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Bernini's Rape of Proserpina, close: Pluto's fingers sinking into her marble thigh and waist, stone made flesh Reading Ovid at 03:16 — iPad page of the Metamorphoses with Medea's lines underlined in red: 'It's useless to fight, Medea… This, or something akin to it surely, is what they call love.' Metope's Material tablet: the PIGMENT and FIRED preview balls beside the colour well, sliders for roughness, metalness, emissive, clearcoat, subsurface and granulation, glaze flow and glaze colour, and the collapsible material library. Sketchbook 49 spread: studies after Rembrandt's Man with the Golden Helmet at the Gemäldegalerie, and Géricault at Ghent's MSK — severed-head studies, phrenology marbles, and the 'head of a monomaniac' The Graveyard, wide crop: the old woman with her cane passing the chapel bench, urn-topped monuments pale behind her Blingee'd black-and-white Crater Lake photo: animated stars and sparkles, 'Merry Christmas!' stamped in the corner 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 Two frames: copper leaf laid with tongs onto a girl's closed eyelids, then her face with gilded eye sockets running in metallic drips like tears Sketchbook 40, 'Going Forth By Day': Gent to Venice by train — a blue-inked station kiosk, and sleeping passengers in faint pencil — 'every now and then it lets out a high pitched scream' Young hemelsleutel (sedum) plant with broad grey-green leaves in a terracotta pot on brick paving Sketchbook 45: tonal pencil drawing of the back of Martha's head, loose blonde hair falling over an embroidered blouse against a dark shaded ground Torn scrap of paper, its lower edge charred: a finely drawn eye rains rows of blue teardrops, tiny handwriting threading through the lashes Sketchbook 43 spread: two soft graphite studies of the same seated bald model over faint journal writing — from behind at left, from the side with folded hands at right Sketchbook 40, 'Plan V': a hand-drawn watercolor map of the Venice trip — the Grande Canal, Lido, flight numbers, hotel notes, two instant photos taped on, 'we sat here + kissed' Sketchbook 46 spread: sanguine life studies — bent legs and a standing torso on the white page; on the orange page a sprawled male nude heightened with white chalk, legs splayed 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' Louise Bourgeois marble sculpture: a torso-like form clustered with smooth white breast shapes, carved from a rough-hewn block Labeled map of ancient Rome: the seven hills in orange within the red line of the Servian Wall, the Tiber, Tiber Island, and the Field of Mars at left Morning's desktop, windows fanned out: a 'How to Draw the Voronoi Diagram' blog post, tumblr fashion images, palm fronds, a rose-garden double exposure, a bun of locs MinoRinth sky: a blinding white sun ringed in violet, radiating light streaks through drifting sepia clouds crossed by yellow-green vines MinoRinth from above: green-edged concentric maze rings curving below brick towers, their walls stitched with dotted purple seams Sketchbook 46 spread: life-drawing session painted over a violet watercolor ground — standing, bending and cross-legged nudes reserved in white, one small figure in full dark wash Sketchbook 42 spread on tan paper: ballpoint café portraits — a man's face cropped at the glasses, and a woman with an updo, round earring and choker glancing back over her shoulder Abramović and Ulay, Breathing In/Breathing Out: two faces locked mouth to mouth, trading one breath back and forth Side view of Auriea's sculpture Fauna: a child's serene face emerging from a cracked white plaster-like head veined with gold, one long ear drooping, on a dark printed base Sketchbook 32, page 34: pencil study of Rodin's Old Courtesan ('She Who Was Once the Helmet Maker's Beautiful Wife'), her bowed bony body in profile Split screen: a folder of vanitas skull paintings beside a YouTube documentary about painter Fuyuko Matsui, a woman in kimono seen from behind Five studio views of the Fauna head circling from front to back: the long-eared child's face, the horn bud, and the gold-filled fissures crossing the white skull Lecture slide: detail of Bernini's marble hand pressing into Proserpina's flesh, paired with a proportional construction of a face labeled Fig A Inside back cover of sketchbook 38: a sun-bleached Polaroid self-portrait among bare branches, hair falling over the face, taped beside a German page on 18th-century literature AP news graphic 'A broken heart is not just folklore': a grey figure with heart, brain, kidneys and numbered steps explaining stress-hormone cardiomyopathy, after the New England Journal of Medicine AP photograph of the yeti crab Kiwa hirsuta: a white deep-sea crab, its long arms shaggy with pale silky bristles Quest3D tutorial titled Multi-texturing the Earth: handwritten arrows explain copying a grass surface to a dirt surface with a black-and-white alpha map Belgian driving-theory exam sheet from the GOCA centre, 24 September 2012: 'Uitslag Theoretisch Examen — Geslaagd' (passed), receipt stapled below iPhone tarot app, three cards on green wallpaper: Five of Pentacles, Seven of Pentacles, Nine of Cups Janine Antoni's Lick and Lather: two self-portrait busts side by side, one licked-down chocolate, one washed-away white soap, on classical pedestals Rick Owens–style runway look: model wrapped in a grey-brown scarf-dress with knit cap, long gloves, and shaggy fur boots Sketchbook 43 spread: graphite studies of a bent leg and hand holding a pen, and on the right page feet dragged mid-stride, toes trailing across shaded ground Studio corner crowded with wood frames holding small game-screenshot prints, art postcards pinned above a green cutting mat Cover of sketchbook 44: a red 19th-century publisher's binding stamped in gold, titled 'Feu et Flamme', the author's name blacked out — an antique book altered into a sketchbook Animation frames from Eraserhead: the pale-cheeked Lady in the Radiator standing with clasped hands on her small lit stage between dark curtains Odd Nerdrum's painting The Singer: close-up of a hooded figure with head thrown back, mouth wide open in song against a mustard ground A scanned drift of currencies: a fifty-million-Mark Reichsbanknote, a US two-dollar bill, Egyptian pounds, assorted coins, and a pink hundred Spread of the Archimedes Palimpsest: faded Greek minuscule and geometric diagrams ghosting beneath the later prayer-book text Palma il Giovane's Jael and Sisera: bare-shouldered Jael kneels with hammer raised, driving the tent peg into the sleeping general's head Charles-Auguste Mengin's Sappho: the poet in black veils bare-chested on a sea cliff at dusk, lyre at her hip, eyes downcast Intricate red paper-cut wall piece: a horned skull crowns a cascading tree of veins and drips sheltering small figures, birds, and a truck at its root A grey Russian Blue mother cat nursing three newborn kittens on white towels in a basket Journal spread dated 20 Nov 1993: 'not in the same way nicotine addicts are addicted to cigarettes' painted over a murky face, a blue skeleton stamped at right Blender wireframe view of a cluster of bare trees for The Endless Forest, black lines on grey

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