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Anne Carson, 'Could I': 'If you are not the free person you want to be, you must find a place to tell the truth about that… The point is not to find a reader, the point is the telling itself.' Four photos of black garments: a wrap top worn with long locs, a dancing blur, a sleeper under a black coat, and two coats laid out on a patterned bed 3d modeling tutorial on limb deformation: three wireframe cylinders comparing edge-loop layouts that keep elbows and knees from collapsing Sketchbook 32 spread: a bushy tree in dried-blood red wash, and opposite, a chestnut tree in sanguine beside an Art Nouveau gate — 'with Laura in the park (citadel), 2006' QuickTime windows of dance-studio clips: a dancer improvising alone on a black floor marked with tape, seen from the corner — Drama Princess motion reference Tiny pixel-art GIF of a dark-haired woman in a black top and red skirt, one arm raised — the classic animated dancing girl of the early web 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 Self-portrait reflected in a botanical garden greenhouse pane, camera raised, autumn pines and roses tinted rose-gold through the glass Quest3D diagram headed Anatomy of a Nature Painter: a node tree from Start3DScene down to pine-tree surfaces, with textures, materials, and object data circled Scanned sketchbook drawing colored digitally: a grey-haired man in glasses and plum suit sitting in a pale green armchair, rotated sideways on yellow 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' Sketchbook 38 spread: pencil towers — the Oudenaarde town hall dome, a crenellated castle brushed dark on pink ground, and Bologna's leaning towers with swallows La Vita Nova render: a towering point-cloud figure fills a dark shaft of light, tiny scanned statuettes hovering in niches around it Astrodienst natal chart for Riea: Gemini sun, Libra ascendant, the aspect lines webbing red and blue across the wheel An enormous pale pink peony bloom overwhelming its blue vase on a red table, an orchid pot beside it Untextured grey model of grandmother's crooked house with black door and window frames, one window glowing red Before and after, two selfies: long dreadlocks past the chest, then cut to chin length, holding up the severed hair with a grin (a face photobombing below) Film still: a man and a woman stand in a wet green garden watching a wooden barn burn, from Tarkovsky's Mirror Macro through a kaleidoscopic lens: a carved rosette embossed in reds and flesh tones, dissolving into flower-mosaic blur Face texture test: a woman's head overgrown with dark feathered fur, black hollow eyes, wireframe lines showing through 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 Collage naming two Roman coins — Faustina's over a painted empress, Antonius' silver denarius below Joseph-Benoît Suvée's The Invention of the Art of Drawing: the Corinthian maid traces her lover's lamplit shadow on the wall as he gazes up at her Three webcam frames trying on a black high-collared jacket in front of wood panelling, timestamped 2008-02-15 Sketchbook 48 Musée Rodin spread in ballpoint: Gates of Hell figures, a crouching nude, and notes on Camille Claudel's 'L'Âge Mûr' — 'marble so often looks like soft skin, like butter' Sketchbook 49 spread: faint layered crowd studies in graphite and ochre — faces, lips, and a staring woman — with the note 'if you think this is over then you're wrong' Two sepia portraits of a man at home: smiling close in wire glasses and a heavy chain; then aiming his Nikon back at the camera beneath a Pianos Daudé poster Back of sketchbook 38 and its spine: marbled green paper under a black inked cloud, leather corners, spine strips reading 'Der Geist des Rokoko' Tiny green-on-black terminal: 'Everything is Ok — Bonnie-2:~ Auriea$' Diary line in blue ballpoint over the printed word APRIL: 'I wrote this in Darmstadt with a free pen. Michael has gone to the restroom. I'm drinking champagne.' Sketchbook 39, digital painting: the full moon as a soft smudge of white haloed in violet-black night Ancient Egyptian bronze mirror: a slender standing woman forms the handle, her upraised arms curving into a papyrus support for the broad golden disc Sketchbook 39: a woman in a slip drawn in charcoal and white chalk on kraft-brown paper, her head turned sharply in profile, hair swept up Sketchbook 47 spread in sanguine pencil: tumbling stacks of blocky ruins and scattered figures with beams, captioned 'Adult parties w/ wine & fire' Sketchbook 46 spread: flowers in black ballpoint on the tan page — an open peony, a bud, a dark rose — continuing onto blue-white paper as chrysanthemums tinted violet, orange and a pink rose in colored pencil Sketchbook drawing of heaven and hell: a bowed figure in black on brown earth, flames at their feet, while a distant figure exults under a cross and red sun 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 Colossal marble head of Medusa asleep on a rock, her face tipped back, wrapped in a mane of thick coiling snakes MinoRinth from above: green-edged concentric maze rings curving below brick towers, their walls stitched with dotted purple seams Chalk drawing on red-brown paper: two arms reaching upward and a tilted, smiling face — study of a straining Eros from the Louvre ThinkPad X201 tablet open, keyboard in the foreground; the glossy screen reflects the photographer instead of showing anything — the Eureka Maru Ruby's head front-on: red bowl-cut wig over black eye-mask shadow, mouth open, black choker, on deep blue Roma sketchbook: pencil sketch of a roped-off monument, and in purple and brown, a Bernini angel reaching toward a draped reclining figure The colossal marble Medusa from behind: heavy braids of snakes wind over the sleeping head, one serpent knotted around the mass Cover of sketchbook 12A: worn grey-green board mottled with dark stains, taped spine, and a tiny white '#12' label at center The Rhine from a car window: Cologne Cathedral's twin spires on the skyline, barges below, a hand resting on the sill in shadow Walton Ford's Falling Bough: a massive branch borne aloft by a swarming flock of passenger pigeons, breaking apart against a pale sunset over the river plain 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 3D render of a purple cyclops figure: a fleshy one-eyed male torso with truncated arms standing on a green-and-blue striped angular pedestal 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

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