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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.' Auriea seated with an orange classical guitar, dreadlocks falling over a green tee, right hand spread across the strings Small jade plant with plump oval leaves in a terracotta pot with saucer, on a red tiled windowsill by an open window Sideways photo in the Pisa Baptistery: the bronze Saint John the Baptist raising a cross-tipped staff atop the font's spired Gothic canopy Cover of sketchbook 17: cream paper with a small dark varnished window of foliage over faint cursive script, red velvet spine at left MinoRinth simulation frame: seen from high above, the tiny yellow labyrinth disc and point-cloud tree glow at the bottom of a muted green chasm Tiny animated screen-capture: an image-editing window with a small dark photograph inside, too small to read Green-on-black terminal listing: files MissJones and THEDEVIL, then the command 'cp ._THEDEVIL ._MissJones' 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 Sketchbook 49 spread: a red-and-graphite banner-waving nude atop struggling fallen figures, facing a putto's face, a study of a nude's hip and thigh in pink, and a keychain shaped like an 8 Netscape Navigator 2.02 splash screen: the white N logo and a glowing ship's wheel over a starry network map, copyright 1995, 1996 Netscape Communications Soft-focus black-and-white studio portrait of a girl with dark marcel-waved hair and dark painted lips, gazing steadily at the camera Cover of sketchbook 30: a hanging cluster of pale bell-like flowers painted over turquoise and gold wash Timothy Stotz's chart The Flowering Staircase, 1435–1935: five centuries of master-apprentice lineages from Michelangelo and Raphael down to Matisse and Ted Seth Jacobs Atari Tempest title screen: the word TEMPEST in glitching red-and-blue vector strokes above the 1980 Atari copyright Album cover of Puccini's Turandot with Maria Callas in a jeweled headdress; Schwarzkopf, Fernandi, and the La Scala forces under Tullio Serafin Mac Finder search grid: sixteen identical copies of gold.gif, small square tiles of mottled gold texture Narrow interface background strip: a rounded black bar fading downward into white Photocopied menu of Pizzeria Prima Donna: thirty-four numbered pizzas from Margherita at 3.75 euro to Fantaseer zelf, with a Leaning Tower logo Sformo-Mold-Exploded Sketchbook 44 spread over the printed chapter headings of Feu et Flamme: a tonal graphite nude curled around his knees, hands clasped over his feet Sketchbook 43 dedication, Ghent, 18 March 2012: a night-blue gouache of star wheels over rooftops, facing Lucretius's invocation to life-stirring Venus copied in red-brown ink Bronze sculpture of Dryope: a nude woman mid-stride with a serpent winding up her body from ankle to shoulder, one hand crossed over her breast The Mystery, second version in pale green: the skull smoothed and helmeted, the face sunk in its socket, a long horn looping back like a ribbon Sketchbook 32 cover detail: creased player-piano roll paper, its white perforations drifting diagonally across the tan surface Sketchbook 5 spread: Emily Dickinson's 'My life closed twice before its close' written out in violet, facing a green-toned acrylic nude torso with dark red nipples Drawing on a torn, burn-edged scrap: a pencil eye weeping a lattice of small blue teardrops, with the words something I don't trust written along the lid Sketchbook 49 spread at Chicago's Driehaus Museum: sanguine studies of Tiffany bronze candlesticks and a caryatid ('Renaissance + Japanese motifs combined'), facing graphite silhouettes of cinnabar lacquer and skyline finials Side view of Auriea's small bronze Magdalene raising a skull before her face, photographed on a windowsill beside a cream-white rose Panorama on the Gravensteen bridge in Ghent, unimpressed face in the foreground, the castle and canal curving behind, tourists at the rail Small verdigris bronze: a rough crouched form, part shell and part gilled fungus, raised on thin wire legs over a bed of cast leaves Abyssinian kitten enthroned on an iPad on a red cushion, huge ears up, beside a taped-up STAN theater poster Sformo-Assembled Blingee'd black-and-white Crater Lake photo: animated stars and sparkles, 'Merry Christmas!' stamped in the corner Sketchbook 35, a diary week crossed out to 'X-MAS': pencil portrait of an older woman in profile with a wine glass, and studies of hands and a girl reading Airmail envelope from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 90 Park Avenue, addressed to Ms. Auriea L. Harvey Book page of Oscar Wilde's preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, pencil-marked at 'No artist has ethical sympathies' and ending 'All art is quite useless' Sketchbook 49 spread of Donatello studies: St George and the Dragon relief with a large horse head, the pointed-hatted profile of Saint Louis de Toulouse, and notes on Spiritelli and Brunelleschi vs. Ghiberti MinoRinth canopy: the scanned tree bends into a dome of stippled black-and-sepia foliage over the copper chimneys of the maze towers Sketchbook 38 spread: a Tyrolean pine hillside in plum-dark wash, kettles sketched beneath — 'Gutshof zum Schluxen, Austria. Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Besuch!' P·P·O·W gallery graphic for The Unbody, May 6 to June 9 2021: Auriea's dark green Ox Apotheosis sculpture, a horned bull-headed figure enthroned, floats on blue Sketchbook 46 spread: charcoal study of a man hauling himself up a ladder into shadow, and opposite, a white-faced ram's head peering past an ornately carved cabinet Nick Cave's From Her to Eternity in iTunes, track 4 playing, the young Nick Cave cover at left Split screen: a folder of vanitas skull paintings beside a YouTube documentary about painter Fuyuko Matsui, a woman in kimono seen from behind Sketchbook 38 spread: pencil towers — the Oudenaarde town hall dome, a crenellated castle brushed dark on pink ground, and Bologna's leaning towers with swallows Black-and-white sign in Disney-style lettering: 'ALL SHE SAID WAS — HORRIBLE THINGS WILL HAPPEN' AP photograph of the yeti crab Kiwa hirsuta: a white deep-sea crab, its long arms shaggy with pale silky bristles Sketchbook 42 closing spread: crayon figure studies — a standing figure in hot pink, yellow and green with rainbow scribbles beside it, and a fainter second figure dissolving into color bars Sketchbook 32 spread from the Met: a falcon-headed crocodile god in yellow, four red Anubis-like animal heads, and pencil sketches of a resting arm — 'a river runs through him' Sketchbook 42 spread on tan paper: ballpoint café portraits — a man's face cropped at the glasses, and a woman with an updo, round earring and choker glancing back over her shoulder

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