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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 Mirrored webcam self-portrait: face doubled down the center line, drinking from a glass, dreadlocks framing both halves Page from Chip Sullivan's Drawing the Landscape: exercises for drawing with a pencil in your mouth, an ink-dipped stick, your nose, and finally with your eyes closed Double page from Hokusai's Manga: sketched vignettes of kneeling figures — a startled couple, a shamisen player, a monk, and a gossiping pair — with brush captions Sketchbook 38 spread in charcoal: the gothic buttresses and pointed windows of St Vitus close up, and a small sketch of Charles Bridge arches over the river Black-and-white diptych: blurred lattice shadow and a glass on a table above; a kitchen-roll on the windowsill overlooking a bare Gent courtyard below Path character sheet '4_Ruby': five polaroids from small red-haired child to the black-bobbed girl in striped top MinoRinth screenshot: looking down a vast fluted brown pit toward a small green labyrinth disc ringed in white at the bottom, a pink light-arc curving across 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' 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 Potted arrangement of pale green sedum rosettes with reddish edges, one spray of small yellow flowers, in a white bowl Four dark photo-collage panels from Ceremony of Innocence: a winged nude under a full moon, a doubled sleeping head, a shrouded figure wound in threads, and a plate of dark cakes Close-up in the Magdalene case: black acrylite and polished bronze Magdalene figurines clutching skulls before a tablet, above a notebook page of questions written in the saint's cave J.W. Waterhouse's Circe Invidiosa (1892): the jealous sorceress in a dark peacock gown stands on the water, pouring luminous green poison from a wide bowl Booklet page for The Books' It Never Changes to Stop: the sampled schoolteacher's monologue — 'Sit up straight and be quiet... absolutely still, every eye closed' — set as a poem 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 Digital painting on teal: a gaunt pale-faced figure bowed forward, wrapped head to foot in long dark red-streaked hair, bare hands and feet showing Bleached scan of page 45 of Borges's The Garden of Forking Paths: everything happens to a man precisely now, and the narrator inventories his pockets The Rhine from a car window: Cologne Cathedral's twin spires on the skyline, barges below, a hand resting on the sill in shadow Velázquez's Queen Mariana in the Met's gold frame: black court dress with silver trim, red rosettes, a white handkerchief in hand Cy Twombly's Poems to the Sea, 1959: twenty-four white panels of scribbled pencil, oil, and wax crayon evoking horizon lines, numbers, and sea-script Black-and-white photograph of the Auschwitz gate, the wrought-iron ARBEIT MACHT FREI arch over the empty road between barracks A modular synthesizer built into wooden cases on slender antique legs: two tiers of patch panels and dials above a keyboard 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 Roma sketchbook: dense ink trees in the Vatican gardens under writing about tourism and dedication — 'genetics be damned in my spirals' Dutch growth chart of pale blue body silhouettes from two-month foetus to 25-year-old adult, heads aligned along red horizontal lines Penguin cover of Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice: a kneeling woman in an open kimono between a samurai helmet and orchids with skull-faced blooms 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 Cover of sketchbook 6 (1996): crumpled white spiral notebook inked 'Auriea Part 6' over a taped clipping reading 'sex, life, and the cosmos…', dated 8 May–20 Aug 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 Sketchbook 49 spread in wine-red pencil: sleeping subway riders, a heavy downcast face, and two men leaning close over something in their hands Cover of sketchbook 41: grey-blue board stenciled with curling vines, a moth sealed under a round window, a blue tape stripe and a Belgian lion patch Charles-Auguste Mengin's Sappho: the poet in black veils bare-chested on a sea cliff at dusk, lyre at her hip, eyes downcast Sketchbook 45 spread: graphite life studies of a seated male nude torso with crossed legs at left, and a slumped figure with an arm swung out along a dark bolster at right Young hemelsleutel (sedum) plant with broad grey-green leaves in a terracotta pot on brick paving IGN PC games front page with The Path Hands-On featured in the carousel between Burnout Paradise ads Subtitled frame from Serial Experiments Lain: Lain holds up a small chip between herself and her mirrored double — 'If I install this chip...' A single seedling pushing up through dark soil, seed husk still capping one cotyledon like a hat Grainy video still: a figure in a homemade paper dress printed with the two towers of the World Trade Center Sketchbook 49 spread: three charcoal-grey figure studies — a heavy nude bending with hands on knee, a striding draped figure with sword strap, and a fainter climbing figure Gopher-browser screenshot of Dorothy Parker's Comment: 'Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song... And I am Marie of Roumania' Three-part 3d modeling progress: dark doll face with white eyes, a head exploding in cyan normals-hair, and a wireframed face close-up 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. Black-and-white still of Harrison Ford as Han Solo, crouched with blaster drawn in front of the Millennium Falcon Sketchbook 48 atelier spread: notes on light value and planar orientation with a shaded sphere diagram, facing a seated female nude annotated with trochanter, shadow side, and 'GRANDEUR — carve into the largeness of things' Spread of the Archimedes Palimpsest: faded Greek minuscule and geometric diagrams ghosting beneath the later prayer-book text 3d modeling tutorial on limb deformation: three wireframe cylinders comparing edge-loop layouts that keep elbows and knees from collapsing Palma il Giovane's Jael and Sisera: bare-shouldered Jael kneels with hammer raised, driving the tent peg into the sleeping general's head Roma sketchbook: watercolor along the Tiber in greens, and below, the column of Romulus and Remus drawn sideways amid writing about finding Bernini's tomb

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