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Four pinned cicada specimens beside a millimetre ruler, shown from above and below, dark bodies with amber-veined translucent wings Sketchbook 44 spread: graphite studies of a standing male nude in two overlapping stances at left, and at right the model reclining, legs extended toward the corner Scrawled white handwriting on black, from Arkham Asylum: 'I don't know how many times I have to say this: I am sane… There's been a TERRIBLE mistake.' Sformo-Bands Documentation of the ZBrush Spotlight dial: a dark ring of twenty-six numbered icons with a contents list from Rotate and Scale through Smudge, Hue, and Paint Sketchbook 48 spread in ballpoint: three studies after Rodin marbles — a kneeling nude from behind, a bending clothed figure, and the fallen caryatid carrying her stone — 'they live, they breathe' Sketchbook 49 spread at the Musée Jacquemart-André: notes on Vigée-Lebrun, Van Dyck and Lord Leighton's 'Antigone', facing a dense graphite copy of Aleijs Loir's sprawling satyr with pipes Two skeleton-rigged girls in cyan bones walking a plank boardwalk in a dark purple forest — Path animation debugging Sketchbook 38 spread: Prague Castle and St Vitus's spires in loose watercolor, red rooftops dissolving into wash below a blue sky Nintendo DS with Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass split across its two screens, the Bride above and the Bachelor Apparatus below A magenta-lit gallery room, empty except for a black doorway cut into the glowing pink wall Ancient Egyptian bronze mirror: a slender standing woman forms the handle, her upraised arms curving into a papyrus support for the broad golden disc Black-and-white snapshot printed upside down: a figure in a striped top stands on a lawn before shrubs, inverted like the tarot Hanged Man Six red 3d urns and lidded jars in diamond and stripe patterns lined up on a dark shelf — Graveyard props Comic panel: a goggled surgeon in green scrubs brandishes instruments before a blood-spattered map of America, ranting that laser surgery is what the country needs Sketchbook 48 atelier spread 'searching for a flashlight in the dark': boxy construction figures and a sanguine nude with hand on hip, with notes on Poussin vs. Rubens and Couture's 'line properly understood is color' Close crop of a portrait study after a 19th-century painting: a black woman with hoop earring and white headwrap, unfinished edges Sketchbook 44 spread: pencil profiles of faces and a hand with a ring, facing a faint mapped reconstruction of Alchemilla Hospital from Silent Hill — elevators, kids' room, kitchen — labeled 'SH1 endgame' Cover of sketchbook 38: a misty black-and-white photo of a Japanese garden framed in Kodak TX film-box edges, collaged over torn German book pages with red initials Page titled Pi is Irrational: Niven's short proof set in white mathematical type on black, from the defined polynomial to the concluding contradiction 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 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 Sketchbook 47 spread on the 'Rubens in Europe' exhibition: écorché studies, notes on Van Dyck's Charles I and Rubens's Leda and the Swan copy after Michelangelo — 'bursting out of this rectangle, but so still' Snapshot of Delacroix's Death of Sardanapalus detail — the bearded king gripping the arm of the nude concubine arched back against the red bed — stamped with a 2001 camera date Sketchbook spread drawn from a hospital bed: flowers in a water glass by the curtain, the IV stand, and the cannulated hand with one line touched in pink Sketchbook 49 spread: gestural line studies of tumbling bronze figures, with notes on Veronese's Hercules at the Crossroads and a seven-headed French Hercules-and-Hydra bronze Sketchbook spread in blue ballpoint: a large portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at right, smaller faces, a crown and 'KING' sketches at left Sketchbook spread: at left a black ballpoint doll-like head with a red mouth on a stalk; at right, red ballpoint legs in heels reclining from the page corner Medical diagram of suturing techniques: over-and-over, mattress, subcuticular, Lembert, Cushing, Halsted, Connell, and purse-string stitches Dancing drawing: a sweeping charcoal-and-pencil arc curving up the page from a dense black smudge, looping scribbles at its base Roma sketchbook: a gnarled old tree brushed in ink, its roots gripping the ground before an arched arcade Penguin cover of Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice: a kneeling woman in an open kimono between a samurai helmet and orchids with skull-faced blooms Fan-made English translation diagram of the Nintendo DS Browser settings menu, mapping every checkbox for web, interface, network, time and shortcut settings 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 Night photo of Kit Halsted, cigarette in mouth, leaning on a loaded Triumph motorcycle at a Manhattan curb, lit billboards down the street Installation photograph: red violins with their bows mounted swarming up white walls and across a tiled floor, like an infestation of insects Back cover of sketchbook 49: dark green cloth with a pasted photo of an open book — 'Relation du naufrage de la frégate La Méduse' — and an embossed rooster Black-and-white diagram of the lost circular pavement labyrinth of Santa Maria in Trastevere: eleven concentric mosaic rings around a dark center Louvre sketchbook study in pencil and white chalk on grey paper: two views of a headless draped Aphrodite torso, the cloth knotted at her hips Sketchbook 44 spread, 3 September, model session: soft pencil sketches of the same nude bending, kneeling and seen from the back, poses overlapping across the gutter Eight-song playlist starting with Final Fantasy's None Of You Will Ever See A Penny, five stars, then Deerhunter, Boduf Songs, Fridge, Beck, Cranes Two photographs of a Commodore VIC-20 blank programming cassette: the white tape labeled Side 2 above its silver-striped cardboard sleeve Sketchbook 48 spread: reclining foreshortened nude in graphite, and an ink-and-wash seated woman with one green-stockinged leg — questions in red on using energy lines for invention and composition Tale of Tales's The Graveyard installed in the V&A Videogames exhibition: monitors, notebooks, and framed sheets along a dark gallery wall A Roland TR-606 Drumatix drum machine: silver face with accent and drum knobs above a row of sixteen grey step buttons John Berger in a patterned shirt against a flat blue ground, a still from Ways of Seeing, BBC 1972 Louise Bourgeois drawing: obsession or Confusion? handwritten in red inside a scratchy red chalk frame, signed in pencil 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 Black silhouette of a woman drifting mid-turn against a grey gradient, a faint reflection under her feet Film still of a woman with red fabric mask across her eyes and ink marks on her face, beside a mosaic of the same image reduced to color swatches

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