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Abstract digital painting in reds and flesh pinks: smeared strokes, tangled dark lines and glossy tubular forms over an orange ground Sketchbook 48 spread: notes on Bernini and Poussin at a dinner party, Michelle's advice on chalk drawing, Subleyras and the 1740s turn to Neoclassicism — 'David, the father of us all' Night desk: Wacom tablet showing a painting in progress of a girl in a forest clearing, laptop with the reference scene, headphones and the watercolor tin nearby Louvre sketchbook study in pencil and white chalk on grey paper: two views of a headless draped Aphrodite torso, the cloth knotted at her hips A work desk: white iBook, black keyboard, Wacom tablet and mouse, a Dell monitor showing a portrait in progress, daisies in an orange vase Two clear printed head-bottles beside their signed label: 'Object #3 — Head of a Negress in the Form of a Plastic Vessel, 2018, Auriea XLVI. This head has been checked for leaks, but be careful.' Standing at the lit vitrines of Degas bronzes — dancers mid-leap on their plinths — sketchbook raised, silhouetted in the amber museum light Two low-poly grey toy soldiers posed like plastic army men — one swinging a club overhead, one striding with pistol drawn Journal spread filled edge to edge with handwritten lists of symptoms and side effects: cramps, dizziness, numbness, hallucinations, page after page in black ink 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' 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 Black-and-white still of Harrison Ford as Han Solo, crouched with blaster drawn in front of the Millennium Falcon Hero-machine comic cover: 'The Mighty Splintery Splinter' — a red-wrapped figure with a stick over its shoulder against a night skyline Self-portrait in a round mirror by the wooden door, camera at eye, in a black sweater with dreadlocks tied back Audio editor screenshot: stereo waveform swelling to a dense block of sound just before the 1'00 mark Cover of sketchbook 39: half marbled paper veined in red, half grey felt with visible stitching, a pen clipped into the top edge The same head fallen sideways, eyes closed, long white hair streaming — an Ophelia-like sleeping face Torn scrap covered in handwritten 'yes yes yes' around a Tale of Tales Endless Forest calling card and a blue A PRIOR airmail sticker Sketchbook 22B spread: photos of a sculpted head-jar and a brooch-studded form on scorched paper, opposite a mirrored double self-portrait photo above silver foil — 'I give you 1995 of my 23rd year' E-book page with a note reading What I strive for when I write, pinned to Bloy's description of Huysmans dragging the Mother Image down the staircase of terrified Syntax Vector-flat forest study in two registers: thin black saplings on flat blue above, dense white frost-like branches and pale trunks below Polaroid from the seventies: a small girl in a white dress and tights grinning on a huge brocade sofa, feet not reaching the floor A branch of lunaria held before a lamp, its papery translucent seed pods glowing amber and pearl Sketchbook 41 spread: Sunset Appreciation Society notes with a lighthouse lamp drawn in ballpoint, a turreted house, and below, gouache studies of a fountain and an ultramarine stair tower with the persons of the play (Salomé) listed Mac OS X desktop collage: an mp3 player showing 'King Of Sorrow' (4:51 left), a webcam widget and a clock over an ornate collaged background Sketchbook 42b: dark charcoal study of the Belvedere Torso from behind, the muscled back twisting above the truncated thighs against heavy hatching ZBrush sculpt for MinoRinth: a child-faced figure with blank eyes, cow ears, and great curved horns, hair braided up into a knot Sketchbook 47 spread: ballpoint life drawings — a bald man in profile, a bending figure with hanging hair, and overlapping reclining and seated nudes 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 Blurred black-and-white frame: pale hands and limbs smeared in motion against darkness Belgian identity card in a black wallet — the new Belgian ID — and below, freshly twisted hair seen from above The koer through open kitchen windows: pink Japanese maples and spring green, binoculars and clutter on the sill, a wine bottle at the edge Digital self-portrait painting: a woman with long braids looking straight out, framed by green leaves and small white blossoms on deep purple Björk in profile for Medúlla, her dark hair braided into an elaborate crown that arcs off her head and veils her face — photo Inez & Vinoodh Two states of a 3d girl's face: buried in rainbow scanline noise above, and smooth with one glass eye looking out below Louise Bourgeois's giant bronze spider Maman standing over James Ensor's grave beside the brick church tower of Our Lady of the Dunes, Ostend Sketchbook 38 spread: rooftops in watercolor — a mottled brick gable at left, storm clouds and a dark slate roof-line against blue at right Table of the Celtic tree calendar: thirteen months from Birch to Elder or Myrtle, the tree of death, with thorn, heath, poplar, and fir for the seasons The Late Raphael exhibition catalogue with a thank-you note signed Auriea, above her sketchbook of pencil copies after Raphael's Saint Michael and putti Almost-black room: a dark silhouetted head in the foreground, a man's face lit by a screen at the far desk, an icon poster on the wall Journal spread dated Friday 22 October 1993: a purple-sweatered figure with a scribbled dark face, and a lightbulb sketch holding two tiny figures Sketchbook 48 spread in pencil: a draped baroque saint clasping a bundle against dark shading, an orange domed chapel on the horizon, and a soft study of figures on rocks Orientalist painting of Salome: a dark-haired woman with hoop earrings and bared breast in a red sash skirt, gripping a brass platter and blade The Laughing Man logo from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex — a winking smiley ringed by the circling Salinger quote 'I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes' Sketchbook 46 spread: two graphite dancers pressed back to front, one gripping the other's hip, beside a black gouache figure with a raised brush-stroke arm Collage for MinoRinth: two mirrored profiles of Auriea joined like a Janus head, each face half-hidden by a horned grey bull's head Sketchbook 32 spread from the Met's Asian galleries: pink brush sketches of Krishna battling the horse demon Keshi, notes on Durga and Shiva, and a seated Maitreya Bodhisattva face in ink 3d Día de los Muertos sugar-skull mask, white with pink flower eyes, green petal lashes and red stitched grin Paper background texture shaded all over in soft grey pencil strokes Raphael's Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan: the winged archangel in blue and gold descends with raised spear onto the demon writhing on the rocks

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