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Page from a Dutch lexicon under U, Uurwerk: water clocks from Egypt and Vitruvius through Su Song and al-Jazari, ending on sultan al-Kamil's candle clock of twelve doors Two sepia portraits of a man at home: smiling close in wire glasses and a heavy chain; then aiming his Nikon back at the camera beneath a Pianos Daudé poster Sketchbook 39, digital painting: a bedside lamp with an orange shade glowing yellow underneath, on a brushy brown ground Diptych: Filippo Lippi's Annunciation, angel kneeling before Mary among arcades — and a restaging on a sunny lawn, four friends posed before a little white chapel Sketchbook 42b: charcoal study from the cast or original of a standing classical nude — torso and legs of an Apollo, drapery falling behind the extended arm Sketchbook 51 spread in sepia ink at 'Rubens privé', Antwerp: thumbnail copies of Rubens self-portraits, Isabella and Helena, with notes — 'Rubens cannot make me cry like Rembrandt, but he can make me feel love' Maerten de Vos, The Temptation of Saint Anthony: demons haul the saint into the sky by his cloak while below Anthony walks past lions, a devil-drummer and an elephant with a howdah Five penitent Magdalene paintings side by side, including Georges de La Tour's candlelit versions, each with long hair, a skull, and upturned eyes Journal spread: two torn notebook scraps with inked faces collaged over pencil writing, the profile at right labeled 'THE ACCUSER' Cover of sketchbook 23A: plain deep magenta cloth, worn and water-stained, no title Game character model: a gaunt zombie-like man with skull-white face, arms outstretched in T-pose, black tattered body with white markings 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 Vija Celmins graphite ocean drawing: an even field of small waves rendered wave by wave, no horizon Live Click Test3 Sketchbook 42 spread: inked fantasy landscape — a cypress and tower at left, windswept trees with ribboning branches at right, and two small girls standing beneath them 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 Blender screens of a pinstripe-suited character (FeyWolf) with white hair and green cuffs, plus a smooth grey female head below The fossil skeleton of Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis: her scattered bones — skull fragments, ribs, pelvis, limb pieces — laid out on dark blue cloth Sketchbook spread in gouache: black magnolia branches heavy with white pink-veined blossoms against fields of violet and lavender Sformo-Numbers Sketchbook 6 page dated 19 June 1990: worldbuilding notes for 'The SPARE Corp.' — psycho-technics, pneumatics, servomechanics, the Fates as Atropos/Clotho/Lachesis — 'Think about the future' The Piraeus Apollo: an archaic Greek bronze kouros mottled with green patina, standing with both forearms extended, one palm open Purple passion velvet plant, its fuzzy deep-purple serrated leaves overflowing a pale lilac pot QR code for the ProjectProject work The Mystery Dark digital drawing: a doll-like face buried in a storm of scribbled black hair over mottled green and magenta Sketch of a sphere labeled Classical Model, annotated with incidence of cool reflection, cool turning, neutral shadow, and warm light mass 3d Día de los Muertos sugar-skull mask, white with pink flower eyes, green petal lashes and red stitched grin Leonardo da Vinci's parachute sketch: a figure hanging beneath a sealed linen pyramid, mirror writing in the margin Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges in her dark marble altar niche at the Church of Our Lady, flanked by saints, candles, roses and pink blossom branches Sketchbook fantasy drawing in colored pencil: a pale long-haired figure raising a sword before a sea with a tall ship, a huge face dreaming in the sunset sky Silent Hill 2 graffiti in grainy red letters across two frames: 'There was a HOLE here. It's gone now.' Four subtitled film stills of Odd Nerdrum painting by candlelight, saying that to achieve something you need to know where you are in this world Stage photo from a Dido and Aeneas production: three women entwined around a spreading dark-blue gown while a figure in white scatters red rose petals across the black floor Sketchbook 42 spread: layered ballpoint and blue pencil sketches of sleepers — a face sunk into a pillow at left, a bald man asleep against his raised arm at right Entropy8Zuper! flag emblem: a black pennant with white 8 and zig glyphs waving inside a red circle on black Diptych of mirror self-portraits in a white bedroom: Auriea photographing her reflection, then the same mirror with the camera flash burst obliterating her face Text excerpt from James Baldwin: '...It was really a matter between me and God. I told him quite a long, long time ago there would be two of us at the Mercy Seat. He would not be asking all the questions.' Teiji Furuhashi's Lovers: life-size nude figures projected walking and running around a dark room, a scaffold tower of projectors at its centre Tiny sprite of a mosquito with green body and spread translucent wings Sketchbook 48 spread: art-history lecture notes from the Académie Royale on the Three Graces, Mantegna and Titian, facing a tender graphite study of a seated faun with a Santayana quote on Americans and junk Journal spread 'MY PERFECT LIFE 30': a diagrammed stomach with handwritten confessions at left, a scrawled dark figure and notes on vomiting as remedy at right, dated 27 June 92 Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2: the pale executioner in his rusted angular helmet dragging the enormous Great Knife through darkness Edvard Munch's Puberty: a naked adolescent girl sits on the edge of her bed, arms crossed over her lap, a heavy shadow looming beside her Colored-pencil drawing on gray paper: a dead tulip, petals collapsed like drapery over a ghost of yellow ZBrush sculpt in progress, close up: a dark-skinned female head tilted back, polygroup seams still visible across the cheek and brow, hair bound at the nape Three stags from The Endless Forest sitting and standing in dark woods, human faces and glowing runes floating over their antlers Cover of sketchbook 36: red Moleskine with a dark Polaroid of a braided head wrapped in red-veined tissue, a postcard of an ornate clock-tower shrine, and a skull sticker John Cage graphic score: fragments of notated staves coiling in a great spiral across the page Sketchbook 44 spread: Mary Flanagan's IndieCade keynote — her full-length portrait beside her list from Jacquard to Gygax — facing notes from Richard Lemarchand's USC class with studies of clasped hands and a wire tangle

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