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Raw photogrammetry scan for The Flower Seller: a grey ragged-edged bust with a blurred face, an armful of thick-petaled blooms dissolving into scan debris
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.'
Black-and-white double exposure on 2nd Street: a blurred face streaked with motion in a mirror, plaster wall and shuttered window folding into shadow

The National Anthem

Studio wall: a charcoal torso study clipped to a board beside a whitewashed wall hung with USB cables, a mirror below reflecting an outstretched hand

Standing at the lit vitrines of Degas bronzes — dancers mid-leap on their plinths — sketchbook raised, silhouetted in the amber museum light

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

Early 3D render at 52 FPS: girls in white dresses scattered across a lawn under painted trees, one dark figure in a leaf-dappled dress up front — an army of she

Two blurry black-and-white film frames with sprocket holes: a young woman in a t-shirt gesturing, then smiling shyly

Hazy sunset over Ghent rooftops seen from the Pollepelstraat window: two pale suns — one real, one reflected — hang over silhouetted buildings and a crane

Novelty phone-message slip headed 'SADE (Shah-day)': 'While you were listening to Sade's DIAMOND LIFE album', with checkboxes like 'Phoned' and 'Wants to see you' over her faint portrait