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Spolia-Style-Pelt-Detail Torn scrap of paper, its lower edge charred: a finely drawn eye rains rows of blue teardrops, tiny handwriting threading through the lashes The Darwin fish emblem: the Christian ichthys grown stubby legs, with DARWIN lettered inside its body and a small fish in its toothed mouth Warped panorama selfie in the courtyard of the Rubens House in Antwerp — sun flaring over the head, the baroque portico bent around both sides Book page from Liao Yiwu's The Corpse Walker: an interview in which Li describes the old profession of walking a corpse home in pairs, chanting 'Ya, ho, ya, ho' Two ancient Egyptian black stone heads with damaged noses, side by side on museum stands — one with wig, one curly-haired 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 Sketchbook 32 spread from the Met's Asian galleries: pink brush sketches of Krishna battling the horse demon Keshi, notes on Durga and Shiva, and a seated Maitreya Bodhisattva face in ink Finder window 'heaven and earth': cover-flow preview of an open exhibition catalogue on black, 17 numbered photos listed below Max von Sydow as Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon, gloating in a red high-collared uniform beside a white rocket in a rivet-walled corridor Girl with long blond hair sitting close to a TV, customizing a cartoon monkey's fur colors in a game menu 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 Distant game-engine test: the small Lumpy Girl figure standing alone on a flat dusty purple plain, seen from far away 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 Chalk drawing on red-brown paper: two arms reaching upward and a tilted, smiling face — study of a straining Eros from the Louvre Tempest gameplay: a blue wireframe funnel plunging into blackness, the yellow claw shooter at its rim firing down at red and purple enemies Cover of sketchbook 32, dark side: black cloth crossed by red elastic cords hooked through the corners of a QRS player-piano-roll label Sketchbook 38 spread: charcoal sketches of the blackened statues on Charles Bridge, birds swarming around a saint's head Sketchbook 38 spread in ballpoint: a park path curving under trees toward a small stone bridge, an empty bench in dappled shade Spolia-Style-Cloth-Detail Skeptical Cat meme: an orange cat glowering over the caption Skeptical Cat is fraught with skepticism 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 An antique red-and-gold binding of Vecellio's Costumes Anciens et Modernes given new blank pages — old spine, bare label panel, fresh paper inside Upside-down black-and-white portrait: a smiling face hanging inverted out of a hood of dreadlocks against white In the Ghent Altarpiece restoration studio: Van Eyck panels on easels, a hand holding up a blue 3d-printed hashtag arthistory in the foreground Painting of a grim place setting: a small head surfacing from a plate of dark soup, spoon, napkin, and a glass of pale wine on white linen BBC photograph of a black crested macaque crouched in jungle foliage, peering intently into an object held up to its face 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.' Soft-focus black-and-white studio portrait of a girl with dark marcel-waved hair and dark painted lips, gazing steadily at the camera The Graveyard grandmother's face in wireframe over textured skin, black beret, on flat sky blue Cover of sketchbook 25: dark green cloth with a small black-and-white photo of Devils Tower and three red ribbons hanging down Diptych: looking up through an olive tree's branches at blue sky; below, a woman with dreadlocks and a smiling grey-bearded man lying in the grass Sketchbook 49 spread at the Met's Raphael drawings: graphite nude from behind, quoting 'keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges' Two photos: a wall scratched full of names and 'I LOVE' graffiti, and a red-lit stage with a small grinning performer between heavy curtains Annotated Quest3D screenshot: a tangle of linked channel blocks with pink circles and arrows marking which body and motion nodes were already there Sketchbook 46 spread: charcoal study of a man hauling himself up a ladder into shadow, and opposite, a white-faced ram's head peering past an ornately carved cabinet New York Times clipping from 1883 recounting Ingres confronting Delacroix at dinner — 'Drawing, Sir, drawing is honesty! Drawing, Sir, drawing is honor!' — spilling his coffee in his fury Chromed belt buckle of an eagle in flight with blue banners: LIVE to RIDE, RIDE to LIVE Sketchbook 44: pencil drawing of the ruined castle of Fenouillet on its rocky hilltop, drawn as an outline map of boulders with touches of violet ink Inverted photo: bare legs dangling from a silver-insulated ceiling above shopping baskets of toys — a mirror-world garage Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth in a 1990s Calvin Klein ad, seated on a couch in a sheer black dress and heels, the CK logotype over the image Blender wireframe of the old woman's head in profile over her reference photograph — retopology of the grandmother Four rough alpha screenshots of MinoRinth: wireframe foliage over the spiral labyrinth, a dark scanned beast on a plinth, a black column on red rings, and the green orb under gold walkways Two-page spread from One Hundred Years of Solitude in which José Arcadio Buendía insists the day is still Monday, the time machine broken Colossal marble head of Medusa asleep on a rock, her face tipped back, wrapped in a mane of thick coiling snakes Collage 'Cautionary Tale': a watercolor figure with exposed bones walking on green ground, framed by torn handwriting and a small anatomical leg diagram Purple passion velvet plant, its fuzzy deep-purple serrated leaves overflowing a pale lilac pot Sketchbook ballpoint portrait of a laughing boy in an open jacket, eyes squeezed shut, a flame-like doodle rising beside his shoulder A gray kitten sits bolt upright on the studio's wide plank floor between the piano, its stool, and the open pine door A gilded baroque sculptural composition featuring a human skull at its center, flanked by two golden cherub figures and ornate architectural elements including scrolled moldings, set against a black background. The work exemplifies memento mori imagery, combining precious metalwork with skeletal symbolism in an elaborate three-dimensional arrangement. It is also the icon of my MacBookPro.

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