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Hands leafing through the Ray Caesar Art Collection monograph: the masked cover girl, a spider-legged theatre box, big-haired doll portraits, a drawing index page Yellow poster in underlined black capitals: You are about to do something you shouldn't — The Game Is Up! festival, 7 to 16 February 2007 Textbook skeleton standing in anatomical position, palms forward, on a teal ground Tintype-style self-portrait, very close: round dark-rimmed glasses, window light on one side, the plate scratched and spotted Metope's Layers tablet: a layer with its colour, blend mode, opacity and relief, the smart-mask generator buttons, and the flatten and smart-material controls. Bare studio with peeling walls: a large-format camera on a tripod facing a trestle table, cold window light, paint-spattered floor Blurred photo of a mammogram machine in a beige clinic room, footswitches on the floor Tempest gameplay: a blue wireframe funnel plunging into blackness, the yellow claw shooter at its rim firing down at red and purple enemies E-reader glowing in the dark, thumb on the page: Anne Carson's dedication to Keats, '…FOR HIS GENERAL SURRENDER TO BEAUTY. A wound gives off its own light, surgeons say.' METOPE paint and glaze figure Fifty-song year-end playlist: UMO, Momus, Belle & Sebastian, Vivaldi's Stabat Mater highlighted, Jarboe, Joanna Newsom, Boduf Songs Panorama of the Markt in Delft: herringbone brick square, gabled houses all around, the town hall at center, children and strollers at the statue's plinth Heather Mason's unlockable God of Thunder costume in Silent Hill 3: a tank top printed with the thunder god Raijin, her arms mottled with full-sleeve tattoos Gramolazzo · 13 Jun Four video stills of the Mediterranean surf breaking over pebbles, sun glittering on the water Panorama on the Gravensteen bridge in Ghent, unimpressed face in the foreground, the castle and canal curving behind, tourists at the rail Sketchbook 45 spread dated 2013: Martha's head bent over drawing at left in graphite; at center her wavy hair drawn entirely in red pencil; a fainter study with red handprint at right Freedom of Teach male écorché reference figure in grey resin: front, side, and back views of the full flayed musculature Roma sketchbook: the Colosseum's arched wall brushed in ink with red scaffolding crosshatch, tourists reduced to black strokes — 'Colleseo' The Diadoumenos from Delos, ca. 100 BC, National Archaeological Museum Athens inv. 1826. A knotty tree trunk stands beside the left leg, hung with the youth's mantle and a quiver, almost detached from the body. Photograph by Francesco Bini, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Netscape Navigator 2.02 splash screen: the white N logo and a glowing ship's wheel over a starry network map, copyright 1995, 1996 Netscape Communications Valentine's mail from Marian Bantjes: hand-calligraphed envelope from Bowen Island, a violet sheet dense with swirling script, Canada stamp Sketchbook 22B spread 'NIGHT OF ME': golden grasses and silver berries on seafoam green, opposite a red spider-like burst and a row of gold ovals circled in silver Sketchbook spread: at left a black ballpoint doll-like head with a red mouth on a stalk; at right, red ballpoint legs in heels reclining from the page corner A Burlington Magazine anthology open to the 1998 article The Raphael Tapestry Cartoons Re-examined, with a pricked cartoon head of a woman as its plate Three stags from The Endless Forest sitting and standing in dark woods, human faces and glowing runes floating over their antlers Night photo of Kit Halsted, cigarette in mouth, leaning on a loaded Triumph motorcycle at a Manhattan curb, lit billboards down the street Album cover of Bama the Village Poet's Ghettos of the Mind: a bald head in profile whose brain is a collage of sepia photographs Classic Mac OS dialog box reading 'Error. Success!' with an OK button — the story of my life Sketchbook 41 opening spread on grey paper: attempts at painting the moon in gouache — 'clouds hiding her face' — waves in white ink, and a figure in a red-pink cloak on a dark thorned hill Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in close-up under the brim of his fedora, face smudged with dirt, smiling sidelong Church marquee for Memorial Baptist Church: 'Ain't no party like a Holy Ghost party, cause a Holy Ghost party don't stop' Finder window 'heaven and earth': cover-flow preview of an open exhibition catalogue on black, 17 numbered photos listed below Sketchbook 42 spread on tan paper: ballpoint café portraits — a man's face cropped at the glasses, and a woman with an updo, round earring and choker glancing back over her shoulder Black-and-white photo of Frida Kahlo winking, pearl necklace and heavy earrings, a wire crossing in front of her face Sketchbook 47 spread at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum: sketches after Titian's Danae and a baroque portrait head, with notes on the Kunstkammer bezoar, Bruegel the Elder, and Vermeer's 'The Art of Painting' Sketchbook 44 spread: ballpoint portraits drawn during video calls — faces labeled 'cyberkati', a bearded man smiling, a profile in glasses, hands, sleeping cats, and a red-pencil profile The same vessel after growing supports: branching oak-coloured struts descend from the rim and from the base ring, merging into a few thicker legs that meet the build plate. Spacecraft photograph of Jupiter's moon Io half in shadow, a volcanic plume erupting in a bright arc off its upper limb Book page of Oscar Wilde's preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, pencil-marked at 'No artist has ethical sympathies' and ending 'All art is quite useless' Two Mexican codices in museum vitrines: pictographic pages with red pointing hands and demons, and a text page with a village river scene Sketchbook 35 diary spread in pencil: the studio television on its wheeled cart of consoles and decks, a book shelf, and a big plush flower against a cube Handbound sketchbook open on a green park table: gouache painting of the pond and trees, the same real pond hazy behind Sketchbook 32 spread from the Met: a falcon-headed crocodile god in yellow, four red Anubis-like animal heads, and pencil sketches of a resting arm — 'a river runs through him' Face texture test: a woman's head overgrown with dark feathered fur, black hollow eyes, wireframe lines showing through Corner of a social profile: '144 friends — See All' Sketchbook fantasy drawing in colored pencil: a pale long-haired figure raising a sword before a sea with a tall ship, a huge face dreaming in the sunset sky Inside the basilica of Fourvière in Lyon: blue-and-gold mosaic vaults, angel-topped columns, a glittering cylindrical chandelier against tall stained glass Collage 'Cautionary Tale': a watercolor figure with exposed bones walking on green ground, framed by torn handwriting and a small anatomical leg diagram Two ancient Egyptian black stone heads with damaged noses, side by side on museum stands — one with wig, one curly-haired

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