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Two small painted portraits labeled Bonnie and CLYDE — blonde Faye Dunaway and Serge Gainsbourg-esque face, side by side Tiny dark graphic of a small white puff of cloud or smoke floating in blackness Handwritten notebook page in blue ink headed Museum Quality Artwork: notes on institutional credibility, the frame of the museum, and the aging of bytes Roma sketchbook: brush-pen sketch after Bernini's Rape of Proserpina — her raised arm and turned head, his fingers pressing into her hip Scanner image of a dry vine sprig: red wiry stems and tiny dark berries branching off a woody twig on a black ground Sketchbook 49 spread on small baroque bronzes at the Louvre, 30 Dec 2013: tangled sketches of centaur battles and Ovidian groups, a red reclining figure, and two experiments in failed balance METOPE paint and glaze figure Sketchbook spread drawn from a hospital bed: flowers in a water glass by the curtain, the IV stand, and the cannulated hand with one line touched in pink Paper Enigma Machine by Michael C. Koss, 2003: printable rotor columns, reflector chart, and step-by-step encoding instructions on one sheet Two graphite studies of the Louvre's Old Centaur teased by Cupid, seen from behind and from the front, the winged child perched on the centaur's back Long pink-and-black text conversation about BioShock: 'i didn't find it gorgeous at all... Hellgate <--vs--> Anne Carson. Anne Carson wins!' Polaroid of a foot in a bright red-orange stocking and black strappy sandal, dark skirt hem swinging above speckled lino 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!' Sketchbook 47 Cologne spread in ballpoint: Kölner Dom interior with a red-robed cleric, a Madonna ringed by votive crosses, an octagonal labyrinth and gothic tracery — 'to draw is to confess?' Small white clay maquette from behind: a kneeling Magdalene with long incised hair holding a skull up at arm's length, face to face Attic wall mid-repair: patches of white filler over old yellow paint above a long white floating shelf, bare wood floor below Portrait of sculptor Kiki Smith in her overgrown back garden, grey curls loose, tattooed hand raised mid-thought Diptych: profile nearly curtained by long straight black hair on a fur throw; below, bare feet with chipped pink polish in deep shag carpet Sally Mann's Virginia #42 (2004): huge varnished silver print of a freckled sleeping face, eyes closed, gallery caption below Hand-drawn anarchy symbol: a rough black brushstroke A crossing through a circle Sketchbook 47 spread in ballpoint: the sea stacks of Baia delle Sirene rising from calm water, rocky shore in loose outline across the foreground Two gritty scratched-negative self-portraits side by side: one pale and open, one dark with burning white eyes Sketchbook 40, 'colors list! 2011': swatches of every watercolor named in script — rose madder, cobalt green, new gamboge — beside a rooted tree stump study Cover of sketchbook 13: dark blue-black board with a single pasted image of a theater curtain labeled 'unknown' The Graveyard grandmother's face in wireframe over textured skin, black beret, on flat sky blue Sketchbook 48 spread: figures reduced to stacked boxes ('a lot of talk about magic'), facing a blocked-in standing nude with red construction lines and notes on EROS, thrust and 'the boxes are a placeholder for the space the body takes' Cover of sketchbook 10: a dark window taped into mottled blue-green painted board, an X of white creases over a swirling green orb Two album-cover squares made from Correggio's Jupiter and Io: 'IO II' in white varsity letters, 'JUPITER' in black over the cloud god Sketchbook 49 spread on 'Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection': notes on the Sleeping Venus's winged-skull memento mori and gilt bronze, with two twisting figure sketches — 'the twist' Overexposed café scene through glass: children's party around a blue table with pink cups, an adult leaning over the middle, greenhouse shelves behind Cover of sketchbook 32, dark side: black cloth crossed by red elastic cords hooked through the corners of a QRS player-piano-roll label Sketchbook 42, page 11: ballpoint still life on tan paper — a two-liter Sprite bottle, glass mugs, eyeglasses, a crumpled wrapper, and a TV remote Portrait swallowed by darkness: only the tip of a nose, a bared smile and chin lit between black locs Snapshot of Delacroix's Death of Sardanapalus detail — the bearded king gripping the arm of the nude concubine arched back against the red bed — stamped with a 2001 camera date Sketchbook 45 spread: a close brown-toned gouache portrait of a woman's face, facing a red ink-and-wash figure curled inside an egg-like ring with notes on love, fragments and ruins in technological art Chalk drawing on red-brown paper: two arms reaching upward and a tilted, smiling face — study of a straining Eros from the Louvre The planet Mercury as a thin grey crescent against black space, its cratered limb lit along the right edge Sketchbook 47 Rome spread: colored-pencil study of legs against blue 'DIVO IOANNI' lettering, and a dense ballpoint drawing made standing at Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers — 'ROME III' Dense journal spread: an inked self-portrait beside a collaged red planet, columns of handwriting, and a blue profile facing a ghostly face — 'READ IT AND COMMIT ME' MinoRinth screenshot: a dark glassy figure stands on a yellow wireframe mound, the horned shadow of the Minotaur cast huge on the red wall behind Vooruit cinema screen from the balcony: 'Filmfestival Gent & Vooruit presenteren CLINT MANSELL & SONUS QUARTET' Sketchbook 38 spread: a night-blooming flower in pencil, pale petals reserved against a darkened star-flecked ground Sketchbook 46 spread: sanguine life studies — bent legs and a standing torso on the white page; on the orange page a sprawled male nude heightened with white chalk, legs splayed Sketchbook 38 fold-out in pencil: a Ryanair seatback tray, the wing over a coastline near Bologna, and a neighbor thumbing a phone — 'airplane to Bologna' Sketchbook 40, Schloss notes: a red ribbon whipping between inked topiary and hedges, sketches of chandeliers and a fountain in a room, notes on hidden servant doors 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 The Path's graveyard: the girl in red stripes standing small among headstones and crosses under grey misty trees The Piraeus Apollo: an archaic Greek bronze kouros mottled with green patina, standing with both forearms extended, one palm open Sketchbook 46 spread: loose watercolor peonies in rose and magenta with sap-green leaves, blooming across the gutter of the tan pages Black-and-white profile portrait of Louise Bourgeois in old age, eyes closed, holding up her long-fingered hand like a fan before her face

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