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Metope's radial palette, opened over the work: a ring of wedges for view, paint, glaze, texture, set, colour, tools and display, with the current tool named in the centre. John Cage graphic score: fragments of notated staves coiling in a great spiral across the page 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.' Two Louvre photos: a gilded ceiling crowded with ornament and putti, and Raphael's La Belle Jardinière with a sketchbook of tumbling cube studies held before it Standing in split-toe tabi boots on a concrete doorstep, grey trousers pushed into the black boots, a number-printed black skirt above Work desktop: ballpoint sketches of a man's eyes, a red-ink figure drawing, and a 3d man with a dotted wireframe mask — '144 character modeling - Grandmother' in the dock Sketchbook 57 page at the Musei Capitolini: charcoal study after Caravaggio's St John the Baptist embracing the ram, with notes on getting authorized to draw after 6:30 The octagonal baptismal font of the Pisa Baptistry seen from the gallery above, a small bronze figure at its center, set in rings of inlaid marble floor Stage photo from Wim Vandekeybus's In Spite of Wishing and Wanting: bare-chested men in fuchsia skirts, one balancing in a deep arabesque, others crouched and turning Sketchbook 44: graphite copy after Velázquez — a short-haired boy with a white collar glancing over his shoulder, a hand below him raising a small glass Sketchbook spread of draped gowns drawn in ballpoint: a dark radiant dress labeled 'A Foolish Virgin' and two pale robes labeled 'A Wise Virgin' Sketchbook 44 page: ballpoint masked figures in hooded robes labeled Beauty, Wit, Virtue and Grace — 'the fairies are not your friends, they are old magic' — with a crowned tragic mask at center Metope's Interface tablet: the four interface stones (basalt, plaster, terracotta, aegean), the metal accent swatches with follow-brush, the viewport backdrop controls, and reset bench. Sketchbook spread in ballpoint: gothic spires and hanging chandelier-like forms of Riverside Church, drawn dense and scratchy across both pages 3D-scanned portrait of the artists mother in blue-white on black: head wrapped in a scarf, face in profile, the shoulders dissolving into torn point-cloud lace The fossil skeleton of Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis: her scattered bones — skull fragments, ribs, pelvis, limb pieces — laid out on dark blue cloth In the studio — On Borgo Angelico at 14:09, she found Deep Red—that inward turning, garnet-dark, the colour of old blood pooling in silk. Cover of sketchbook 12B: black board flecked with white and pink paint, collaged strips of patterned paper and a small photo of a white horse at center Tale of Tales's The Graveyard installed in the V&A Videogames exhibition: monitors, notebooks, and framed sheets along a dark gallery wall Sketchbook 32 spread: Washington Square Park fountain in white and brown gouache, black silhouettes circling through hot pink swirls — 'a beautiful day after meeting with Wayne + Ashley, 2006' Text excerpt from James Baldwin: '...It was really a matter between me and God. I told him quite a long, long time ago there would be two of us at the Mercy Seat. He would not be asking all the questions.' Sketchbook 46 spread: two graphite dancers pressed back to front, one gripping the other's hip, beside a black gouache figure with a raised brush-stroke arm The same portrait head resolved: black woman in a white headwrap on ochre ground, after Benoist's Portrait of a Negress Sketchbook 48 spread: figures reduced to stacked boxes ('a lot of talk about magic'), facing a blocked-in standing nude with red construction lines and notes on EROS, thrust and 'the boxes are a placeholder for the space the body takes' Beksiński painting: a figure with wild red hair and bared teeth, pearls at the throat, wrapped in a rotting ornate garment amid an orange haze Face texture test: a woman's head overgrown with dark feathered fur, black hollow eyes, wireframe lines showing through Sketchbook 48 spread in pencil: a draped baroque saint clasping a bundle against dark shading, an orange domed chapel on the horizon, and a soft study of figures on rocks Sketchbook 49 spread: graphite study of a mannerist pose with arm raised, and a sanguine drawing of two intertwined nudes dated 30 Dec 2013, 17:45, at the Louvre Blender wireframe of nested matryoshka dolls, four egg-bodies one inside another in orthographic view Sketchbook 41 spread of figure-drawing sessions: pencil studies of a standing model bending forward above, quicker red ballpoint crouching and kneeling nudes below Black-and-white sign in Disney-style lettering: 'ALL SHE SAID WAS — HORRIBLE THINGS WILL HAPPEN' Sketchbook 45 before its cover painting: a black-and-white photo of the plain black square book held at one corner, a pencil resting behind it Sepia museum display of a mastodon skeleton before a painted marsh mural, its label reading 'This mastodon was found in Indiana' Night desk: Wacom tablet showing a painting in progress of a girl in a forest clearing, laptop with the reference scene, headphones and the watercolor tin nearby Sketchbook 40, journal page copying Anne Carson: 'Drawing is quite, quite naked...' with notes on drawing, honesty, and modelling a hand in 3D, a wiry hand sketched above Roma sketchbook: brush-pen sketch after Bernini's Rape of Proserpina — her raised arm and turned head, his fingers pressing into her hip Small grainy GIF of Mr. T in his layered gold chains and mohawk Cover of sketchbook 43: white gessoed cloth painted with a large marbled sphere in red, gold and green, a small silver moon circle set into its lower edge Homestay snapshot from Kanazawa: the Okawa family — teenage son, father and grandmother — kneeling on tatami, beside the envelope back with their family details handwritten Gallery corner installation of cut paper: red arteries, cream intestines, and green organs cascading down the white walls onto the concrete floor Work-in-progress VR lock in the game engine: an orange striped head caged inside interlocking dark rings, purple tendrils sweeping through the space around it Sketchbook 43: the June 2012 transit of Venus painted as an ochre-gold sun disc with the planet a small dark dot near its lower edge 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 Handbound sketchbook open on a green park table: gouache painting of the pond and trees, the same real pond hazy behind Cover of sketchbook 49: dark green cloth with a pasted photograph of a granite Egyptian head on its museum pedestal Digital painting study in umber and bone: a downturned face after an old master, brushstrokes loose, a brush-tool icon floating top left FlightView tracker map: flight DL5372 en route from Indianapolis to New York over a weather-radar map of the eastern US 3d model of a weathered stone grave cross in an empty grey Blender viewport — a gravestone for The Endless Forest Cover of sketchbook 4: black leather-look book collaged with a blurred self-portrait photo in a fractal frame, lettered in green — 'Pseudo Quasi Real' and 'chaos is my life' Black-and-white café table: a Früh Kölsch bottle and two tall glasses, one full, one nearly empty

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