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Spread of One Hundred Years of Solitude, pages 196–197, with 'Cease, cows, life is short' highlighted in yellow A battered TDK D90 cassette labeled in red pen Balinese Gamelon, Ketjak Monkey Chant, side A Page from Rodin's conversations on art: asked if art is a kind of religion, he answers that its first commandment is to model well an arm, a torso, or a thigh Diagram of the Hebrew letter aleph in thick black calligraphy, its strokes numbered 1 through 10 with pointer lines Chart of the twenty-four Greek capital letters from Alpha to Omega, each with its name and pronunciation spelled out beneath Sketchbook 38 spread: Prague Castle and St Vitus's spires in loose watercolor, red rooftops dissolving into wash below a blue sky Roma sketchbook: ballpoint sketch of Bernini's Cathedra Petri in St Peter's — the dove window radiating over the bronze throne and four doctors of the church — '147 popes' Barack and Michelle Obama embracing forehead-to-forehead on election night, black stage behind — AFP/Getty frame 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 A single pink peony in a small blue vase on a green bench by an open window, next to a monitor showing Blender with a 3d tree model 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 Standing at the lit vitrines of Degas bronzes — dancers mid-leap on their plinths — sketchbook raised, silhouetted in the amber museum light The Bauhaus curriculum wheel: VORLEHRE around the rim, rings of Stein Holz Metall Ton Glas Farbe Gewebe, and BAU at the core Journal spread: a red panel with a dark folded form at center, flanked by dense pages transcribing a conversation — 'he had been paralyzed from the waist down...' Ruby's head front-on: red bowl-cut wig over black eye-mask shadow, mouth open, black choker, on deep blue MinoRinth sky: a blinding white sun ringed in violet, radiating light streaks through drifting sepia clouds crossed by yellow-green vines Two-page spread from One Hundred Years of Solitude in which José Arcadio Buendía insists the day is still Monday, the time machine broken Blender screenshot: a girl's head model mid-retopology, orange wireframe patch over the cheek of a shaded doll-like face High-contrast digital portrait: pale face with heavy black eye makeup and black lips under a blunt black fringe, violet and orange accents QR code for the ProjectProject work The Mystery Two frames: copper leaf laid with tongs onto a girl's closed eyelids, then her face with gilded eye sockets running in metallic drips like tears Self-portrait in a round mirror by the wooden door, camera at eye, in a black sweater with dreadlocks tied back Back cover of sketchbook 48: green and brown marbled paper over worn boards with dark leather corners and a red cloth spine Sketchbook 46 spread: 'Frequently I am quite torn apart by anger' — a ballpoint figure collapsing amid scribbled darkness beside an up-flung arm drawn in graphite, a bare foot planted below Album cover of Bama the Village Poet's Ghettos of the Mind: a bald head in profile whose brain is a collage of sepia photographs Raphael's self-portrait from the Uffizi: the young painter in black cap and robe glancing over his shoulder, in a gold frame inlaid with knotwork panels Last.fm top artists grid: Akira Yamaoka on top with 1,685 plays, then Nick Cave, Sonic Youth, Bach, Air, Tom Waits, Radiohead, Björk… Subtitled still from Rome Open City: a woman speaks to a uniformed man in the street — 'Pina, do you think Americans really exist?' Sketchbook 32 dark side spread: Acropolis columns dripping in dark red ink, a Greek alphabet chart taped above a pencil island — 'first meeting with the Mediterranean sea, 2006' 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 Second angle on the simulated striped table: the curly blue head and orange cyclops face in front, legs in orange boots, a standing figure, and bone fragments behind Cover of 'Boris Vian de A à Z', Obliques No. 8–9: the title in bold purple cut-out letters over diagonal yellow and magenta stripes Sketchbook 44 spread, 2 October 2012, Boeing 747 to Las Vegas: red ballpoint sleeping passengers under a painted blanket, with a swatched palette of 'colors for a trip to California' Sketchbook 5: dense ballpoint drawing of a horse-like skull in profile, its teeth and cranial plates crosshatched into a black-and-white pattern Church on sunday — The courtyard floor holds her attention. Back of sketchbook 31: a dark felt pencil roll stitched in red over a black Moleskine, four worn pencils tucked in the bottom Sketchbook 38 spread in pencil: a glass of tea, its bag slumped beside it on a crumpled napkin — 'tea, Ronse(?)' Entropy8Zuper! flag emblem: a black pennant with white 8 and zig glyphs waving inside a red circle on black Freedom of Teach male écorché reference figure in grey resin: front, side, and back views of the full flayed musculature Blender scene for MinoRinth: twelve wooden folding chairs ringing a flat round labyrinth carved with concentric paths Detail of a digital painting after Monet: loose pink and white impasto strokes of water lilies floating on vertical blue-green water, with dark red foliage at right Sketchbook spread in ballpoint: gothic spires and hanging chandelier-like forms of Riverside Church, drawn dense and scratchy across both pages Colossal marble head of Medusa asleep on a rock, her face tipped back, wrapped in a mane of thick coiling snakes Small white clay maquette from behind: a kneeling Magdalene with long incised hair holding a skull up at arm's length, face to face Roma sketchbook: quick ink sketches of sculpture groups — figures wrestling above a skeleton, and a robed statue on a plinth Cover of sketchbook 15: the darkened, cracked contents page of an antique reader collaged under murky brown paint, entries like 'Trust in God' underlined in red Sketchbook 46 spread on orange paper: pencil study of a pedimented baroque facade beyond a staircase, its sky filled in blue with white chalk clouds, beside a watercolor houseplant in a black vase Palma il Giovane's Jael and Sisera: bare-shouldered Jael kneels with hammer raised, driving the tent peg into the sleeping general's head Despair.com demotivational poster, Procrastination: a figure gazes over a sea of clouds — laziness always pays off now

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