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Abyssinian kitten enthroned on an iPad on a red cushion, huge ears up, beside a taped-up STAN theater poster Roma sketchbook spread 'S.P.Q.R.': ink studies of statues and angels with notes — 'It is a frightening thing when one culture supplants another... In Rome the Gods are truly dead.' Back cover of sketchbook 23B: dark red board with a vertical pasted clipping: 'She is a living example of the ancient theorem The Woman is a Sandwich Covered With White Marble.' — Max Ernst Self-portrait reflected in a botanical garden greenhouse pane, camera raised, autumn pines and roses tinted rose-gold through the glass Spolia-UI-Overview Sketchbook 41 spread: pencil and red ballpoint life-drawing studies of crouching and reclining nudes, with a handwritten list of painters — Morot, Shishkin, Carlsen, Mancini, Prud'hon, Vibert, Bonnat, Ribera 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 Auriea seated with an orange classical guitar, dreadlocks falling over a green tee, right hand spread across the strings Sketchbook 46: watercolor self-portrait in a grey tank top cradling a skull, with a note wondering whether to stop this book early before the vacation Spolia-Cutter Louvre sketchbook study in pencil and white chalk on grey paper: two views of a headless draped Aphrodite torso, the cloth knotted at her hips Cover of the earliest sketchbook, mustard yellow and dense with ink doodles: 'RIEA!', 'UTILITY SKETCHBOOK', Japanese characters, spirals, faces, 1989 Ghost-white ambient-occlusion bake of a girl's bust, blank eyes, floating over black shoulders Sketchbook 49 spread: two soft graphite studies of entwined wrestling nudes, limbs arched and knotted around each other's torsos Ink-wash self-portrait of half of Auriea's face in sepia strokes, one braid falling past her eye, the rest of the sheet left bare Sketchbook 47 Rome spread: colored-pencil study of legs against blue 'DIVO IOANNI' lettering, and a dense ballpoint drawing made standing at Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers — 'ROME III' Gustav Klimt's Medicine: Hygieia in red and gold at the base of a drifting column of entangled nude figures, a skull among them Hands in red light hold a Book of Blessings open to the Order for the Blessing of Centers of Social Communication Tiny animated gif of a figure rising from a small fire against black 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 diptych: blurred lattice shadow and a glass on a table above; a kitchen-roll on the windowsill overlooking a bare Gent courtyard below Yellow Vooruit FrictiesSalon flyer for a Tale of Tales talk, 13.02.07, over a dark painted forest with an abandoned swing set Tiny blurry webcam frame of Shari in a white shirt, head bowed over a desk in daylight Two frames from Ghibli's A Country Doctor–style animation: a boy leaping off a sea cliff, and sunflowers hanging over towering clouds, upside down Sketchbook 6 page: cipher key mapping invented circle-glyphs to English syllables — tha, the, thi, and, am, is, are, was, be, being, been, -ed, -ly A Gemini year-ahead horoscope: 'a big change is in the works… everything you've been thinking of changing will be greenlit, light by light, and in time.' Vatican City, Vatican City — The Borgo Angelico held her in its greenish gray — that muted tone of weathered plaster, the ground itself. Studio corkboard packed with sculpture clippings: bronze foundry photos, Johan Creten and Dirk De Keyzer pages, insects, casts, a blue clay head, 'IT WAS LIKE SO BUT WASN'T' John Collier's Clytemnestra (1882): the queen stands grim in a doorway between bronze column and curtain, gripping a long-handled axe, blood at the threshold Auriea and Michaël in profile, nearly nose to nose in the blue courtyard of the Casa Azul under the words 'Frida y Diego vivieron en esta casa 1929–1954' Four runway looks with furry animal masks — horned goat and sheep heads over tartan coats and prints Collage naming two Roman coins — Faustina's over a painted empress, Antonius' silver denarius below Woodblock-printed Chinese book page presenting the ʼPhags-pa script: columns of angular Mongol square letters glossed with Chinese characters Scan of a single leaf gilded entirely in tarnished silver, its serrated edge and stem intact against black Sketchbook 44, 'Summer, Jun 27': iris and leaves in vivid colored pencil growing past a shaded skull, journal notes on color and the Book of 8 project, over a printed Feu et Flamme page describing Parc Monceau Purple passion velvet plant, its fuzzy deep-purple serrated leaves overflowing a pale lilac pot Webcam frame: a man's face looms half out of frame at the right; behind him a brick fireplace, a television, and a small posable skeleton bent double Sformo-Bands Silent-film title card, white on black: 'Through me you pass into the city of woe… All hope abandon ye who enter here.' Nine well-used colored pencils and pastels fanned out on grey — silvers, blues, reds, black and brown Frans Floris, The Fall of the Rebel Angels: armored archangels with swords and shield drive a writhing avalanche of muscular demon bodies down out of the light Low-poly creature textured in ink-scratch black and white on dusty pink: a rabbit-eared armored beast with a raw pink mouth Both sides of Sonic Youth's first EP on SST cassette: clear shells listing The Burning Spear, I Dream I Dreamed, She Is Not Alone, The Good and the Bad Blender viewport for a VR lock: a pink segmented orb with a gold-lidded eye at its center, red tendrils radiating out beneath a spiked golden sun Sketchbook 47 Vienna spread: blue-pencil study after Correggio's 'Jupiter and Io', museum sketchers at easels, Klimt ornament motifs, and notes on the Secession's Beethoven Frieze and the Leopold Museum Fifty-song year-end playlist: UMO, Momus, Belle & Sebastian, Vivaldi's Stabat Mater highlighted, Jarboe, Joanna Newsom, Boduf Songs Entropy8Zuper International Garden Mural Invitational template: a courtyard with a sooty black wall and two green plastic chairs, above a blank measured mural diagram Sketchbook 44: the altered title pages of Zénaïde Fleuriot's 1888 novel Feu et Flamme — author struck through and replaced with 'Mvr A. Samyn', dated 1888–2012, ringed by the year's cities from Neuchâtel to Las Vegas Book page of Chris Crawford's definition of interactivity: 'a cyclic process between two or more active agents in which each agent alternately listens, thinks, and speaks' Andrew Wyeth's Barracoon: a nude figure lies asleep face down on white bedding against a scumbled umber wall

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