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Barry back from Iraq: seated on the couch in a white keffiyeh and brown robes, photographed in warm low light The fossil skeleton of Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis: her scattered bones — skull fragments, ribs, pelvis, limb pieces — laid out on dark blue cloth White brushed hand-lettering on black reading MEDUSA@entropy8.com, painted like chalk strokes Sketchbook 38 spread: the roof view again — a sunset skyline in pink and indigo above, and a brick chimney rising through clouds at right 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 Cover of sketchbook 24: grey-black felt with a gold eagle medallion reading 'Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Modern World' Academic pencil life drawing on cream paper: a nude woman with pinned-up hair seated with legs crossed, gazing off to the left, highlights in white chalk MinoRinth sky: a blinding white sun ringed in violet, radiating light streaks through drifting sepia clouds crossed by yellow-green vines Mirror self-portrait in the Louvre's terracotta rooms: phone raised between the panes of a black vitrine full of small antique figures, a visitor rubbing her eyes at left Potted arrangement of pale green sedum rosettes with reddish edges, one spray of small yellow flowers, in a white bowl Vija Celmins night sky: white stars of varying sizes scattered dense across a black field Printed page on Korean p'ansori: a single singer and one drummer enacting entire epic folk tales, eight hours of song, speech, and stylized gesture Two life-size gilded skeleton sculptures hold an oval mirror in a dark shop window; the photographer stands reflected between them, all in black Joseph-Benoît Suvée's The Invention of the Art of Drawing: the Corinthian maid traces her lover's lamplit shadow on the wall as he gazes up at her 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 Journal page: the Parsons 'fine arts' senior thesis exhibition card, 1993, above taped photo strips of small sculptures — 'this was a very good idea' in pencil QuickTime windows of dance-studio clips: a dancer improvising alone on a black floor marked with tape, seen from the corner — Drama Princess motion reference Spread from C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces, pages 168 and 169: Orual presses Psyche about her unseen husband, monster, shadow, or god of the Mountain Sketchbook 49 spread of Donatello studies: St George and the Dragon relief with a large horse head, the pointed-hatted profile of Saint Louis de Toulouse, and notes on Spiritelli and Brunelleschi vs. Ghiberti Sketchbook 49 spread: graphite sketches of conference speakers — a man in glasses folded into a chair with a microphone, a cross-legged panelist, and a bearded man in beanie and thick glasses Cover of sketchbook 34: a bluethroat songbird collaged upside down with a sprig of blossoms, over rosy paint on black board with a red rectangle above Film still of the Queen of the Night: a crowned soprano with a crescent-moon staff rises from painted clouds inside a swirling tunnel of stars Sketchbook 38 spread, 'The Roof view': a chimney and a patch of green moss and lichen spreading across pale roof slope in watercolor Sketchbook 33 spread: two great black ink blots mirrored across the gutter like a Rorschach figure with outstretched arms, faint pencil sketches beneath Family posing under Louise Bourgeois's giant spider Maman: a woman in black, a man, and a small girl in a red coat, grey sky above Hand-drawn anarchy symbol: a rough black brushstroke A crossing through a circle The Graveyard, wide crop: the old woman with her cane passing the chapel bench, urn-topped monuments pale behind her Handwritten notebook page in blue ink headed Museum Quality Artwork: notes on institutional credibility, the frame of the museum, and the aging of bytes Small white clay maquette from behind: a kneeling Magdalene with long incised hair holding a skull up at arm's length, face to face Sketchbook spread in blue ballpoint: a large portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at right, smaller faces, a crown and 'KING' sketches at left Tiny green-on-black terminal: 'Everything is Ok — Bonnie-2:~ Auriea$' Portrait of sculptor Kiki Smith in her overgrown back garden, grey curls loose, tattooed hand raised mid-thought Blender wireframe view of a cluster of bare trees for The Endless Forest, black lines on grey Sketchbook 44 spread, 3 September, model session: soft pencil sketches of the same nude bending, kneeling and seen from the back, poses overlapping across the gutter Collage for MinoRinth: two mirrored profiles of Auriea joined like a Janus head, each face half-hidden by a horned grey bull's head 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 Glaze strength inside a groove, by groove width and Pool scale Yellow pillow-box package printed with concentric white rings: Patch to stop caring about love John Singer Sargent's Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth: the actress in a green beetle-wing gown raising the gold crown over her own head with both arms Low-poly grey 3d model of a hunched old woman in a headscarf and long skirt — The Graveyard's grandmother, untextured Diptych: fingers parting hair to show a small cut on a scalp, beside a close-up of a pink peony — accidents happen Sketchbook 47 Rome spread: full-page graphite study of a sprawling classical nude with an arm flung overhead, beside grotteschi from Palazzo Doria, a Pietro da Cortona sketch, and notes on feeling at home in Rome 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 40 spread planning the Sunset Appreciation Society game: door verbs, bookmark grids, a purple-clouded screen sketch, and lists — sunset alarms, sunset paint by numbers Sketchbook 32 spread: a bushy tree in dried-blood red wash, and opposite, a chestnut tree in sanguine beside an Art Nouveau gate — 'with Laura in the park (citadel), 2006' Sketchbook 35 diary spread: close-up of a dalmatian-spotted jacket and a zigzag-lipped fish face with a button eye, opposite a loose contour figure climbing Airmail envelope from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 90 Park Avenue, addressed to Ms. Auriea L. Harvey MinoRinth: the dark bronze Minotaur figure dances on yellow wireframe ground, its horned shadow thrown huge across the deep red wall The planet Mercury as a thin grey crescent against black space, its cratered limb lit along the right edge Book page of Oscar Wilde's preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, pencil-marked at 'No artist has ethical sympathies' and ending 'All art is quite useless'

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