Studio

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Flemish allegory of Fortune: blindfolded, she balances on a sphere in a stormy sky, shaking coins and goods from two hats over a scrambling crowd, a gallows at right

The studio worktable in 2017: a bronze head resting in a stone dish, a white David figurine, dark wax figures, a porcelain Venus on a box, and a teacup of tools
Sketchbook 38 spread in ballpoint: a park path curving under trees toward a small stone bridge, an empty bench in dappled shade
Lain's bedroom from Serial Experiments Lain: a girl hunched at a glowing monitor amid stacked computers and coolant cables, stuffed animals lined along the window

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 Alone on a bench in a crimson museum hall, hood up, notebook in hand, before Rubens' vast Martyrdom of Saint Livinus
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

Ana Mendieta's Body Tracks: arms raised high against a pale wall at the start of the drag, blood-dipped, the film grain in rainbow bands