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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 Purple passion velvet plant, its fuzzy deep-purple serrated leaves overflowing a pale lilac pot Metope's Tools tablet: a grid of twenty shape tools (Pad, Coil, Stylus, Knife, Rake, Rib, Smooth, Smear, Pinch, Inflate, Scrape, Move, Crease, Chatter, Gnomon, Moulding, Drill, Extrude, Imprint, Stamp), the Relax Mesh and Rebuild Mesh buttons, and the brush sliders below. Sketchbook 43 spread from a hospital room, 1 June 2012: pencil studies of the draped bedside table, IV drip lines, a faucet, and a hand cradling a heart-rate clip — 'Oh Venus, where did I go wrong?' Sketchbook 40, Lido 30 May: beach umbrellas in blue ballpoint, a palm frond, a yellow-lit Venetian facade with flower balconies, watercolor swatches down the edge Spolia-UI-Overview 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 The Laughing Man logo from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex — a winking smiley ringed by the circling Salinger quote 'I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes' Portrait of sculptor Kiki Smith in her overgrown back garden, grey curls loose, tattooed hand raised mid-thought Cover of sketchbook 23B: a narrow old ledger bound in dark marbled paper, red cloth at the spine, edges worn to orange Tiny dithered black-and-white photograph of a loaf of bread with cut slices leaning against it Sketchbook 38 spread in ballpoint: a park path curving under trees toward a small stone bridge, an empty bench in dappled shade Long pink-and-black text conversation about BioShock: 'i didn't find it gorgeous at all... Hellgate <--vs--> Anne Carson. Anne Carson wins!' Three tiny black bird silhouettes flying across a long white banner 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' Two photographs of a Commodore VIC-20 blank programming cassette: the white tape labeled Side 2 above its silver-striped cardboard sleeve Blurred black-and-white frame: pale hands and limbs smeared in motion against darkness Atta Kim's long-exposure Making Love: two bodies dissolved into a single yellow-green cloud of light on darkness Atari Centipede arcade marquee: the green centipede winds through red-capped mushrooms and yellow starbursts in purple and green Stygian Hand: a dark encrusted open hand rendered in bronze and green, cradling a single brown eyeball in its glossy palm against molten gold blur Spread of the Archimedes Palimpsest: faded Greek minuscule and geometric diagrams ghosting beneath the later prayer-book text Digital painting study in umber and bone: a downturned face after an old master, brushstrokes loose, a brush-tool icon floating top left A red 3d-printed extension worn over the middle finger of a brown hand with gold-painted nails and a gold ring; laptop keyboard and grey cat beyond 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' Painted 3d head in profile looking up, sinewy yellowed skin like carved bone, grey ground Entropy8Zuper International Garden Mural Invitational template: a courtyard with a sooty black wall and two green plastic chairs, above a blank measured mural diagram Sketchbook 47 Rome spread: full-page graphite study of a sprawling classical nude with an arm flung overhead, beside grotteschi from Palazzo Doria, a Pietro da Cortona sketch, and notes on feeling at home in Rome Sketchbook 44: pencil drawing of the ruined castle of Fenouillet on its rocky hilltop, drawn as an outline map of boulders with touches of violet ink Sketchbook 46 spread titled 'The Audience': overlapping colored-pencil studies of a group of nudes in graphite, brown and wine red — standing, crouching and turning as if watching something Cover of sketchbook 46: plain grey-green linen with a black elastic band, unadorned Roma sketchbook: quick ink sketches of sculpture groups — figures wrestling above a skeleton, and a robed statue on a plinth The Graveyard: the old woman leaning on her cane at a fork in the white path, tombs and dark trees pressing in, black and white A solid red square Cover of sketchbook 24: grey-black felt with a gold eagle medallion reading 'Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Modern World' 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' Page from a Dutch Tiny (Martine) children's book: text about Tiny's circus above an illustration of her as a small ballerina curtsying in a spotlight among water lilies Three views of a small book silvered edge to edge: metal leaf cracking and peeling across the gutter of its open pages The original beige Apple Macintosh: built-in monochrome screen showing a welcome dialog, floppy slot below, keyboard cable in front 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' Official letter from Stad Gent, Dienst Bevolking Vreemdelingen, dated 2 August 2001 — the residence-permit request declared void, signed and stamped Sketchbook 46 frontispiece on orange paper: A. 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Stallings's poem 'The Island of Skyros' copied out under a painted title, with a ballpoint still life in the corner — Ghent, NYC, Indianapolis, Belgrade, March–August 2013 Sformo-Numbers Giuseppe Maria Crespi's Hecuba Blinding Polymestor: the Trojan queen in torn white silk drives her thumbs into the bound king's eyes as he claws backward in the dark 1983 Atari ad headed They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Keyboard: a tuxedoed man triumphs at an Atari home computer while party guests gape 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 Sideways photo in the Pisa Baptistery: the bronze Saint John the Baptist raising a cross-tipped staff atop the font's spired Gothic canopy Spread from Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red, pages 4 and 5: what difference did Stesichoros make — adjectives as the latches of being, and red Geryon of Erytheia 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 Sketchbook 48 spread dated Dec 12 at the Petit Palais: graphite nude after Jordaens's wife from behind, notes on 'Jordaens et le réalisme flamand', Carpeaux's Three Graces and Daumier Cover of sketchbook 23A: plain deep magenta cloth, worn and water-stained, no title

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