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Sketchbook 45 before its cover painting: a black-and-white photo of the plain black square book held at one corner, a pencil resting behind it Old mattress and new, side by side in black and white: the sagging striped one leaning, the taut white Sultan standing straight Still from Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book: a body covered in black calligraphy, arms spread wide under falling rain against darkness The studio worktable in 2017: a bronze head resting in a stone dish, a white David figurine, dark wax figures, a porcelain Venus on a box, and a teacup of tools Long strip of overlapping webcam frames: a woman with braids, bare shouldered and eyes lowered, repeating and dissolving along a dark band Dense pencil drawing of a bare left foot from above on near-black hatched ground, an ankle strap at the heel Four dark photo-collage panels from Ceremony of Innocence: a winged nude under a full moon, a doubled sleeping head, a shrouded figure wound in threads, and a plate of dark cakes groworld research pair: a notebook drawing of an underground city with pheromone paths, and a photo of a pensive face, chin in hand — 'minimise borders and maximise edges' 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 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 Leonardo da Vinci drapery study of a standing figure in profile, the robe's deep folds brushed in grey and white on brown prepared linen, numbered XII Cover of sketchbook 17: cream paper with a small dark varnished window of foliage over faint cursive script, red velvet spine at left Handwritten shorthand alphabet on dotted paper, a to z over their stroke signs, with the quick brown fox pangram written out in shorthand below Metope's Navigator tablet: the corner mini-map, the five view-mode buttons, and undo, redo and fit. 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 Guggenheim Foundation rejection letter, March 9 2007: 'I am sorry to inform you that your application for a Guggenheim Fellowship was not successful' 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 Path's graveyard: the girl in red stripes standing small among headstones and crosses under grey misty trees A photograph of a printed page with cream-colored paper displaying four centered lines of black text in a simple serif typeface. The text reads: "For the blind man / in the dark room / looking for the black cat / that isn't there." Italian grammar cartoon 'La casa di essere': a cutaway house whose rooms illustrate the verbs that take essere — nascere, stare, vivere, salire, cadere, morire and more Kiki Smith's Lilith: a black bronze woman cast from life, crouching upside down high on the gallery wall, glass eyes looking back over her shoulder A dead twig with curled brown leaves on a grey ground, two leaves lettered in white paint to spell perfekt Graphite study of the Borghese Gladiator's lunging leg and arm, annotated 'energy curve is inscribed on the body' Hand holding a sketchbook: blue ink wash landscape of icy light with a small dark girl in a white dress standing at right The Archive to Come in Mozilla Hubs: floating screens under the heading History, Conflict, Social Justice, one labeled Auriea Harvey, on blue virtual ground Joseph Beuys's Eurasia Siberian Symphony 1963 in three photos: taxidermy hare on poles against the chalk-drawn panel, plus the museum label BBC photograph of a black crested macaque crouched in jungle foliage, peering intently into an object held up to its face Codex Seraphinianus illustration: a potted deer head whose antlers are a leafing tree, roots filling the transparent pot Sketchbook 49 spread on Michaël Borremans at BOZAR: thumbnail sketches of 'The Avoider', 'The Garment', 'The Angel' and 'The Devil's Dress' with notes, facing ballpoint figures from 'The Storm' 35mm projection loop Plain dark charcoal-grey square swatch Till We Have Faces, pages 294 and 295: the dream of the golden rams that trample Orual in their joy, and the other woman gleaning bright wool from the thorns Sketchbook 40, Köln museums spread: Roman mosaics and hairpins from the Germanicus museum, notes on Käthe Kollwitz's 'Frau mit totem Kind', and inked towers over park trees 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' Grayscale collage: paper models with pivoting circle cutouts labeled ontology and metaphysics, concentric paper rings, an eye drawing, black-painted nails News photo of pilgrims wrapped in blankets watching sunrise above the clouds on Mount Sinai, paired with a Google Earth view of the same brown peaks Blurry snapshot in a pink tank top printed with a roaring purple monster, mid-gesture Book page of Chris Crawford's definition of interactivity: 'a cyclic process between two or more active agents in which each agent alternately listens, thinks, and speaks' 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 Blender wireframe of the old woman's head in profile over her reference photograph — retopology of the grandmother Wood-panelled wall of framed personal photos — a man in a white suit singing, band snapshots with congas — behind a frosted-glass lamp Sketchbook drawing of a seagull in pencil and crayon, grey wings and orange beak, red legs, faint clouds sketched above Barry back from Iraq: seated on the couch in a white keffiyeh and brown robes, photographed in warm low light Journal page dated February 19: notes before Las Meninas at the Prado — 'surprised by brushwork, muddy and rough… the strokes being alive' — with two ink sketches 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' Back cover of sketchbook 33: a jeweled blue Renaissance sleeve and a hand leafing through a green book, collaged in leather corners with a floral tapestry band 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 Scrawled white handwriting on black, from Arkham Asylum: 'I don't know how many times I have to say this: I am sane… There's been a TERRIBLE mistake.' Digital painting after a life photo: seated nude with red hair, arms crossed over her face, pale body against near-black 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 6 page: cipher key mapping invented circle-glyphs to English syllables — tha, the, thi, and, am, is, are, was, be, being, been, -ed, -ly

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