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iTunes 'Enter Code' screen refusing a gift card: 'This code is only valid for customers of the United States store' Leonardo da Vinci's parachute sketch: a figure hanging beneath a sealed linen pyramid, mirror writing in the margin Cover of sketchbook 10: a dark window taped into mottled blue-green painted board, an X of white creases over a swirling green orb Cover of sketchbook 27: a cream string-tie envelope with red button closures, bordered in blue-and-orange Japanese fan paper, a faint face sketched at top Snapshot of Delacroix's Death of Sardanapalus detail — the bearded king gripping the arm of the nude concubine arched back against the red bed — stamped with a 2001 camera date Webcam self-portrait at 18h54: a sheet of handwriting held in the teeth over an open notebook and printed mandala images ThinkPad X201 tablet open, keyboard in the foreground; the glossy screen reflects the photographer instead of showing anything — the Eureka Maru ZBrush ZSphere reference table: illustrated rows of red-sphere diagrams explaining draw, move, scale, and rotate modes for building armatures Bernini's chalk study personifying St Peter's: a standing figure whose outstretched arms become the colonnades embracing the piazza 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 Metope's Face Sets tablet: the paint-regions switch, the list of sets with their colours, stone dropdowns and lock/hide flags, and the region tools — rect, circle, flood fill, smooth edges, fill with material or texture, and extrude set. Printed page on Korean p'ansori: a single singer and one drummer enacting entire epic folk tales, eight hours of song, speech, and stylized gesture 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 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' Hotel-room door detail: steel panel with white handle, ballpoint graffiti on the frame — 'JOHAN Je t'♥ gio 21/03/08' The Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) with its columned portico, a red cherry-picker parked on the front steps mid-renovation Back cover of sketchbook 48: green and brown marbled paper over worn boards with dark leather corners and a red cloth spine Tiny game screenshot: a figure standing alone in the middle of a cracked grey road through mottled green-orange terrain 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 Card of brief forms of Gregg shorthand in alphabetical order, 1963: a ruled grid of curling pen strokes, a McKay's price sticker in the corner Sketchbook 47 Naples spread: pencil studies after Caravaggio's 'Seven Acts of Mercy', two anguished theater masks, and a winged sphinx — 'Misericordias Domini in aeternum cantabo' 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 Cover of sketchbook 41: grey-blue board stenciled with curling vines, a moth sealed under a round window, a blue tape stripe and a Belgian lion patch Two low-poly grey toy soldiers posed like plastic army men — one swinging a club overhead, one striding with pistol drawn Endless Forest deer wearing the sugar-skull mask, black-bodied with glowing green skeleton markings, walking a sunlit clearing Scanner image of a dry vine sprig: red wiry stems and tiny dark berries branching off a woody twig on a black ground Sketchbook 49 spread: Louvre notes on Giulio Romano and Pannini's paired Views of Ancient and Modern Rome, a monk-robed figure, a wine-red crouching nude hiding her face, and a pietà study 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 Auriea Harvey, Iphigenia Spiral notebook page dated 10/1/87 written entirely in an invented cipher of hearts, triangles, and squiggles, one line ending in a burst of exclamation marks ZBrush close-up of a Path girl's hooded head, wireframed olive face with blank eyes inside a smooth grey hood Two photos: a wall scratched full of names and 'I LOVE' graffiti, and a red-lit stage with a small grinning performer between heavy curtains The Diadoumenos from Delos, ca. 100 BC, National Archaeological Museum Athens inv. 1826. A knotty tree trunk stands beside the left leg, hung with the youth's mantle and a quiver, almost detached from the body. Photograph by Francesco Bini, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Sketchbook 48 spread: reclining foreshortened nude in graphite, and an ink-and-wash seated woman with one green-stockinged leg — questions in red on using energy lines for invention and composition Untextured brown 3d man in a hooded jacket standing at rest in the Blender viewport — 144 character work Looking up through MinoRinth: a dark tree trunk forks overhead into pixel-dust foliage, the maze's green rings and grids dissolving in white glare Sitting small in red under a magnolia in full bloom at the pond's edge, drawing among the fallen petals Sketchbook 44, 'Things that happen at night', last night in Fenouillet, 27 July 2012: four ballpoint vignettes — a hill against storm light, wind through a dark window, a man in darkness, a figure day-for-night FlightView tracker map: flight DL5372 en route from Indianapolis to New York over a weather-radar map of the eastern US Cover of sketchbook 38: a misty black-and-white photo of a Japanese garden framed in Kodak TX film-box edges, collaged over torn German book pages with red initials Tiny animated gif of a figure rising from a small fire against black Five views of Object 01: a small polished bronze head of Auriea, bald with serene features, shown in the hand, on a black pouch, and beside a leather notebook The Pleiades star cluster: the seven sisters blazing blue-white inside wisps of reflection nebula on a dense starfield Unity editor view of MinoRinth: the scanned point-cloud tree spreading over circular maze walls, brick towers, and purple stones around a green center Kiki Smith's Lilith: a black bronze woman cast from life, crouching upside down high on the gallery wall, glass eyes looking back over her shoulder Roman studio in morning sun (photo on its side): gilt rococo mirror on a bare wall, pine shelving with white sculptures and skull, an open notebook of red-chalk drawing Small grainy black-and-white photo of Sonic Youth: Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Steve Shelley posed against a dark wall A black Oxford city bicycle against a wall, the whole photo washed in rainbow gradients from red through magenta to green Digital charcoal studies of two Michelangelo figures: a twisting bound slave washed in yellow, and a second figure with arm raised overhead Text excerpt from James Baldwin: '...It was really a matter between me and God. I told him quite a long, long time ago there would be two of us at the Mercy Seat. He would not be asking all the questions.'

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