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Annotated guide to the Japanese social network mixi: orange navigation bars broken down row by row into kanji, kana, and English definitions Sketchbook 41 spread: pencil and red ballpoint life-drawing studies of crouching and reclining nudes, with a handwritten list of painters — Morot, Shishkin, Carlsen, Mancini, Prud'hon, Vibert, Bonnat, Ribera Silent Hill screenshot: a dark corridor swallowed in black, the flashlight flaring gold against a door beside a potted plant Purple passion velvet plant, its fuzzy deep-purple serrated leaves overflowing a pale lilac pot James Jean's painting Sink: a robed minotaur pours a thread of water from a teapot toward a pale bald girl curled in a tub among dark leaves Three views of a small polished bronze by Auriea: a crouching Magdalene-like figure with long hair pressing a hand to her head, a skull emerging behind her shoulders Sketchbook 38 spread in watercolor: magenta coneflowers with drooping petals at left, a bank of pink valerian against dark hedge at right Alone on a bench in a crimson museum hall, hood up, notebook in hand, before Rubens' vast Martyrdom of Saint Livinus Blurred black-and-white frame: pale hands and limbs smeared in motion against darkness The Living Line in wobbly hand-drawn lettering above a screenshot of Droom-Zacht v1.0, 'drawing tools for sleepy people', its canvas filled with dense brown scribble Extreme close-up of one made-up eye, winged eyeliner and freckles, looking sidelong Small cut-out sprite of a low-poly man in brown jacket and jeans running away, seen from behind — Harry Mason of Silent Hill Sketchbook 42 spread: ballpoint Christmas stocking hung from a switch plate, a basket of dried flowers, and studies of a toddler — walking away in a dress, laughing face, sulking mouth Studio wall: a charcoal torso study clipped to a board beside a whitewashed wall hung with USB cables, a mirror below reflecting an outstretched hand The Fountain of Life detail from the Ghent Altarpiece — angels kneeling on starry grass around the slender bronze fountain — framed with a plaque reading 'Auriea 2012', a gift from Hasan Niyazi Vija Celmins's Eggs, 1964: four fried eggs sizzling on a grey double hot plate against a muted blue-grey ground Sketchbook 48 spread: 'The lesson of Raphael — you stand on the dragon, your sword is lighter than air', with a pencil study of a standing putto reaching upward — 'transform the hours of your life into art' Path production prints: black-and-white posters of the six sisters hung on a line, and the tall Scarlet poster taped up over the tidy desk Blender wireframe of the old woman's head in profile over her reference photograph — retopology of the grandmother Sketchbook spread in ballpoint: cathedral vaults and rose windows swarming with lines — 'So I guess I'm graduating... at Riverside Church, Sat 15 May 93' The Piraeus Apollo: an archaic Greek bronze kouros mottled with green patina, standing with both forearms extended, one palm open Atari Centipede arcade marquee: the green centipede winds through red-capped mushrooms and yellow starbursts in purple and green Hokusai's shunga print The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife: a woman reclining among rocks in the embrace of two octopuses, calligraphy filling the sky Three glitched 3d renders: exploded polygon spikes in yellows, a rainbow-triangulated leg embedded in grey mesh, dark red faceted caverns The colossal marble Medusa from behind: heavy braids of snakes wind over the sleeping head, one serpent knotted around the mass 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 John Berger in a patterned shirt against a flat blue ground, a still from Ways of Seeing, BBC 1972 Portrait of sculptor Kiki Smith in her overgrown back garden, grey curls loose, tattooed hand raised mid-thought Tiny game screenshot: a figure standing alone in the middle of a cracked grey road through mottled green-orange terrain Journal spread: on deep red, a collaged engraving of a dancing couple falling, opposite a page-filling face scribbled black and red over a huge lashed eye — 'no idea....' Two frames of Kim Basinger in 9½ Weeks: standing in a doorway in a trench coat, then lying down, hand in her hair, a man's shoulder in front Three museum selfies of Auriea with Raphaels: the Ecstasy of Saint Cecilia in Bologna, the portrait of Baldassare Castiglione, and the Madonna of the Meadow Grid of fifteen video frames shot along a highway: billboards reading Available, poles and power lines under a hand-tinted pastel sky Copper photogravure plate for Saint John the Baptist held in the light: Auriea's face reflects inside the etched figure's hood, a blue fingernail at the edge Preface page from Anne Carson's Grief Lessons — 'Tragedy: A Curious Art Form' — beginning 'Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.' Cover of sketchbook 45: a small oil painting glued to the black cloth board — two extracted molar teeth painted thickly in ivory against a deep teal ground 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 Cover of sketchbook 44: a red 19th-century publisher's binding stamped in gold, titled 'Feu et Flamme', the author's name blacked out — an antique book altered into a sketchbook French poster for Wong Kar Wai's 2046: an embrace in black over neon Hong Kong signage, the title in gold Master copy in progress of Waterhouse's Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses — Circe enthroned before the round mirror, cup and wand raised Journal spread filled edge to edge with handwritten lists of symptoms and side effects: cramps, dizziness, numbness, hallucinations, page after page in black ink Spiral notebook page dated 10/1/87 written entirely in an invented cipher of hearts, triangles, and squiggles, one line ending in a burst of exclamation marks Sketchbook 47 Cologne spread in ballpoint: Kölner Dom interior with a red-robed cleric, a Madonna ringed by votive crosses, an octagonal labyrinth and gothic tracery — 'to draw is to confess?' Roma sketchbook: an umbrella pine in terracotta pencil with a dark inked sculpture head resting at its base A dead twig with curled brown leaves on a grey ground, two leaves lettered in white paint to spell perfekt 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. Cover of sketchbook 32, light side: two panels of tan player-piano roll paper, the perforated note slots scattered like morse code, a red band between 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 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' Pelt style in miele: hides thrown over the neck struts falling in folds, draped legs below with bare feet emerging under the scalloped hem.

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