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New watercolor tin open on a plaid lap: two rows of half-pans from reds through blues to ochres, a water brush laid across Cover of sketchbook 19: mustard felt-covered board with a small window of antique printed text pasted at center Sketchbook 32: Carpeaux's Ugolino and His Sons sketched from the back in sanguine wash, the huddled figures knotted together Vija Celmins night sky: white stars of varying sizes scattered dense across a black field Entropy8Zuper! flag emblem: a black pennant with white 8 and zig glyphs waving inside a red circle on black Joseph-Benoît Suvée's The Invention of the Art of Drawing: the Corinthian maid traces her lover's lamplit shadow on the wall as he gazes up at her Subtitled frame from Serial Experiments Lain: Lain holds up a small chip between herself and her mirrored double — 'If I install this chip...' Roma sketchbook: a gnarled old tree brushed in ink, its roots gripping the ground before an arched arcade Back cover of sketchbook 49: dark green cloth with a pasted photo of an open book — 'Relation du naufrage de la frégate La Méduse' — and an embossed rooster Paint coverage across a stroke, before and after — measured from the colour buffer Spacecraft photograph of Jupiter's moon Io half in shadow, a volcanic plume erupting in a bright arc off its upper limb Song lyrics hand-lettered in black marker filling a yellow legal page, beginning ring them bells and ending in rows of small asterisk stars Page from a Dutch lexicon under U, Uurwerk: water clocks from Egypt and Vitruvius through Su Song and al-Jazari, ending on sultan al-Kamil's candle clock of twelve doors Portable studio on a desk: black felt pencil roll, tiny travel watercolor set with stained mixing lids, sketchbook, tea mug and laptop Three tiny black bird silhouettes flying across a long white banner Journal spread dated Friday 22 October 1993: a purple-sweatered figure with a scribbled dark face, and a lightbulb sketch holding two tiny figures Roma sketchbook: a weeping face drawn in red pencil beside a Palazzo Barberini ticket dated 10/05/2006 and postcards of Canova's Pauline Borghese and Caravaggio's Narcissus Sketchbook 43 spread from a hospital room, 1 June 2012: pencil studies of the draped bedside table, IV drip lines, a faucet, and a hand cradling a heart-rate clip — 'Oh Venus, where did I go wrong?' Handwritten shorthand alphabet on dotted paper, a to z over their stroke signs, with the quick brown fox pangram written out in shorthand below Two renders on hot pink: a flat grey slab with two black pegs, then the slab split open showing a black gap — Halloween minimalism Still-life twice: a paper napkin folded into a stemmed glass with a sip of port, in black-and-white and in color against cardboard Cover of sketchbook 45: a small oil painting glued to the black cloth board — two extracted molar teeth painted thickly in ivory against a deep teal ground Sketchbook 35 diary spread relabeled December: a long-haired girl seen from behind, and again close-up kissing a dark bird's head, a game controller sketched below The print studio bench against pink walls: a crowd of small sculptures — printed heads in a dozen materials, black falling figures, gold twins, glass jars — with an iPad, a pencil study, and a sticky note pricing it all at ONE MILLION EURO Diptych: Filippo Lippi's Annunciation, angel kneeling before Mary among arcades — and a restaging on a sunny lawn, four friends posed before a little white chapel Robin Minard's à voir, en silence: a black boxed edition holding a grey CD in the lid and a handwritten score sprouting wiry stems tipped with small piezo discs Journal spread: a red panel with a dark folded form at center, flanked by dense pages transcribing a conversation — 'he had been paralyzed from the waist down...' Grid of fifty identical grey 3D heads showing facial morph targets: rows of subtle brow, eye, and mouth shapes, one mouth open wide mid-shout Photographed text titled Telling of the Bees: the custom of informing hives of a death in the household, whispering thrice that their mistress is dead Year Zero at bitforms: the ziggurat of sculptures in the dark blue room, the projected mandala now burning orange and gold around a small blue rosette Webcam diptych in reds and pinks: a woman in an orange shirt at a keyboard, then her hand on the piano keys below Gramolazzo · 13 Jun Unity editor: camera and sound gizmos hovering over a ground plane textured with a black-and-white cloud sky Playlist mixing Stanley Lieber's GOKU tracks with Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I–IV and FLAMES.GIF songs Leonardo da Vinci's parachute sketch: a figure hanging beneath a sealed linen pyramid, mirror writing in the margin Metope's Canvas tablet: the canvas shape modes (rectangle, circle, polygon), the block width, height and depth fields with the resize anchor, the block material dropdown with its reroll die, and the new-slab button. Till We Have Faces, pages 292 and 293: Orual chews the strange bread of the gods, declares herself Ungit, and despairs that no man will love an ill-favoured woman Inverted photo: bare legs dangling from a silver-insulated ceiling above shopping baskets of toys — a mirror-world garage Sketchbook 44 spread: pencil profiles of faces and a hand with a ring, facing a faint mapped reconstruction of Alchemilla Hospital from Silent Hill — elevators, kids' room, kitchen — labeled 'SH1 endgame' Further along: the Circe master copy after Waterhouse, drapery and throne beasts more resolved Sketchbook 45 spread: pencil copy of a church sculpture — a bearded God the Father flying with billowing drapery, arm outstretched — beside studies of trousered legs kneeling on a cushion Sketchbook 45 opening: a grisaille gouache self-portrait, eyes glancing sideways under a dark fringe, facing a black brushstroke and the inscription '45, Mars Black, 13 Nov 2012' Film still: a man and a woman stand in a wet green garden watching a wooden barn burn, from Tarkovsky's Mirror Sketchbook 40, Lido 30 May: beach umbrellas in blue ballpoint, a palm frond, a yellow-lit Venetian facade with flower balconies, watercolor swatches down the edge 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 Self-portrait against a projection: standing in a black feathered coat, eyes down, while blossoms and branches wash over the wall and face 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 Sketchbook 47 Rome spread: full-page graphite study of a sprawling classical nude with an arm flung overhead, beside grotteschi from Palazzo Doria, a Pietro da Cortona sketch, and notes on feeling at home in Rome Cover of sketchbook 21A, 'The Disease Manifesto': white moon and streaked clouds on black-blue night, a pasted caption reading 'Night; stars and a bright moon.' Plain web background graphic: a flat grey field rising on a shallow diagonal into white at the top

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