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Narrow interface background strip: a rounded black bar fading downward into white The Graveyard-era prototype: two white vases in an endless field of red poppies, above dark text panels of overlapping muttered dialogue French grammar diagram of the 'maison d'être': a house with arrows acting out the être verbs — naître, rester, monter, tomber, mourir, aller, venir — around a road marked passer Self-portrait reflected in a botanical garden greenhouse pane, camera raised, autumn pines and roses tinted rose-gold through the glass Sunlit self-portrait looking sideways, long dreadlocks over a black top, a red anatomical-heart pendant on a red cord Penguin cover of Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice: a kneeling woman in an open kimono between a samurai helmet and orchids with skull-faced blooms Urs Fischer's A Place Called Novosibirsk: a push broom standing in an empty gallery, held upright only by a red balloon tied to its handle A gray kitten sits bolt upright on the studio's wide plank floor between the piano, its stool, and the open pine door Yellowed spread from Rodin's L'Art in French: passages declaring art dead to modern utility, and art as contemplation, the joy of intelligence seeing clearly Sketchbook 35 diary spread: close-up of a dalmatian-spotted jacket and a zigzag-lipped fish face with a button eye, opposite a loose contour figure climbing 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 AP news graphic 'A broken heart is not just folklore': a grey figure with heart, brain, kidneys and numbered steps explaining stress-hormone cardiomyopathy, after the New England Journal of Medicine Hospital close-up: a hand taped with gauze, an IV line running red past a gold ring Sketchbook 49 page in sanguine: a nude pulling drapery from her shoulders with arm raised over her head, a lighter blocked-in figure beside her Cover of sketchbook 40: plain dark grey woven bookcloth, worn at the corners, no title Hero-machine comic cover: 'The Mighty Splintery Splinter' — a red-wrapped figure with a stick over its shoulder against a night skyline FlightView tracker map: flight DL5372 en route from Indianapolis to New York over a weather-radar map of the eastern US 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 Close on the leafed neck struts: twisted stems with leaf blades reaching out and up between them. The metal ENIGMA nameplate from a German Enigma cipher machine: capital letters inside a pointed oval badge Sketchbook 44: pencil studies after Titian — a twisting nude with flying drapery, and a tangle of struggling figures Full page of the EINLEITUNG self-portrait: inked head over German book text, halo scratched in pencil, flames and torn dialogue scraps rising across a sky-blue chest 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' iTunes 'Enter Code' screen refusing a gift card: 'This code is only valid for customers of the United States store' Potted arrangement of pale green sedum rosettes with reddish edges, one spray of small yellow flowers, in a white bowl Evening primrose (teunisbloem) seen from above at night, two pale yellow flowers on a rosette of narrow leaves, photographer's shoes visible below Grey placeholder card reading 'THERE IS NO BOOK 14' in serif capitals La Vita Nova render: two glittering point-cloud sculptures face each other from arched niches across a grey, star-flecked mist Louvre sketchbook study in pencil and white chalk on grey paper: two views of a headless draped Aphrodite torso, the cloth knotted at her hips Low-poly 3d white owl with wide yellow eyes perched on a bare branch, against flat grey Sketchbook 31 spread: a hand-drawn map of Rome's rioni with the blue Tiber winding through — Trastevere, Trevi, Esquilino, the Colosseum — 'ROMA v. 842006 - 1142006 A.D.' Finder list of a dozen folders all named Objects, one highlighted magenta OBJECTS from 22 décembre 2008 Spacecraft photograph of Jupiter's moon Io half in shadow, a volcanic plume erupting in a bright arc off its upper limb Sketchbook 43 dedication, Ghent, 18 March 2012: a night-blue gouache of star wheels over rooftops, facing Lucretius's invocation to life-stirring Venus copied in red-brown ink Tale of Tales lettered on a banner amid extravagant Spencerian pen flourishes that swirl into a long-tailed bird, in black ink on cream Sketchbook 30 spread labeled 'Hecuba blinds Polymnestor': ink and wash studies of gravestones and crosses, numbered like a catalogue of monuments Grey Blender wireframe of a bunny-eared girl's head, dense mesh face with two flat ears sticking up Diptych: fingers parting hair to show a small cut on a scalp, beside a close-up of a pink peony — accidents happen Correggio's Jupiter and Io: the nude nymph swoons in the embrace of the god, who dissolves into a smoky grey cloud with a barely visible kissing face 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' The Minories vitrine in Example #22: the horned faun bust flanked by the crumbling gilt infant head, a rose-crowned terracotta head with pearl earrings and two small dark imps Blurry snapshot of a high school graduation: graduates in white caps and gowns walking past a coral-pink wall, Lauren among them Purple passion velvet plant, its fuzzy deep-purple serrated leaves overflowing a pale lilac pot E-book page with a note reading What I strive for when I write, pinned to Bloy's description of Huysmans dragging the Mother Image down the staircase of terrified Syntax Work-in-progress collage of Object 02: photogrammetry scans of a seated woman clutching a skull, from broken raw meshes to a resculpted red clay figure signed AU Two stacked book spines misread as one phrase: gold-stamped HISTORY above a red cloth spine reading THE CHALLENGE OF Tarot spread on a bright Kandinsky-patterned cloth: a cross layout with a side column of four cards, one card face down Sketchbook 48 spread: pink-pencil dancer with raised arm over notes on the Musée Carnavalet — 'Paris explained by Parisians, collected by a madman' — and the Musée Cognacq-Jay's Boucher pastels Sketchbook 6 page dated 19 June 1990: worldbuilding notes for 'The SPARE Corp.' — psycho-technics, pneumatics, servomechanics, the Fates as Atropos/Clotho/Lachesis — 'Think about the future' La Vita Nova render: a towering point-cloud figure fills a dark shaft of light, tiny scanned statuettes hovering in niches around it

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