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Aerial view of snowbound mountain range threaded by glaciers, clouds drifting over the ridges — Himalaya from the plane Ingres's Jupiter and Thetis: the sea nymph kneels against the enthroned god's knee, one arm raised to his chin in supplication, an eagle at his side 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 Diagram of the Hebrew letter aleph in thick black calligraphy, its strokes numbered 1 through 10 with pointer lines Sketchbook 46 spread: a museum cast of a male torso from behind, modeled in charcoal and white on orange paper, beside a lighter sketch of a spiraling sculptural group Two stacked book spines misread as one phrase: gold-stamped HISTORY above a red cloth spine reading THE CHALLENGE OF Nick Cave's From Her to Eternity in iTunes, track 4 playing, the young Nick Cave cover at left Textured 3d crow standing on flat chroma green, beak open mid-caw The fossil skeleton of Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis: her scattered bones — skull fragments, ribs, pelvis, limb pieces — laid out on dark blue cloth Spolia-Section-Slab Silenus cradling the infant Dionysus, Roman copy after a Lysippan original, Vatican Museums inv. 2292. A vine-wrapped tree trunk carries the composition, and a plain squared strut ties Silenus' lower leg back to it. Photograph by sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Sketchbook 45 spread: ballpoint analysis of Michelangelo's Battle of the Centaurs relief — figures blocked into boxy volumes at left, the writhing knot of bodies drawn organically at right Journal spread, Oct 1993: a collaged botanical print of roses beside a dream account, and cursive on grey-blue: 'In my life the furniture eats me...' Cover of sketchbook 22B: a dark overexposed photograph of a crowd raising round-headed forms, like a procession seen through fog Sketchbook page filled with dense spiral scribble columns, a small eye and profile drawn below, Japanese writing in the margin 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 Small verdigris bronze: a rough crouched form, part shell and part gilled fungus, raised on thin wire legs over a bed of cast leaves White vodou veve drawing on a dark grey ground — a starred, symmetrical crossroads emblem framed by two arcs Stage photo from Wim Vandekeybus's In Spite of Wishing and Wanting: bare-chested men in fuchsia skirts, one balancing in a deep arabesque, others crouched and turning William Henry Harvey, in glasses and an American Legion cap stitched with United States flags, raises a leather-gloved hand to its brim Hands holding open James Jean's Fables covers book: 'No. 67 The Good Prince' with knight and giants, and 'No. 43 Arabian Nights (and Days)' djinn spread Wireframe viewport of the virtual Labytaur: a latticed dome and radiating disc enclosing a cylindrical core, a small dark figure and inverted cone below Dense journal spread: an inked self-portrait beside a collaged red planet, columns of handwriting, and a blue profile facing a ghostly face — 'READ IT AND COMMIT ME' Sketchbook 49 spread: two soft graphite studies of entwined wrestling nudes, limbs arched and knotted around each other's torsos AP news graphic 'A broken heart is not just folklore': a grey figure with heart, brain, kidneys and numbered steps explaining stress-hormone cardiomyopathy, after the New England Journal of Medicine Dutch text on the Sadawaar, a beast of Byzantine lands from Kazwini: its horn of forty-two hollow branches sings sweetly in wind, and mournfully when reversed Long strip of overlapping webcam frames: a woman with braids, bare shouldered and eyes lowered, repeating and dissolving along a dark band Four Saint John test prints against orange: a white resin figure, black demon legs on a rod above a tiny reclining body, a small black figurine, and a bronze-patina cast 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 Sepia still life: a hand with dark nails at the edge of frame, two rough loaf-like stones, and a dark peony resting in a footed cup Sketchbook 41 opening spread on grey paper: attempts at painting the moon in gouache — 'clouds hiding her face' — waves in white ink, and a figure in a red-pink cloak on a dark thorned hill Spolia-Style-Smooth Cover of sketchbook 27: a cream string-tie envelope with red button closures, bordered in blue-and-orange Japanese fan paper, a faint face sketched at top Sketchbook 48 spread in pencil: a bowl of fruit rendered in soft graphite, a week's copying schedule (Centaur, Diana, Rivers, Tiber), and a dark bowed head — 'let go of the photographic eye, see the form' Gilded rococo openwork relief titled Christ and the Lamb: asymmetrical gold scrolls and foliage swirl over shaped mirror glass, the figures hidden in the ornament Belgian Senate ballot, 13 June 2010, pink paper listing 25 senators by party column; a hand with a pencil hovers over Groen! Screenshot from Ico: the boy in his red tunic and horned helmet reaches down from a wooden plank toward the pale, glowing Yorda in the castle gloom Spy Test Sketchbook 39: a woman in a slip drawn in charcoal and white chalk on kraft-brown paper, her head turned sharply in profile, hair swept up Four Magdalenes in ecstasy side by side: Artemisia Gentileschi's slumped Magdalene, Caravaggio's Magdalen in Ecstasy, an angel visiting the long-haired saint, and a polychrome sculpture detail Star Trek Voyager cast photo: Janeway front and center with arms crossed, the crew in red and gold uniforms around her Sketchbook 47 Rome spread: colored-pencil study of legs against blue 'DIVO IOANNI' lettering, and a dense ballpoint drawing made standing at Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers — 'ROME III' A pink-and-white peony bud leaning across the frame above a wooden floor — birthday flowers Max patch titled the larynx of frankenstein's monster: dozens of phoneme players wired into a gate, with the creature's demand for a female pasted alongside Sketchbook 49 spread in silverpoint-light graphite: a mustached man's face, a hand gripping a dark plum, a corked bottle, and a nude beside stacked studies of a bearded head and wing Sketchbook 32, Mediaterra day 2 'Gaming Environments': pages crowded with ballpoint portraits — Michael Mateas, Chris Crawford haloed mid-speech, notes on Deikto and immersion Photographed text titled Telling of the Bees: the custom of informing hives of a death in the household, whispering thrice that their mistress is dead Sketchbook 5 fold-out scroll: collage of a torso photograph, a surgical-instruments catalog page, an Elric of Melniboné 'Stormbringer' text, film strip, comic panel and handwritten x-ray notes with red measurements Night desk: an iBook showing a dark forest painting, in front of a big monitor with Blender open on a textured cube — Endless Forest work in progress Back cover of sketchbook 23B: dark red board with a vertical pasted clipping: 'She is a living example of the ancient theorem The Woman is a Sandwich Covered With White Marble.' — Max Ernst

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