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Bare studio with peeling walls: a large-format camera on a tripod facing a trestle table, cold window light, paint-spattered floor Cover of sketchbook 28: swirling marbled paper in sage, rust and cream, held shut by four pale elastic bands Sketchbook 47 spread at the Musée de Flandre, Cassel: notes on Flemish Mannerism and 'The Flood' by Matthijs Cock, sketches of a jester and the Struganoff Madonna's snake-like sleeve Ruby's black glossy wig over a blank magenta placeholder face, textured neck below Sketchbook 39, digital painting: a boy in a blue sweater in profile, pale face under a mop of brown hair, his shadow doubled on the tan wall An enormous pale pink peony bloom overwhelming its blue vase on a red table, an orchid pot beside it 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 Sketchbook 42b spread: soft pencil studies of sculpted horse heads in the Vatican, one bridled head in profile at right, a second head and neck emerging at left 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' Photo-weave collage: a black-and-white portrait cut into small rectangles and rewoven, scattering eyes, lips, and hair across the grid Reference chart of Blender sculpt-mode keyboard shortcuts: draw, smooth, pinch, inflate, grab brushes and their keys, white text on dark grey Ace of Pentacles tarot card — a hand from a cloud holding a gold pentacle coin over a garden; caption 'Most favorable of all cards' Polaroid from the seventies: a small girl in a white dress and tights grinning on a huge brocade sofa, feet not reaching the floor Robert Fludd's black square engraving, its edges inscribed 'Et sic in infinitum' on all four sides Mac desktop with a giant dark skull wallpaper, a small photo of a figure at a lectern set into its mouth like a tooth Sketchbook 49 spread: graphite sketches of conference speakers — a man in glasses folded into a chair with a microphone, a cross-legged panelist, and a bearded man in beanie and thick glasses A tall vessel in Spolia with the overhang heatmap on and no supports: red bands mark the rim lip and the underside of the base ring, the surfaces that lean past 45 degrees from vertical. Sformo-Numbers Mac OS X Finder window titled the universe: fifty-one thumbnails of cosmological diagrams — Ptolemaic spheres, moon photos, orreries, and golden spirals Dancing drawing: a dense tangle of black ink figures looping across grey-washed paper, thin drips running off the bottom of the swarm Closed exterior shutters of Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights: the third day of Creation painted in green-grey grisaille, the new earth inside a transparent sphere Hand holding a sketchbook: blue ink wash landscape of icy light with a small dark girl in a white dress standing at right Spolia-Cutter 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 Cover of sketchbook 44: a red 19th-century publisher's binding stamped in gold, titled 'Feu et Flamme', the author's name blacked out — an antique book altered into a sketchbook Sally Mann's Virginia #42 (2004): huge varnished silver print of a freckled sleeping face, eyes closed, gallery caption below Grainy black-and-white portrait of young Isabelle Adjani with braided pigtails and dark-rimmed eyes, gazing gravely past the camera Valentine's mail from Marian Bantjes: hand-calligraphed envelope from Bowen Island, a violet sheet dense with swirling script, Canada stamp Cover of sketchbook 25: dark green cloth with a small black-and-white photo of Devils Tower and three red ribbons hanging down Sketchbook 46 spread: charcoal study of a man hauling himself up a ladder into shadow, and opposite, a white-faced ram's head peering past an ornately carved cabinet Still life of small art objects on grey: a glass egg with suspended yolk, a black bird, an orange yolk, a turquoise egg, a tiny figure and a white bird pull-toy on a string The print studio bench against pink walls: a crowd of small sculptures — printed heads in a dozen materials, black falling figures, gold twins, glass jars — with an iPad, a pencil study, and a sticky note pricing it all at ONE MILLION EURO Page from a Dutch Tiny (Martine) children's book: text about Tiny's circus above an illustration of her as a small ballerina curtsying in a spotlight among water lilies 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' Black-and-white museum photograph of an ancient mold-blown glass flask shaped as a human head, seen from above so the open rim gapes where the crown should be 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 Forensic facial reconstruction of Nicolaus Copernicus as an old man with white hair and a fur-collared red robe, made by the Polish police central crime laboratory 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 Nine screenshots from Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors: red branches, faces through windows, a bloodied man, a hand on a cross Book plate of Géricault's Left Hand, 1823: the artist's own hand drawn in black, red and yellow chalk, splayed and shadowed as if cast off, now in the Louvre QR code for the ProjectProject work The Mystery Museum vitrine with a device to measure the scent of a flower: white blossoms sealed in a glass bottle, tubing running to a small wooden pump box beside a porcelain jar Labeled map of ancient Rome: the seven hills in orange within the red line of the Servian Wall, the Tiber, Tiber Island, and the Field of Mars at left Kara Walker's Burn: black paper silhouette of a girl with braids standing in cut flames, a gnarled plume of smoke towering above her The Fountain of Life detail from the Ghent Altarpiece — angels kneeling on starry grass around the slender bronze fountain — framed with a plaque reading 'Auriea 2012', a gift from Hasan Niyazi Duchamp's To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour: a striped pyramid and lens on shattered glass Tiny sprite of a mosquito with green body and spread translucent wings Sketchbook 32, page 34: pencil study of Rodin's Old Courtesan ('She Who Was Once the Helmet Maker's Beautiful Wife'), her bowed bony body in profile Screenshot of the classic Mac OS X Colors picker panel showing a web-safe palette grid, with hex value #0099ff entered and a bright blue swatch above 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

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