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Sketchbook 49 spread: dark graphite vignette of a seated figure with another curled beside it, facing a bending walking figure with bundled back, a lined older face, and scattered head studies Cover of sketchbook 19: mustard felt-covered board with a small window of antique printed text pasted at center Mac Finder search grid: sixteen identical copies of gold.gif, small square tiles of mottled gold texture 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 A Roland TR-606 Drumatix drum machine: silver face with accent and drum knobs above a row of sixteen grey step buttons Roma sketchbook: the baldachin's twisted columns brushed in heavy black ink beside writing — 'There is a certain perversity to St Peters... The angel stabs you in your own true heart' Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map: the world unfolded onto an icosahedron so the continents lie as one nearly unbroken island in a single ocean Textured 3d prop: a red-handled knife stuck upright in a green-topped tree stump Still-life painting: a human skull in profile shelved inside a rough wooden box beside a small glass bottle of clear water Bronze sculpture of Dryope: a nude woman mid-stride with a serpent winding up her body from ankle to shoulder, one hand crossed over her breast Sketchbook spread: pencil study of a shaggy black-and-white wolf standing guard, a red-hooded shape and a small drawn hand on the facing page Diptych: Filippo Lippi's Annunciation, angel kneeling before Mary among arcades — and a restaging on a sunny lawn, four friends posed before a little white chapel Still from Shadow of the Colossus: Wander on his black horse Agro wheels before a towering, moss-grown stone colossus Timothy Stotz's chart The Flowering Staircase, 1435–1935: five centuries of master-apprentice lineages from Michelangelo and Raphael down to Matisse and Ted Seth Jacobs Reference collage for the cyclops: elephant and Deinotherium skulls, a museum proboscidean skull whose nasal cavity suggests one eye, Polyphemus sculptures and skeleton photograms Cy Twombly untitled work: looping white crayon scribbles swarming diagonally across a grey ground Low-poly 3d white owl with wide yellow eyes perched on a bare branch, against flat grey Sketchbook 39, digital painting: a headless pair of legs and buttocks in flesh tones striding out of a deep violet ground Sketchbook 49 spread: pale blue-pencil studies of draped figures with a shield-like disc, beside a graphite arm and a slender standing nude with raised arm iTunes 'Enter Code' screen refusing a gift card: 'This code is only valid for customers of the United States store' 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 Hugo van der Goes's The Fall of Man: Adam and Eve stand naked by the fruit tree while the serpent, a lizard with a woman's head, watches Eve reach for an apple 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 Roma sketchbook: the Colosseum's arched wall brushed in ink with red scaffolding crosshatch, tourists reduced to black strokes — 'Colleseo' Poliriea: ZBrush render of a mauve cyclops head with tight sculpted curls and one teal eye, resting atop a striped ziggurat pedestal Sketchbook 41 spread: a wall of ballpoint portraits from a games conference in Montréal, labeled with names — Darren Wershler, Brian Greenspan, Jim Bizzocchi, Nick Montfort, Bernard Perron — and 'I cannot draw Thomas Grip' Sketchbook 44 spread: pencil profiles of faces and a hand with a ring, facing a faint mapped reconstruction of Alchemilla Hospital from Silent Hill — elevators, kids' room, kitchen — labeled 'SH1 endgame' Journal spread in black grease crayon: two slashed portrait heads emerging from darkness, a third small face lower left Tiny image of a woman in a white head-wrap looking over her shoulder, after the old master portrait Cover of sketchbook 8 (1990s): silver paint scrawled with dense handwriting around a torn red 'FRAGILE' sticker split by a lightning crack, above a Vitruvian-style figure in a grid Daniel Lefcourt's The Invention of Public Relations: gold-painted nuggets, a slide projector and carousel, rulers, gloves, and archive photos knolled on grey Sketchbook 49 endpapers: ex libris page with a photo of an Egyptian harpist relief at the Met and three blue Met admission tags (Feb 16–18), facing studies after Rubens nudes — Ghent, Paris, Dec 2013–June 2014 Spread from Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red, pages 4 and 5: what difference did Stesichoros make — adjectives as the latches of being, and red Geryon of Erytheia Sketchbook 38 spread: a night-blooming flower in pencil, pale petals reserved against a darkened star-flecked ground The Aristodikos kouros, ca. 510-500 BC, National Archaeological Museum Athens inv. 3938. The hands are lost but the stubs of the two struts that braced them to the thighs survive at hip height. Photograph by Gary Todd, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons. Sketchbook 38 fold-out: a quince studied twice — in soft graphite lying on its side, and in saturated watercolor hanging yellow against green Scanned spread from The Unbearable Lightness of Being, chapters 14 to 16: Tereza embraces a tree like a lost grandfather while the man with the rifle waits Line diagram of a Molotov cocktail: a taped bottle with labeled wick and fuel mixture Kiki Smith's bronze fountain figure: a standing nude woman on a pedestal, water trickling from her open hands, photographed against violet light Self-portrait as a point cloud: a figure with dreadlocks floats dismembered inside a white wireframe cube on an endless blue grid A sculptural bust featuring a bearded male figure in white marble or plaster, positioned in profile against a weathered green patina base with black and gold-spotted stone, set against a black background. The figure's classical features and flowing beard are rendered in sharp detail, while the contrasting materials and oxidized finish suggest an aged or intentionally antiqued decorative object. Black-and-white breakfast still life: Special K 'Bikini Challenge' box, Tropicana, milk, an empty bowl and a GEE games magazine The Endless Forest deer with a glowing white skull face and huge branching red antlers like coral fins, standing in fog Self-portrait reflected in a botanical garden greenhouse pane, camera raised, autumn pines and roses tinted rose-gold through the glass Sketchbook 39, digital painting: a bedside lamp with an orange shade glowing yellow underneath, on a brushy brown ground Spolia-Section-Slab Hand-tinted Meiji-era photograph of two women and an older man gathered around a game of Go on a low board, tea things beside them Twitter exchange: Auriea shares Monteverdi's First Book of Madrigals; Hasan Niyazi replies 'as if 1587 taps us on the shoulder and says remember — blessings' Sketchbook 47 spread in ballpoint: the sea stacks of Baia delle Sirene rising from calm water, rocky shore in loose outline across the foreground UV test texture: a grid of numerals 0 through 9 marching diagonally across squares of red, green, yellow, cyan, and purple

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