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Homestay snapshot from Kanazawa: the Okawa family — teenage son, father and grandmother — kneeling on tatami, beside the envelope back with their family details handwritten Sketchbook 32, page 53: pencil figure studies — a man standing hands behind back, and a woman with sunglasses on her head playing a flute Sketchbook 42 spread: ballpoint portraits on tan paper of a sleeping woman with braided hair, eyes closed, and a baby looking down, mouth open mid-babble Tarot spread on a bright Kandinsky-patterned cloth: a cross layout with a side column of four cards, one card face down Spolia-UI-Menu Sketchbook page in faint pencil: a domed high church on a cliff above the sea, with ruled text beginning 'The high church of Oorcon looms massively...' Wide still from Bill Viola's Going Forth By Day: a procession of people carrying bags and jackets walks steadily through a sunlit pine forest Sketchbook 46 spread: two graphite dancers pressed back to front, one gripping the other's hip, beside a black gouache figure with a raised brush-stroke arm Sketchbook 47: watercolor of Vesuvius smoking above a band of blue sea, with Ovid's Fasti IV quoted below — the prayer of Romulus for Rome, written within sight of Vesuvio, 2 Aug 2013 Cover of 'Boris Vian de A à Z', Obliques No. 8–9: the title in bold purple cut-out letters over diagonal yellow and magenta stripes John William Waterhouse's Consulting the Oracle: a priestess by lamplight speaks to a semicircle of veiled women leaning in around a marble floor Plain pale pink square swatch Square medium-format photo: a drainpipe kinking down onto a flat tar roof, brick school building and fenced windows behind, morning haze Sketchbook 31 spread: a hand-drawn map of Rome's rioni with the blue Tiber winding through — Trastevere, Trevi, Esquilino, the Colosseum — 'ROMA v. 842006 - 1142006 A.D.' Sketchbook 48 atelier spread: notes on light value and planar orientation with a shaded sphere diagram, facing a seated female nude annotated with trochanter, shadow side, and 'GRANDEUR — carve into the largeness of things' Roma sketchbook: ballpoint sketch of Bernini's Cathedra Petri in St Peter's — the dove window radiating over the bronze throne and four doctors of the church — '147 popes' Wax maquette for the MinoRinth Maiden: a terracotta-toned child's head with cow ears crowned by carved roses, strands of white beads falling from the ears, on a 3D-printed stem Back of sketchbook 38 and its spine: marbled green paper under a black inked cloud, leather corners, spine strips reading 'Der Geist des Rokoko' Atta Kim's long-exposure Making Love: two bodies dissolved into a single yellow-green cloud of light on darkness Daniel Lefcourt's The Invention of Public Relations: gold-painted nuggets, a slide projector and carousel, rulers, gloves, and archive photos knolled on grey Airmail envelope from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 90 Park Avenue, addressed to Ms. Auriea L. Harvey Standing in split-toe tabi boots on a concrete doorstep, grey trousers pushed into the black boots, a number-printed black skirt above Spolia-Section-Square Live 3D scan of someone sprawled on the couch, rendered as white sculptural relief — 59fps, 1.93 million points and counting Hugo van der Goes's The Fall of Man: Adam and Eve stand naked by the fruit tree while the serpent, a lizard with a woman's head, watches Eve reach for an apple ThinkPad X201 tablet open, keyboard in the foreground; the glossy screen reflects the photographer instead of showing anything — the Eureka Maru Inside cover of sketchbook 20, winter 1993: an inked self-portrait on sky blue under the printed word 'EINLEITUNG', golden grasses collaged over the chest Twitter exchange: Auriea shares Monteverdi's First Book of Madrigals; Hasan Niyazi replies 'as if 1587 taps us on the shoulder and says remember — blessings' Six panels of charcoal spiral scribbles, black and white, ending in handwriting: 'practise makes perfect BUT perfection is BORING.' Joseph Beuys's Eurasia Siberian Symphony 1963 in three photos: taxidermy hare on poles against the chalk-drawn panel, plus the museum label Close detail of a Van Gogh flower still life: asters and chrysanthemums in pink, ochre, and red built up in thick ridged impasto strokes Split screen: a folder of vanitas skull paintings beside a YouTube documentary about painter Fuyuko Matsui, a woman in kimono seen from behind Mike Libby's mechanical insect: a real cicada with orange-and-black wings spread, its body replaced by tiny watch gears and a red jewel Portrait of sculptor Kiki Smith in her overgrown back garden, grey curls loose, tattooed hand raised mid-thought Narrow interface background strip: a rounded black bar fading downward into white Broken 3d export: a pink low-poly suited figure with an enormous black cylinder skewered diagonally through its head to the floor Tweet by Hasan Niyazi: 'Like paper & ink before it, technology became a conduit for emotion. People clutch devices of metal & silicon, cherished to their hearts' Sketchbook 48 spread: sanguine and red nude leaning on one knee beside notes on contour as 3D horizon and mise en page, facing a graphite figure bending into shadow Kaleidoscopic double exposure of a bouquet — pink gerberas, celosia and veronica mirrored into symmetry on a kitchen table Sketchbook 49 spread in silverpoint-light graphite: a mustached man's face, a hand gripping a dark plum, a corked bottle, and a nude beside stacked studies of a bearded head and wing The same portrait head resolved: black woman in a white headwrap on ochre ground, after Benoist's Portrait of a Negress Spolia-Section-Slab Hands in red light hold a Book of Blessings open to the Order for the Blessing of Centers of Social Communication Medical diagram of suturing techniques: over-and-over, mattress, subcuticular, Lembert, Cushing, Halsted, Connell, and purse-string stitches 19th-century anatomical plate: dissected shoulder and arm of a bowed figure, muscles and arteries hand-colored, with key text above The bunny-eared girl textured: red bob wig and blue flame-like ears over a wireframed cream face — Path girl in progress Walking behind someone on a sandy path between grassy dunes, cigarette in hand, long shadows Four loose cards from sketchbook 47: a candlestick still life, the Farnese Hercules from behind, an ecstatic upturned face with raised arm, and a light gestural nude stepping forward The Late Raphael exhibition catalogue with a thank-you note signed Auriea, above her sketchbook of pencil copies after Raphael's Saint Michael and putti Sketchbook 44, 'Summer, Jun 27': iris and leaves in vivid colored pencil growing past a shaded skull, journal notes on color and the Book of 8 project, over a printed Feu et Flamme page describing Parc Monceau

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