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Sketchbook 48 spread: delicate graphite study of a downcast female nude leaning forward, ringed by spiraling notes on block-in, shadow pattern and 'draw contour last' 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' Labeled cutaway diagram of the Teller-Ulam two-stage thermonuclear design: primary with plutonium pit beside the cylindrical secondary in its radiation case Sketchbook 46 spread: sanguine life studies — bent legs and a standing torso on the white page; on the orange page a sprawled male nude heightened with white chalk, legs splayed Sketchbook 45: a white rose in graphite against a dark hatched ground, its stem crossing two curled leaves — dated notes opposite mention Bientôt l'été and Anne Carson ZBrush: dark red clay-like child figure with orange retopology lines crawling over the body Café Astrology natal wheel in beige and red: Gemini sun, Libra ascendant, with the triangular aspect grid and planet table below Sketchbook 4, 'Diagram of the War': a page-spanning blue ink flowchart of spirals and rivers of self-argument — 'nothing exists until we perceive it', 'be careful what you wish for' groworld research pair: a notebook drawing of an underground city with pheromone paths, and a photo of a pensive face, chin in hand — 'minimise borders and maximise edges' The Path's red room: girl in striped top standing on a dark table in a blood-red interior, black silhouette figures around the walls Two stacked book spines misread as one phrase: gold-stamped HISTORY above a red cloth spine reading THE CHALLENGE OF Blurred photo of a mammogram machine in a beige clinic room, footswitches on the floor Cover of sketchbook 9: pink-washed board stamped 'ENCLOSED' in red, scratched with a circled monogram and penciled 'retro-sketch #IX Auriea L. Harvey — PROFOUND IDEAS' Dim webcam photo: a man's face half out of frame beside a window with potted plants on the sill, a pale building across the street and a radiator below Barack and Michelle Obama embracing forehead-to-forehead on election night, black stage behind — AFP/Getty frame 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 Sketchbook 48 spread: atelier maxims on block-in and contour — 'no straight lines in anything ever', 'limbs start turning before the joint' — facing a faint gesture sketch of a striding horse Sketchbook 38 spread: Prague Castle and St Vitus's spires in loose watercolor, red rooftops dissolving into wash below a blue sky Belgian driving-theory exam sheet from the GOCA centre, 24 September 2012: 'Uitslag Theoretisch Examen — Geslaagd' (passed), receipt stapled below Roma sketchbook: brush-pen sketch after Bernini's Rape of Proserpina — her raised arm and turned head, his fingers pressing into her hip 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?' Cover of sketchbook 7 (1990): white spiral book covered in pink lipstick kisses, inked 'Auriea Sketchbook VII — chaos is my life — Pseudo Quasi Real', 20 Aug–26 Sept The Graveyard, wide crop: the old woman with her cane passing the chapel bench, urn-topped monuments pale behind her Ruby's head front-on: red bowl-cut wig over black eye-mask shadow, mouth open, black choker, on deep blue Digital charcoal studies of two Michelangelo figures: a twisting bound slave washed in yellow, and a second figure with arm raised overhead Two Path scenes: the misty forest with the small white shrine among trunks, and the girl at a picket fence gate before the house glowing purple Metope's Navigator tablet: the corner mini-map, the five view-mode buttons, and undo, redo and fit. Sketchbook 38, first spread: a graphite study of an old tree's crossing branches over water, drawn dense and silvery against a blank left page Black-and-white sign in Disney-style lettering: 'ALL SHE SAID WAS — HORRIBLE THINGS WILL HAPPEN' The Path work-in-progress: dark girl with striped top in an overexposed poppy field, a pale scarecrow figure looming behind her Inside the MinoRinth maze: dark castle-like towers with chimneys loom over the walls under a curdled white-and-sepia sky A Roland TR-606 Drumatix drum machine: silver face with accent and drum knobs above a row of sixteen grey step buttons Sketchbook 40, Schloss notes: a red ribbon whipping between inked topiary and hedges, sketches of chandeliers and a fountain in a room, notes on hidden servant doors Roma sketchbook: pencil sketch of a roped-off monument, and in purple and brown, a Bernini angel reaching toward a draped reclining figure Two photographs of a Commodore VIC-20 blank programming cassette: the white tape labeled Side 2 above its silver-striped cardboard sleeve Flemish allegory of Fortune: blindfolded, she balances on a sphere in a stormy sky, shaking coins and goods from two hats over a scrambling crowd, a gallows at right Sketchbook 47 Naples spread: pencil studies after Caravaggio's 'Seven Acts of Mercy', two anguished theater masks, and a winged sphinx — 'Misericordias Domini in aeternum cantabo' Sketchbook 22B spread: red flames drawn sweeping across a silvered page, opposite ink studies of a torso, flames, and notes — 'The Lesser of Many, Many evils, 17 Jan 95' Tiny image of a woman in a white head-wrap looking over her shoulder, after the old master portrait 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' 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 Black-and-white profile portrait of Louise Bourgeois in old age, eyes closed, holding up her long-fingered hand like a fan before her face Cover of sketchbook 22B: a dark overexposed photograph of a crowd raising round-headed forms, like a procession seen through fog Sketchbook 42, page 11: ballpoint still life on tan paper — a two-liter Sprite bottle, glass mugs, eyeglasses, a crumpled wrapper, and a TV remote Ink sketchbook page of antlered stag studies — one full body with heavy fur, two roaring heads, loose antler diagrams Hotel-room door detail: steel panel with white handle, ballpoint graffiti on the frame — 'JOHAN Je t'♥ gio 21/03/08' Worn black cover of the Caproni Casts catalog — 'Plaster Reproductions of Sculpture for Drawing and Modeling Classes', Caproni Galleries, Boston, price one dollar Victor Hugo's ink and sepia-wash drawing of an octopus, its curling tentacles emerging from golden-brown stains Strip of a 3d face: two almond eyes with snowflake-patterned kaleidoscope irises in pale skin

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