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Homestay snapshot from Kanazawa: the Okawa family — teenage son, father and grandmother — kneeling on tatami, beside the envelope back with their family details handwritten Grey 3D sculpt of three hands: one cradling an eyeball in its open palm, one clenched around another, and a limp hand lying with a ball between its fingers 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' Digital self-portrait painting: a woman with long braids looking straight out, framed by green leaves and small white blossoms on deep purple Near-black Blender render of grandmother's kitchen — chair, table and cabinets barely emerging from darkness, a lamp gizmo above ('Kitchen.001') Sketchbook 42 spread: graphite copy of a muscular bearded figure biting his knuckles, after a Sistine ignudo or slave, above a faint pencil tangle of folded limbs Inside the basilica of Fourvière in Lyon: blue-and-gold mosaic vaults, angel-topped columns, a glittering cylindrical chandelier against tall stained glass 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' Yellow poster in underlined black capitals: You are about to do something you shouldn't — The Game Is Up! festival, 7 to 16 February 2007 Photo of an open sketchbook held on a floral bedspread: 'NEVER DOUBT' painted huge in black over pages of smudged pencil writing, 'OK? O.K!' in the corner Roma sketchbook: study of Daphne's hands sprouting laurel leaves at her fingertips, drawn in ink across the spread The Instagram app icon: a white outlined camera on a purple-to-orange gradient rounded square Blurred photo of a mammogram machine in a beige clinic room, footswitches on the floor Back cover of sketchbook 15: torn brown pages of a 19th-century elocution book pasted over grey board, a hymn on angels still legible at left A three-dimensional digital sculpture of a standing female figure rendered in pale gray and white, viewed from behind with arms crossed, a long staff or pole extending vertically through the composition from head to toe. The figure wears flowing, draped clothing with horizontal scan lines and pixelated artifacts visible across the surface, suggesting a 3D model or point cloud visualization. Sketchbook 49 spread at the Sinebrychoff Museum, Helsinki: ink sketch of a St Anne 'protects against plague' painting holding Maria and Jesu, a light tangle of figures, and a shaded reaching hand Cover of sketchbook 3: black leather painted 'AURIEA'S SKETCHBOOK III' in purple around a photo of a hand with a chaos-star drawn on it, one eye peering past Network diagram of red nodes joined by curving grey lines, spiraling loosely like a galaxy on a white ground Sketchbook 40, IGS Cologne, Aug 15: pencil portraits of the indie games scene — Brandon Boyer, Michaël Samyn, Douglas Wilson — around the panel title 'Beyond Fun' iPod ebook page from Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid with highlighted lines: the goddess rose out of the depth and began the old story of how she was loved by a river Sketchbook 46 spread, Easter 2013: a smoky charcoal portrait of a long-haired girl doubled across both pages, with planetary notes — Mars blood and bone, Saturn teeth, Mercury brain — for a game about the body Polaroid from the seventies: a small girl in a white dress and tights grinning on a huge brocade sofa, feet not reaching the floor Close-up of a Path girl's face bottom half: sallow skin, wide dark hollow eyes, flat lips, red hair edges at the ears Back of sketchbook 38 and its spine: marbled green paper under a black inked cloud, leather corners, spine strips reading 'Der Geist des Rokoko' Reference collage for the cyclops: elephant and Deinotherium skulls, a museum proboscidean skull whose nasal cavity suggests one eye, Polyphemus sculptures and skeleton photograms Dell paperback cover of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time: a winged centaur rearing over dark mountains, a green face glowering in a crystal sphere Anime still: a green dinosaur mascot in a white apron offers baked snacks from a tray in a village street, subtitled It's really scrumptious! How about one? Garden corner with prikneus (rose campion) in bloom — magenta flowers on silvery stems among potted plants Sketchbook 35 diary spread relabeled December: a long-haired girl seen from behind, and again close-up kissing a dark bird's head, a game controller sketched below John Cage score page: circled constellations of pitch letters joined by lines, floating over conventional staves beside an ornate clef Sketchbook 46 spread: loose watercolor peonies in rose and magenta with sap-green leaves, blooming across the gutter of the tan pages Paper Enigma Machine by Michael C. Koss, 2003: printable rotor columns, reflector chart, and step-by-step encoding instructions on one sheet Museum vitrine with a device to measure the scent of a flower: white blossoms sealed in a glass bottle, tubing running to a small wooden pump box beside a porcelain jar Plain web background graphic: a flat grey field rising on a shallow diagonal into white at the top Six flash self-portraits in a green dress printed with red-capped mushrooms, dreadlocks loose, photographed from odd angles Tale of Tales's The Graveyard installed in the V&A Videogames exhibition: monitors, notebooks, and framed sheets along a dark gallery wall Three webcam self-portraits stacked: glowering by a window in a scarf, headphones on looking down, and a close smiling face 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 Small grainy GIF of Mr. T in his layered gold chains and mohawk iPhone tarot app, three cards on green wallpaper: Five of Pentacles, Seven of Pentacles, Nine of Cups Mac folder named Work, 20 items on a dark green desktop: 1am.m4v, Flower/Lock, TEF, TheGraveyard, Fatale, The Path, Vanitas, Sirens, Room 101, Au Tarot and more A dry twig with curled dead leaves lying on a pale surface, tiny white flower stickers pasted onto the dead leaves 3d raven from above, wings spread wide showing purple-striped feathers, gliding in the dark viewport Diptych by the wooden door: grinning in a fur-trimmed hooded coat, then hiding — pulling the hood down over her face Book paragraph on Mozart's finances, highlighted pink: 'neither he nor his wife had a good grasp of managing finances… they lurched from crisis to crisis' John Berger in a patterned shirt against a flat blue ground, a still from Ways of Seeing, BBC 1972 Journal page dated February 19: notes before Las Meninas at the Prado — 'surprised by brushwork, muddy and rough… the strokes being alive' — with two ink sketches Back cover of sketchbook 20: layers of cheesecloth painted pale blue and gold over damask fabric, tiny eyelets inked lower left 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 Sketchbook 40: notes from the Theories of Beauty symposium in Leuven under a blue KASK Cinema flyer, with a pencil drawing of a woman reading beside an hourglass

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