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Gopher-browser screenshot of Dorothy Parker's Comment: 'Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song... And I am Marie of Roumania' Diptych: looking up through an olive tree's branches at blue sky; below, a woman with dreadlocks and a smiling grey-bearded man lying in the grass Family evening in sepia tones: a man laughing in an armchair by the fireplace; a girl bent over her coloring at the table while a woman watches from her chair Sketchbook 38 spread in watercolor: magenta coneflowers with drooping petals at left, a bank of pink valerian against dark hedge at right Sketchbook 5 fold-out scroll: collage of a torso photograph, a surgical-instruments catalog page, an Elric of Melniboné 'Stormbringer' text, film strip, comic panel and handwritten x-ray notes with red measurements Sketchbook 44 spread: pale watercolor notation of the Pacific coast — green scrub hills, scattered trees, and an ochre bluff washed over faint pencil beneath Tiny image of a woman in a white head-wrap looking over her shoulder, after the old master portrait Dark game screenshot: the black silhouette of a ghostly figure trailing streaks of shadow lunges down a grimy corridor Cover of sketchbook 18: a silhouetted photo-booth portrait taped under wrinkled white tissue streaked with rusty red drips In the studio — On Borgo Angelico at 14:09, she found Deep Red—that inward turning, garnet-dark, the colour of old blood pooling in silk. MinoRinth simulation frame: seen from high above, the tiny yellow labyrinth disc and point-cloud tree glow at the bottom of a muted green chasm Sketchbook 32, page 53: pencil figure studies — a man standing hands behind back, and a woman with sunglasses on her head playing a flute A solid red square Roma sketchbook: study of Daphne's hands sprouting laurel leaves at her fingertips, drawn in ink across the spread Cover of sketchbook 8 (1990s): silver paint scrawled with dense handwriting around a torn red 'FRAGILE' sticker split by a lightning crack, above a Vitruvian-style figure in a grid Sketchbook 47 spread: ballpoint life drawings — a bald man in profile, a bending figure with hanging hair, and overlapping reclining and seated nudes Close-up in the Magdalene case: black acrylite and polished bronze Magdalene figurines clutching skulls before a tablet, above a notebook page of questions written in the saint's cave Auguste Rodin's The Three Shades atop the Gates of Hell: three identical bowed bronze nudes leaning together, arms hanging toward one another Printed page on Korean p'ansori: a single singer and one drummer enacting entire epic folk tales, eight hours of song, speech, and stylized gesture Still from Tarkovsky's Stalker: the Stalker's daughter in a gold headscarf rests her head beside two glasses on a stone table lit by a window small animation of the Prophet Ezekiel from my video in this room is a sculpture called PROPHECY. a man with a swirling cloud around his head stumbles around then focuses. Two cartoon theme-park map details: the Cobra loop coaster marked 48, and the wooden Weerwolf/Loup Garou coaster marked 6 High-contrast digital portrait: pale face with heavy black eye makeup and black lips under a blunt black fringe, violet and orange accents iTunes playlist of J-rock and anime songs: Fujin-yo, Morning Musume, L'Arc-en-Ciel, Sambomaster (playing, five stars), The Blue Hearts, RahXephon tracks, Afrirampo Sketchbook 39, digital painting: a bedside lamp with an orange shade glowing yellow underneath, on a brushy brown ground Song lyrics hand-lettered in black marker filling a yellow legal page, beginning ring them bells and ending in rows of small asterisk stars Sketchbook 42 spread: graphite copy of a muscular bearded figure biting his knuckles, after a Sistine ignudo or slave, above a faint pencil tangle of folded limbs iChat window with Ben Coopersmith: pink and grey bubbles chanting 'make it real' / 'make the dream real', ending with quitting smoking on my birthday Notebook spread on the cosmos: paper wheel cutouts, a watercolor star-sphere and a fiery wheel, notes on Anaximander's rings of fire Web clipping titled A Woman on Fire naming Auriea Harvey a digital artist, programmer, and multimedia maven, beside a red-lit portrait of her at 25 Sketchbook 48 spread: 'The lesson of Raphael — you stand on the dragon, your sword is lighter than air', with a pencil study of a standing putto reaching upward — 'transform the hours of your life into art' Five penitent Magdalene paintings side by side, including Georges de La Tour's candlelit versions, each with long hair, a skull, and upturned eyes Sketchbook 42 spread: notes for a talk on designing from emotional experiences — The Graveyard, The Path, The Endless Forest — beside a gouache castle tower with flags and pencil portraits, with 'we draw on the dead body of the world' in red ink Master copy in progress of Waterhouse's Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses — Circe enthroned before the round mirror, cup and wand raised Vija Celmins's Eggs, 1964: four fried eggs sizzling on a grey double hot plate against a muted blue-grey ground Netscape screenshot of LOVE by Group Z, Belgium — early net art by Michaël Samyn: the word LOVE spelled in daisies inside gold and floral frames, hosted in Rhizome's anthology Three-part 3d modeling progress: dark doll face with white eyes, a head exploding in cyan normals-hair, and a wireframed face close-up Tiny green-on-black terminal: 'Everything is Ok — Bonnie-2:~ Auriea$' 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' To-do list detail: 'Decisions on what objects are found in the forest', 'watch the zbrush3 dvd', 'DONT MAKE A FOOL OF YOURSELF' in small caps 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 Lecture slide: three Bernini images — the Fountain of the Four Rivers figure sketch, an oval chapel plan, and Sant'Andrea al Quirinale's facade overlaid with proportion lines Sketchbook 41 spread of figure-drawing sessions: pencil studies of a standing model bending forward above, quicker red ballpoint crouching and kneeling nudes below Gallery corner installation of cut paper: red arteries, cream intestines, and green organs cascading down the white walls onto the concrete floor 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 The Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) with its columned portico, a red cherry-picker parked on the front steps mid-renovation The Aztec basalt statue of Coatlicue: the earth goddess with clawed feet, a skull at her waist and twin serpent heads forming her face, on a blue ground Camera-viewfinder framing of a studio wall: a webcam and USB lamp plugged in, small prints taped up, everything dim and greenish Dark 3d bird hunkered in a shallow grass nest, one white eye catching light Sketchbook 44: a printed page of Feu et Flamme overdrawn with a large sanguine foot seen from the sole and a violet pencil profile rising along the margin

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