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Peter Verhelst theatre tableau: performers sprawled sleeping in a heap among foam animal sculptures — deer, swans, pelicans — in fringed costumes Sketchbook 49 spread on 'Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection': notes on the Sleeping Venus's winged-skull memento mori and gilt bronze, with two twisting figure sketches — 'the twist' Sketchbook 6 page dated 24 June 1990: rows of an invented cipher alphabet in green ink, with framing notes for a black-metal-frame self-image piece and the word 'anorexia' in the margin Sketchbook 46 spread: orchid buds barely open, purple and green against a brown wash — 'things that are not, that cannot, but must be' — beside a chalk study of a weathered column and rooftop Polaroid of a foot in a bright red-orange stocking and black strappy sandal, dark skirt hem swinging above speckled lino The same portrait head resolved: black woman in a white headwrap on ochre ground, after Benoist's Portrait of a Negress Sketchbook 32 dark side spread: pencil sketches of family on couches — a woman reclining with cats curled below, a young woman seated, studies of faces 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 Cover of sketchbook 23A: plain deep magenta cloth, worn and water-stained, no title Sketchbook 49 spread: a single faint gesture drawing of curling, flame-like figures rising up the page fold, the rest of the spread blank Tale of Tales lettered on a banner amid extravagant Spencerian pen flourishes that swirl into a long-tailed bird, in black ink on cream Sketchbook 44 spread, 'Slightly lost': ballpoint sketch of the Heusden bus stop en route to a driving exam, a reclining graphite nude below, and watercolor figure studies in grey and burnt orange opposite Inside cover of sketchbook 20: collaged Muybridge-like figures carrying trays across the bottom, a golden crest reading 'PSYCHE STORY' held up at right, rusty reds above 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 Journal spread: blue ballpoint knee studies wrapped in cursive about attraction and illness, skeleton torsos and shoe sketches, 'It's a perfect day for letting go' — 3 June 92 Book paragraph on Mozart's finances, highlighted pink: 'neither he nor his wife had a good grasp of managing finances… they lurched from crisis to crisis' Reference collage titled sirens, singing ref 1: film stills of women mid-scream and mid-song — wailing on beds, in cafeterias, in glitter crowns Sketchbook 46 spread: pencil study of wind-shaped trees in the Sint-Pietersabdij garden in Ghent, with a black frigatebird with scarlet throat painted on the facing page ZBrush sculpt in progress, close up: a dark-skinned female head tilted back, polygroup seams still visible across the cheek and brow, hair bound at the nape Roma sketchbook: quick ink sketches of sculpture groups — figures wrestling above a skeleton, and a robed statue on a plinth Four stills: a figure writing at a bright window table, a white silk sail over a dark landscape, a woman by a pond, and a tornado funnel at night Collage for MinoRinth: two mirrored profiles of Auriea joined like a Janus head, each face half-hidden by a horned grey bull's head 3d model of a weathered stone grave cross in an empty grey Blender viewport — a gravestone for The Endless Forest Still from Silent Hill 2: Maria leans close behind the cell bars, subtitle reading See? I'm real. Bernini's chalk study personifying St Peter's: a standing figure whose outstretched arms become the colonnades embracing the piazza 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 Sketchbook 46 spread: notes on Viktor Shklovsky's 'Making Strange' and estrangement in art, a small self-portrait with twisted locs, and a nude holding dark lilies drawn in pencil and sanguine Sketchbook pencil studies: a woman's downcast face, a dark heavily-shaded bearded man grimacing, and a faint construction-lines head A box crammed with 3D-print tests: faces and heads in chocolate brown, blue, gold, copper, and bone, red architectural fragments, and gridded lattice scraps Duchamp's Air de Paris: a glass ampoule like a teardrop ornament, hooked at the top, hanging on a thread — fifty cc of Paris Mina Loy's Love Songs in manuscript, 1915: the poem beginning Spawn of Fantasies in a looping hand, signed and dated Sketchbook 22B spread: a silvered page with a Handloom Batik Ganesha card taped on, opposite a drawing of a woman in a slip with one blackened arm against blue-patterned shadow Sketchbook 32 spread in black ink: Central Park trees at night seen from the Natural History Museum steps, canopies blotted heavy against a pale sky Snowflake-filtered webcam pair: Michael and Auriea cheek to cheek, then Auriea laughing with hand to forehead, ring catching the light Cover of sketchbook 30: a hanging cluster of pale bell-like flowers painted over turquoise and gold wash Roma sketchbook: ink sketch of Bernini's Apollo and Daphne, her raised arms bursting into leaves as the laurel bark climbs her legs Sketchbook 32, Mediaterra session 3 'Game Politics': six conference speakers drawn as ballpoint busts with name labels, tangled cords looping between them Sformo-Assembled Four Dior haute couture looks by Galliano, Madame Butterfly themed: Hokusai-wave gown, kimono silhouettes and origami tailoring Ghost-white ambient-occlusion bake of a girl's bust, blank eyes, floating over black shoulders Sketchbook 45 spread: pencil drawings of Martha from above — stockinged legs crossed at left; at right her long hair falling over a white blouse and dark skirt as she sits curled Six panels of charcoal spiral scribbles, black and white, ending in handwriting: 'practise makes perfect BUT perfection is BORING.' Digital painting study in umber and bone: a downturned face after an old master, brushstrokes loose, a brush-tool icon floating top left Yellowed spread from Rodin's L'Art in French: passages declaring art dead to modern utility, and art as contemplation, the joy of intelligence seeing clearly Sketchbook 48 spread: ballpoint portrait of a bald speaker and a colored-pencil portrait in mint-green shirt, with notes on the aesthetics of play coming from action, not objects — 'don't let a day go by' Sketchbook 46 spread: loose watercolor peonies in rose and magenta with sap-green leaves, blooming across the gutter of the tan pages Diptych of mirror self-portraits in a white bedroom: Auriea photographing her reflection, then the same mirror with the camera flash burst obliterating her face Two graphite studies of the Louvre's Old Centaur teased by Cupid, seen from behind and from the front, the winged child perched on the centaur's back Both sides of Sonic Youth's first EP on SST cassette: clear shells listing The Burning Spear, I Dream I Dreamed, She Is Not Alone, The Good and the Bad

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