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Four frames from the Magnetosphere music visualizer: red tangles around white globes, pink threads on magenta, and golden particle bursts in blackness French poster for Wong Kar Wai's 2046: an embrace in black over neon Hong Kong signage, the title in gold Caravaggio's Judith Beheading Holofernes: Judith in white drives the sword through the roaring general's neck, blood jetting, an old maidservant waiting with the sack Sketchbook 44 spread from a private model session: pencil crouching nudes at left; at right three heads on a grey gouache ground — a pink-cheeked profile facing a bald man, a shaved nape beyond 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 Illustrated chart of ten knots with handwritten labels: overhand, figure-8, reef, sheet bend, carrick bend, bowline, clove hitch, timber hitch, taut-line hitch, sheepshank Digital painting of celosia flowers in a green vase, olive greens on a brown ground with rough pale yellow brushwork around it Six stacked frames from Strange Days: the 11:59 millennium countdown, balloons and confetti over the crowd, and Angela Bassett with braids inside a car Sketchbook 46 frontispiece on orange paper: A. E. Stallings's poem 'The Island of Skyros' copied out under a painted title, with a ballpoint still life in the corner — Ghent, NYC, Indianapolis, Belgrade, March–August 2013 QR code for the ProjectProject work Sketch for a Cyclops Three stems of yellow loosestrife (wederik) with whorled yellow flowers against a peeling white wall, beside a metal drainpipe Sketchbook 44 spread: pencil studies after ceiling figures — a flying woman with wind-blown drapery carrying an infant, and a second tumbling figure seen from below Maerten de Vos, The Temptation of Saint Anthony: demons haul the saint into the sky by his cloak while below Anthony walks past lions, a devil-drummer and an elephant with a howdah Book page of Oscar Wilde's preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, pencil-marked at 'No artist has ethical sympathies' and ending 'All art is quite useless' Cover of sketchbook 11, black leather-grain board with a small pasted label: 'THE NEW SCHOOL MUST FALL! LONG LIVE PARSONS!' 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 12A: worn grey-green board mottled with dark stains, taped spine, and a tiny white '#12' label at center BBC photograph of a black crested macaque crouched in jungle foliage, peering intently into an object held up to its face Mag's first form: a reclining figure fresh off the SLA printer in deep purple, still on its lattice of supports, a smaller twin beside it among bronze and stone kin Three views of a 3d scan of an Artemis statue in short belted chiton and hunting boots, rendered in a blue and bronze matcap against black P·P·O·W gallery graphic for The Unbody, May 6 to June 9 2021: Auriea's dark green Ox Apotheosis sculpture, a horned bull-headed figure enthroned, floats on blue Before and after, two selfies: long dreadlocks past the chest, then cut to chin length, holding up the severed hair with a grin (a face photobombing below) Side view of Auriea's small bronze Magdalene raising a skull before her face, photographed on a windowsill beside a cream-white rose Sketchbook 48 Paris spread: Louvre notes on the Marie de Médicis cycle and Musée Rodin — 'La Lumière de l'Antique', the Belvedere Torso's influence, sketches of headless draped figures Blurry mirror selfie in an ochre bathroom, flower decals on the glass and a green L on the wall, camera in hand Sketchbook 22B spread: a pencil drawing of a nude sleeper stretched across both pages amid pink stains — 'never before has reality been so appealing...' Hands leafing through the Ray Caesar Art Collection monograph: the masked cover girl, a spider-legged theatre box, big-haired doll portraits, a drawing index page Tiny green-on-black terminal: 'Everything is Ok — Bonnie-2:~ Auriea$' Year Zero at bitforms, the rose-pink room: framed monotypes and drawings, a shelf of small dark maquettes, and a white figure on its bracket Sketchbook 32 spread: a dark inked barn and farmhouse among trees with a small blue butterfly collaged at center — 'Hamilton, NY, USA, CC retreat, 2006' Digital painting after a life photo: seated nude with red hair, arms crossed over her face, pale body against near-black Sketchbook 48 spread: art-history lecture notes from the Académie Royale on the Three Graces, Mantegna and Titian, facing a tender graphite study of a seated faun with a Santayana quote on Americans and junk Sketchbook 48 atelier spread 'Studio Escalier + Florentine Renaissance': two curving figure studies wrapped in notes on disegno, CHARIS (gift, elegance, love), Degas and 'the fury of the figure' Black-and-white diagram of the lost circular pavement labyrinth of Santa Maria in Trastevere: eleven concentric mosaic rings around a dark center 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 45 spread from the Vrije Academie Wednesday-evening session: graphite studies of legs — a pair bent at the knee in profile, and a standing pair from mid-torso down Sketchbook 42 spread: graphite copy of a muscular bearded figure biting his knuckles, after a Sistine ignudo or slave, above a faint pencil tangle of folded limbs Path character sheet '6_Scarlet': polaroids of the eldest sister, red-bunned and severe, painted portrait style, with a forest reference photo Poliriea: ZBrush render of a mauve cyclops head with tight sculpted curls and one teal eye, resting atop a striped ziggurat pedestal Sketchbook 40, Köln museums spread: Roman mosaics and hairpins from the Germanicus museum, notes on Käthe Kollwitz's 'Frau mit totem Kind', and inked towers over park trees 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' Sketchbook 49 spread: graphite sketches of conference speakers — a man in glasses folded into a chair with a microphone, a cross-legged panelist, and a bearded man in beanie and thick glasses A modular synthesizer built into wooden cases on slender antique legs: two tiers of patch panels and dials above a keyboard Sketchbook 46 spread titled 'The Audience': overlapping colored-pencil studies of a group of nudes in graphite, brown and wine red — standing, crouching and turning as if watching something 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 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 Metope's Material tablet: the PIGMENT and FIRED preview balls beside the colour well, sliders for roughness, metalness, emissive, clearcoat, subsurface and granulation, glaze flow and glaze colour, and the collapsible material library. Sketchbook 40, 'Plan V': a hand-drawn watercolor map of the Venice trip — the Grande Canal, Lido, flight numbers, hotel notes, two instant photos taped on, 'we sat here + kissed' John Berger in a patterned shirt against a flat blue ground, a still from Ways of Seeing, BBC 1972 Labeled map of ancient Rome: the seven hills in orange within the red line of the Servian Wall, the Tiber, Tiber Island, and the Field of Mars at left

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