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Printed card on the 19th-century 'Language of the Fan', pairing gestures with meanings — 'With handle to lips: Kiss me', 'Fanning fast: I am engaged', 'Open wide: Wait for me' Sketchbook 32, page 53: pencil figure studies — a man standing hands behind back, and a woman with sunglasses on her head playing a flute Sketchbook 32 spread in black ink: Central Park trees at night seen from the Natural History Museum steps, canopies blotted heavy against a pale sky Four Dior haute couture looks by Galliano, Madame Butterfly themed: Hokusai-wave gown, kimono silhouettes and origami tailoring Screenshot from Cricoterie, Tale of Tales' Tadeusz Kantor-inspired VR: a horse skeleton puppet, a toppled mannequin and a black figure among doors and a cage on a dark stage Cover of sketchbook 3: black leather painted 'AURIEA'S SKETCHBOOK III' in purple around a photo of a hand with a chaos-star drawn on it, one eye peering past Three murky frames from Silent Hill 4: a grainy monochrome ceiling, a huge fist against a lit corridor, and a row of apartment windows over a courtyard Sketchbook 46 spread: orchid buds barely open, purple and green against a brown wash — 'things that are not, that cannot, but must be' — beside a chalk study of a weathered column and rooftop 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' Catalogue text inventorying Louise Bourgeois's 1997 cell Passage Dangereux, room by room: cuffs, mirrors, hanging chairs, glass spheres, a bronze bull White vodou veve drawing on a dark grey ground — a starred, symmetrical crossroads emblem framed by two arcs Portrait swallowed by darkness: only the tip of a nose, a bared smile and chin lit between black locs Vitrine close-up from Example #22: the horned white faun bust The Minories among heads — a weathered infant head, a tiny imp, a rose-crowned terracotta head on an alabaster stem Back cover of sketchbook 22B: half faded red cloth, half a smoky photographic print of gnarled tree branches Plain web background graphic: a flat grey field rising on a shallow diagonal into white at the top Sketchbook 22B spread: red flames drawn sweeping across a silvered page, opposite ink studies of a torso, flames, and notes — 'The Lesser of Many, Many evils, 17 Jan 95' Sketchbook 42 closing spread: crayon figure studies — a standing figure in hot pink, yellow and green with rainbow scribbles beside it, and a fainter second figure dissolving into color bars Paper background texture shaded all over in soft grey pencil strokes Two-page spread from One Hundred Years of Solitude in which José Arcadio Buendía insists the day is still Monday, the time machine broken Roma sketchbook: dense ink trees in the Vatican gardens under writing about tourism and dedication — 'genetics be damned in my spirals' 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 Tiny animated screen-capture: an image-editing window with a small dark photograph inside, too small to read Sketchbook 46 spread: 'Frequently I am quite torn apart by anger' — a ballpoint figure collapsing amid scribbled darkness beside an up-flung arm drawn in graphite, a bare foot planted below Blingee'd black-and-white Crater Lake photo: animated stars and sparkles, 'Merry Christmas!' stamped in the corner Detail of a digital painting after Monet: loose pink and white impasto strokes of water lilies floating on vertical blue-green water, with dark red foliage at right Sketchbook spread in ballpoint: gothic spires and hanging chandelier-like forms of Riverside Church, drawn dense and scratchy across both pages METOPE paint and glaze figure Digital painted self-portrait, summer 2005: Auriea with long braids framed by feverfew branches, small white blooms and pale insects scattered through her hair Sketchbook 49 spread at Chicago's Driehaus Museum: sanguine studies of Tiffany bronze candlesticks and a caryatid ('Renaissance + Japanese motifs combined'), facing graphite silhouettes of cinnabar lacquer and skyline finials Caravaggio's Judith Beheading Holofernes: Judith in white drives the sword through the roaring general's neck, blood jetting, an old maidservant waiting with the sack Cy Twombly untitled work: looping white crayon scribbles swarming diagonally across a grey ground Spy Test Sketchbook 48 spread in ballpoint: three studies after Rodin marbles — a kneeling nude from behind, a bending clothed figure, and the fallen caryatid carrying her stone — 'they live, they breathe' Animal Crossing screenshot: the player, eyes closed mid-song, exclaims Wahooo! in a wood-panelled interior with a pelican looking on Photograph of stars scattered above a glowing green horizon band, a bright flare burning at the left edge 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 Torn scrap of paper, its lower edge charred: a finely drawn eye rains rows of blue teardrops, tiny handwriting threading through the lashes Louise Bourgeois marble sculpture: a torso-like form clustered with smooth white breast shapes, carved from a rough-hewn block Francesca Woodman's Blueprint for a Temple: a large blue diazotype collage assembling photographed caryatids and Greek-key friezes into a temple facade Sketchbook 43 spread titled '5 still lives': graphite studies of a sleeping spaniel, a looming foreshortened face, a crouched nude, and a girl in a skirt standing with a bag Text excerpt from James Baldwin: '...It was really a matter between me and God. I told him quite a long, long time ago there would be two of us at the Mercy Seat. He would not be asking all the questions.' Sketchbook 42, page 24: pencil still life — a canning jar and a stack of magazines topped by a Glamour 'New Year's Special' issue with three laughing faces on the cover 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 Sideways photo in the Pisa Baptistery: the bronze Saint John the Baptist raising a cross-tipped staff atop the font's spired Gothic canopy Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in close-up under the brim of his fedora, face smudged with dirt, smiling sidelong Diagram of the Hebrew letter aleph in thick black calligraphy, its strokes numbered 1 through 10 with pointer lines Hero-machine comic cover: 'The Mighty Splintery Splinter' — a red-wrapped figure with a stick over its shoulder against a night skyline A sculptural bust featuring a bearded male figure in white marble or plaster, positioned in profile against a weathered green patina base with black and gold-spotted stone, set against a black background. The figure's classical features and flowing beard are rendered in sharp detail, while the contrasting materials and oxidized finish suggest an aged or intentionally antiqued decorative object. Sketchbook 49 spread: graphite study of a mannerist pose with arm raised, and a sanguine drawing of two intertwined nudes dated 30 Dec 2013, 17:45, at the Louvre Robert Fludd's black square engraving, its edges inscribed 'Et sic in infinitum' on all four sides

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