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Sketchbook 49 spread on Michaël Borremans at BOZAR: thumbnail sketches of 'The Avoider', 'The Garment', 'The Angel' and 'The Devil's Dress' with notes, facing ballpoint figures from 'The Storm' 35mm projection loop Hazy sunset over Ghent rooftops seen from the Pollepelstraat window: two pale suns — one real, one reflected — hang over silhouetted buildings and a crane 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 Mac OS X Finder window titled the universe: fifty-one thumbnails of cosmological diagrams — Ptolemaic spheres, moon photos, orreries, and golden spirals Sketchbook 22B spread of journal writing with taped photos of small buildings and trees, a pencil sketch of a wrought-iron gate — 'turn the trees to flame.' Sketchbook 38 spread: charcoal sketches of the blackened statues on Charles Bridge, birds swarming around a saint's head Auriea standing with a sunburst electric guitar in a dark room, one hand on the maple neck, a cigarette between the fingers of the other Sketchbook 44 spread: pencil studies after ceiling figures — a flying woman with wind-blown drapery carrying an infant, and a second tumbling figure seen from below Sketchbook 41 spread: Sunset Appreciation Society notes with a lighthouse lamp drawn in ballpoint, a turreted house, and below, gouache studies of a fountain and an ultramarine stair tower with the persons of the play (Salomé) listed 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 Sketchbook 38 spread: a great cedar in the botanic garden, dark boughs in ink and wash spreading over water, small figures picnicking beneath Fifty-song year-end playlist: UMO, Momus, Belle & Sebastian, Vivaldi's Stabat Mater highlighted, Jarboe, Joanna Newsom, Boduf Songs Morning's desktop, windows fanned out: a 'How to Draw the Voronoi Diagram' blog post, tumblr fashion images, palm fronds, a rose-garden double exposure, a bun of locs The Pleiades star cluster: the seven sisters blazing blue-white inside wisps of reflection nebula on a dense starfield White vodou veve drawing on a dark grey ground — a starred, symmetrical crossroads emblem framed by two arcs ZBrush fragment for the Magdalene: a single bent arm rising from the elbow, its hand gripping a skull whose jaw dissolves into the fingers Five progressive states of the Magdalene etching side by side, the skull-faced seated figure emerging from faint outline to dense black shadow French exam paper, January 2008, name Auriea Harvey: 83% total with 'Très bien!' in green ink Cover of sketchbook 11, black leather-grain board with a small pasted label: 'THE NEW SCHOOL MUST FALL! LONG LIVE PARSONS!' Vector-flat forest study in two registers: thin black saplings on flat blue above, dense white frost-like branches and pale trunks below Odd Nerdrum's painting The Singer: close-up of a hooded figure with head thrown back, mouth wide open in song against a mustard ground Textured 3d prop: a red-handled knife stuck upright in a green-topped tree stump Mirror self-portrait in the Louvre's terracotta rooms: phone raised between the panes of a black vitrine full of small antique figures, a visitor rubbing her eyes at left Sketchbook 43 spread: pencil lilies in a glass jar — 'Nature is organized. It's like all my life I've been worshipping the wrong goddess' — facing faint studies of hands and feet Five views of Object 01: a small polished bronze head of Auriea, bald with serene features, shown in the hand, on a black pouch, and beside a leather notebook Two self-portraits of Auriea at 25 with short locs: leaning against a car on a mountain road, and among junipers at the rim of a canyon 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 Auriea and Michaël in profile, nearly nose to nose in the blue courtyard of the Casa Azul under the words 'Frida y Diego vivieron en esta casa 1929–1954' Lecture slide: three Bernini images — the Fountain of the Four Rivers figure sketch, an oval chapel plan, and Sant'Andrea al Quirinale's facade overlaid with proportion lines 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' Cover of sketchbook 46: plain grey-green linen with a black elastic band, unadorned Sketchbook 48 spread: art-history lecture notes from the Académie Royale on the Three Graces, Mantegna and Titian, facing a tender graphite study of a seated faun with a Santayana quote on Americans and junk Back cover of sketchbook 23B: dark red board with a vertical pasted clipping: 'She is a living example of the ancient theorem The Woman is a Sandwich Covered With White Marble.' — Max Ernst Sketchbook 44 spread over the printed chapter headings of Feu et Flamme: a tonal graphite nude curled around his knees, hands clasped over his feet 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 Garden corner with prikneus (rose campion) in bloom — magenta flowers on silvery stems among potted plants Sketchbook 42 spread: ballpoint figures on tan paper — a dark-haired woman embracing a bald figure from behind at left, faces and a clasped arm layered over blue washes at right Sketchbook 50 spread of dark thumbnail copies at the Mauritshuis, Den Haag: Rubens's Assumption sketch, Rembrandt's Andromeda, Vermeer's Diana and her Nymphs, Tityus and Sisyphus, and Rembrandt's Two Moors Sepia still life: a hand with dark nails at the edge of frame, two rough loaf-like stones, and a dark peony resting in a footed cup Sketchbook 49 spread of Louvre copies: a crouching satyr and standing nude pulling off her shift, facing a Daumier-like group of heads and a pensive figure resting chin on fist Metope's Canvas tablet: the canvas shape modes (rectangle, circle, polygon), the block width, height and depth fields with the resize anchor, the block material dropdown with its reroll die, and the new-slab button. Plain dark charcoal-grey square swatch Mock Atari cartridge label 'Explain Games to a Dead Hare': Joseph Beuys with gold-leafed head cradling the dead hare, 'Use with Joystick Controllers', © 2007 YOU, INC. Three Jandek-style CD-Rs on a desk: 'Magick for Cherishings' and 'Magick for Prudence' with pressed-flower covers, one disc hand-labeled 'NOT SURE IF I SENT THIS TO YOU ALREADY!' Small grainy black-and-white photo of Sonic Youth: Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Steve Shelley posed against a dark wall Cover of the earliest sketchbook, mustard yellow and dense with ink doodles: 'RIEA!', 'UTILITY SKETCHBOOK', Japanese characters, spirals, faces, 1989 Photograph of the back of a neck and shoulders tattooed with the single lowercase word life, ending in a period Sketchbook 40, 'Going Forth By Day': Gent to Venice by train — a blue-inked station kiosk, and sleeping passengers in faint pencil — 'every now and then it lets out a high pitched scream' Sketchbook 32 spread: a copy of Rodin's Le Sommeil in red wash and pencil, the sleeping head dissolving into loose coiling lines — 'Le Sommeil, Monsieur Rodin' Sketchbook 45 spread: graphite life studies of a seated male nude torso with crossed legs at left, and a slumped figure with an arm swung out along a dark bolster at right

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