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RCA Victor Opera Series cover for Bizet's Carmen: Leontyne Price in large hoop earrings against red, with Franco Corelli, Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic billed 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 A Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console: white unit with two cable-tethered paddle controllers, game cards, and boxed accessories Freedom of Teach male écorché reference figure in grey resin: front, side, and back views of the full flayed musculature ZBrush sculpt of a stylized animal skull mask, yellow-green over white with red striped horns and black flame markings Cover of sketchbook 31: a plain black Moleskine with its elastic band, scuffed from travel Sketchbook 40, 'Going Forth By Day': Gent to Venice by train — a blue-inked station kiosk, and sleeping passengers in faint pencil — 'every now and then it lets out a high pitched scream' Sketchbook 47 spread: ballpoint life drawings — a bald man in profile, a bending figure with hanging hair, and overlapping reclining and seated nudes The Graveyard-era prototype: two white vases in an endless field of red poppies, above dark text panels of overlapping muttered dialogue Cover of The Sandman: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman: a pale arm stretched over a green-tinted castle, a weathered book pinned to a black disc above Auriea Harvey, Iphigenia Sketchbook 47 Vienna spread: blue-pencil study after Correggio's 'Jupiter and Io', museum sketchers at easels, Klimt ornament motifs, and notes on the Secession's Beethoven Frieze and the Leopold Museum Frida Kahlo's The Wounded Deer: a small deer with Kahlo's face pierced by nine arrows, leaping through a corridor of tree trunks toward a stormy sea Sketchbook 40, 'Plan V': a hand-drawn watercolor map of the Venice trip — the Grande Canal, Lido, flight numbers, hotel notes, two instant photos taped on, 'we sat here + kissed' Metope's Canvas tablet: the canvas shape modes (rectangle, circle, polygon), the block width, height and depth fields with the resize anchor, the block material dropdown with its reroll die, and the new-slab button. Black-and-white photograph of a Tibetan cham dancer in an antlered deer mask and heavy brocade robes, arms spread outside a monastery door Grid of grainy black-and-white webcam self-portraits: Auriea in a tank top posing and blurring, a raised palm with VSOP written on it, and close-ups of one eye Sketchbook 40, 'colors list! 2011': swatches of every watercolor named in script — rose madder, cobalt green, new gamboge — beside a rooted tree stump study Sketchbook 45 spread: graphite still life of a clementine with a dried curling leaf on its stem, and a separate leafy twig floating on the facing page 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 Two cartoon theme-park map details: the Cobra loop coaster marked 48, and the wooden Weerwolf/Loup Garou coaster marked 6 Studio corkboard packed with sculpture clippings: bronze foundry photos, Johan Creten and Dirk De Keyzer pages, insects, casts, a blue clay head, 'IT WAS LIKE SO BUT WASN'T' Susan Harbage Page's Palimpsest: black-and-white photograph of a nude torso covered in dark tally marks scored across the skin Sketchbook 49 spread: studies after Rembrandt's Man with the Golden Helmet at the Gemäldegalerie, and Géricault at Ghent's MSK — severed-head studies, phrenology marbles, and the 'head of a monomaniac' Back cover of sketchbook 18: a photograph of an open hand pressed under waxed translucent paper, everything tea-stained and creased Roma sketchbook: a weeping face drawn in red pencil beside a Palazzo Barberini ticket dated 10/05/2006 and postcards of Canova's Pauline Borghese and Caravaggio's Narcissus John William Waterhouse's Consulting the Oracle: a priestess by lamplight speaks to a semicircle of veiled women leaning in around a marble floor Garden corner with prikneus (rose campion) in bloom — magenta flowers on silvery stems among potted plants A thin strip of printed text reading The labours I endured were Two Endless Forest deer side by side: a black one with blue skull face and sparkler antlers, and a red one in a green luchador-style mask Sideways photo in the Pisa Baptistery: the bronze Saint John the Baptist raising a cross-tipped staff atop the font's spired Gothic canopy French TV weather map ('DEMAIN') covered in burning-car and riot icons instead of weather symbols — the 2005 riots as forecast Two frames from Ghibli's A Country Doctor–style animation: a boy leaping off a sea cliff, and sunflowers hanging over towering clouds, upside down The Mystery, first ZBrush version in mauve: a skull with a small serene face nested in its eye socket, trailing a long bone stem and torn wing of ear Sketchbook 49 spread: two soft graphite studies of entwined wrestling nudes, limbs arched and knotted around each other's torsos Hand-drawn anarchy symbol: a rough black brushstroke A crossing through a circle 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 Year Zero at bitforms, the rose-pink room: framed monotypes and drawings, a shelf of small dark maquettes, and a white figure on its bracket Belgian practical driving-exam sheet, 12/06/2014: 'Uitgesteld' — deferred — with the examiner's litany of Voorbehoud and Onvoldoende line by line 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 Valentine's mail from Marian Bantjes: hand-calligraphed envelope from Bowen Island, a violet sheet dense with swirling script, Canada stamp Subtitled still from Rome Open City: a woman speaks to a uniformed man in the street — 'Pina, do you think Americans really exist?' 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 Soft grayscale painting of a white rabbit at rest with ears raised, glazed like porcelain against a white ground The Path: Rose in red-and-black standing in mossy undergrowth, purple forest hung with red lanterns behind her An old engraving of two figures embracing beneath a rocky overhang, overpainted with ranks of falling black teardrops that spill past its margins The Darwin fish emblem: the Christian ichthys grown stubby legs, with DARWIN lettered inside its body and a small fish in its toothed mouth 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 pencil drawing of an embrace: her hands buried in his hair as he leans into her shoulder, faces hidden Sketchbook 40, IGS Cologne, Aug 15: pencil portraits of the indie games scene — Brandon Boyer, Michaël Samyn, Douglas Wilson — around the panel title 'Beyond Fun'

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