Night photo of Kit Halsted, cigarette in mouth, leaning on a loaded Triumph motorcycle at a Manhattan curb, lit billboards down the street Sketchbook 43 spread: two soft graphite studies of the same seated bald model over faint journal writing — from behind at left, from the side with folded hands at right Black flag with white glyphs inside a red circle on black; red caption reads: -1000 days, -10 hours, -10 minutes and -28 seconds Sketchbook 44 spread over the printed chapter headings of Feu et Flamme: a tonal graphite nude curled around his knees, hands clasped over his feet Sketchbook 40 spread planning the Sunset Appreciation Society game: door verbs, bookmark grids, a purple-clouded screen sketch, and lists — sunset alarms, sunset paint by numbers Copper photogravure plate for Saint John the Baptist held in the light: Auriea's face reflects inside the etched figure's hood, a blue fingernail at the edge Untextured brown 3d man in a hooded jacket standing at rest in the Blender viewport — 144 character work Thin gold threads wandering and crossing over a white field, like a tangle of dropped wire Tintype-style self-portrait, very close: round dark-rimmed glasses, window light on one side, the plate scratched and spotted Garden corner with prikneus (rose campion) in bloom — magenta flowers on silvery stems among potted plants Handwritten notebook page in blue ink headed Museum Quality Artwork: notes on institutional credibility, the frame of the museum, and the aging of bytes Sketchbook 30 spread labeled 'Hecuba blinds Polymnestor': ink and wash studies of gravestones and crosses, numbered like a catalogue of monuments Sketchbook 38 fold-out: a quince studied twice — in soft graphite lying on its side, and in saturated watercolor hanging yellow against green Roma sketchbook: ink sketch of Bernini's Apollo and Daphne, her raised arms bursting into leaves as the laurel bark climbs her legs Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges in her dark marble altar niche at the Church of Our Lady, flanked by saints, candles, roses and pink blossom branches Webcam self-portrait at 18h54: a sheet of handwriting held in the teeth over an open notebook and printed mandala images Glaze strength inside a groove, by groove width and Pool scale Two stems of moth orchids, white petals speckled with magenta and deep pink lips, in front of an old wooden door Poliriea: ZBrush render of a mauve cyclops head with tight sculpted curls and one teal eye, resting atop a striped ziggurat pedestal Maerten de Vos, The Temptation of Saint Anthony: demons haul the saint into the sky by his cloak while below Anthony walks past lions, a devil-drummer and an elephant with a howdah Filmstrip of four grainy webcam frames in sickly greens and reds: a woman at a piano, in a fur collar, resting on an arm, beside flowers Belgian Senate ballot, 13 June 2010, pink paper listing 25 senators by party column; a hand with a pencil hovers over Groen! Sketchbook 43 spread: peonies in a ribbed vase in silvery graphite at left; loose pink colored-pencil peonies at right with notes on Keats, Rousseau, and looking deeper Sketchbook 49 spread: ballpoint portraits of long-haired conference-goers, a face with heavy eyes, and notes — 'board games as narrative devices', 'dice as the devil's bones', 'gamification is where capitalism wants to go'

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