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Page from a Dutch Tiny (Martine) children's book: text about Tiny's circus above an illustration of her as a small ballerina curtsying in a spotlight among water lilies Bleached scan of page 45 of Borges's The Garden of Forking Paths: everything happens to a man precisely now, and the narrator inventories his pockets Photocopied menu of Pizzeria Prima Donna: thirty-four numbered pizzas from Margherita at 3.75 euro to Fantaseer zelf, with a Leaning Tower logo 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' Five penitent Magdalene paintings side by side, including Georges de La Tour's candlelit versions, each with long hair, a skull, and upturned eyes Sketchbook 42b: second charcoal study of the Belvedere Torso, seen from the front with the chest collapsing toward the cut thighs, a small profile sketched above Blender screenshot: a girl's head model mid-retopology, orange wireframe patch over the cheek of a shaded doll-like face Journal spread: a crosshatched ink head with hollow eyes among falling leaves — 'what a horrible way to go, to be crushed...' — opposite a page of pencil writing Sketchbook 49 spread: pale blue-pencil studies of draped figures with a shield-like disc, beside a graphite arm and a slender standing nude with raised arm John Cage score page: circled constellations of pitch letters joined by lines, floating over conventional staves beside an ornate clef Quote card — Ingres said: 'Drawing is three-fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over the door of my atelier, I would write: School of Drawing... and I'm certain that I would create painters.' Victor Hugo's ink and sepia-wash drawing of an octopus, its curling tentacles emerging from golden-brown stains Grainy still of a small gold figure curled into a ring, floating mid-air against beige — falling gilded body Cover of sketchbook 2: rows of white profile heads drawn on black leather, a few picked out in blue, pink and green, with a chaos star — 'Auriea Harvey's Sketchbook II' Cover of sketchbook 49: dark green cloth with a pasted photograph of a granite Egyptian head on its museum pedestal Self-portrait as a point cloud: a figure with dreadlocks floats dismembered inside a white wireframe cube on an endless blue grid Blurry snapshot in a pink tank top printed with a roaring purple monster, mid-gesture Sketchbook 46 spread: notes on Viktor Shklovsky's 'Making Strange' and estrangement in art, a small self-portrait with twisted locs, and a nude holding dark lilies drawn in pencil and sanguine Metope's radial palette, opened over the work: a ring of wedges for view, paint, glaze, texture, set, colour, tools and display, with the current tool named in the centre. Film still: a small blond child reaches up toward a brown hotel door numbered 404 — page not found Scanned spread from The Unbearable Lightness of Being, chapters 14 to 16: Tereza embraces a tree like a lost grandfather while the man with the rifle waits Sketchbook 50 spread on grey paper: graphite-and-white studies of a kitten asleep on its back, paws curled, with separate sketches of its ears and toe pads The Metope Atelier interface: the glyph spine at the left, the Tools tablet pinned open with all twenty shape tools and the brush controls, the Material tablet at the right, and a relief in progress in the viewport. Zoe Leonard's typewritten text I want a president, 1992, beginning "I want a dyke for president" and ending on presidents who are always clowns, liars, thieves Background tile of thin gold threads wandering and crossing over a white field 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' Digital figure study of a thin androgynous figure in profile, eyes closed, sketched in pale flesh tones on brown with white scribbled ground Close-up of a Path girl's face bottom half: sallow skin, wide dark hollow eyes, flat lips, red hair edges at the ears Sketchbook 40, IGS Cologne, Aug 15: pencil portraits of the indie games scene — Brandon Boyer, Michaël Samyn, Douglas Wilson — around the panel title 'Beyond Fun' Copper photogravure plate for Saint John the Baptist held in the light: Auriea's face reflects inside the etched figure's hood, a blue fingernail at the edge Saint Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent seen from the belfry: the great Gothic west tower rising over the city's rooftops under a white sky Abramović and Ulay, Rest Energy: she holds the bow, he holds the drawn arrow pointed at her heart, both leaning back Back cover of Huysmans' Against Nature (Oxford, tr. Mauldon): 'It will be the biggest fiasco of the year — but I don't care a damn!' Four video stills of the Mediterranean surf breaking over pebbles, sun glittering on the water Sketchbook 32 dark side spread: pencil sketches of family on couches — a woman reclining with cats curled below, a young woman seated, studies of faces Magritte's The Treachery of Images: a smoothly painted pipe above the cursive caption Ceci n'est pas une pipe Journal spread 'MY PERFECT LIFE 30': a diagrammed stomach with handwritten confessions at left, a scrawled dark figure and notes on vomiting as remedy at right, dated 27 June 92 Two cartoon theme-park map details: the Cobra loop coaster marked 48, and the wooden Weerwolf/Loup Garou coaster marked 6 The Graveyard-era prototype: two white vases in an endless field of red poppies, above dark text panels of overlapping muttered dialogue Cover of sketchbook 18: a silhouetted photo-booth portrait taped under wrinkled white tissue streaked with rusty red drips Sketchbook 49 spread on Michaël Borremans at BOZAR: thumbnail sketches of 'The Avoider', 'The Garment', 'The Angel' and 'The Devil's Dress' with notes, facing ballpoint figures from 'The Storm' 35mm projection loop Example #22 installation view at Kassel: two glass vitrines of small sculptures against a cloud-painted blue and orange wall, heads glowing inside the upper case Three murky frames from Silent Hill 4: a grainy monochrome ceiling, a huge fist against a lit corridor, and a row of apartment windows over a courtyard Sketchbook 48 spread: atelier maxims on block-in and contour — 'no straight lines in anything ever', 'limbs start turning before the joint' — facing a faint gesture sketch of a striding horse Bronze sculpture of Dryope: a nude woman mid-stride with a serpent winding up her body from ankle to shoulder, one hand crossed over her breast Blank transparent spacer gif from the old web Nick Cave's From Her to Eternity in iTunes, track 4 playing, the young Nick Cave cover at left Sketchbook 49 spread on small baroque bronzes at the Louvre, 30 Dec 2013: tangled sketches of centaur battles and Ovidian groups, a red reclining figure, and two experiments in failed balance The Graveyard, wide crop: the old woman with her cane passing the chapel bench, urn-topped monuments pale behind her Circular fountain basin ringed by thin jets of water catching evening light, dry grasses in the foreground

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