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Hand-drawn anarchy symbol: a rough black brushstroke A crossing through a circle Villa medici and the Black congress — She came to Viale della Trinità dei Monti at the hour when the stone begins to hold the day's heat like a secret. Animation frame of Captain Kirk from the Star Trek episode Plato's Stepchildren, source of his kiss with Uhura Sketchbook spread of draped gowns drawn in ballpoint: a dark radiant dress labeled 'A Foolish Virgin' and two pale robes labeled 'A Wise Virgin' The Instagram app icon: a white outlined camera on a purple-to-orange gradient rounded square Black-and-white hunting-lodge room crowded with taxidermy — moose and deer heads, geese, a pheasant — with a small color photo of an embracing couple collaged on the wall Walton Ford's Falling Bough: a massive branch borne aloft by a swarming flock of passenger pigeons, breaking apart against a pale sunset over the river plain The fossil skeleton of Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis: her scattered bones — skull fragments, ribs, pelvis, limb pieces — laid out on dark blue cloth Sally Mann's Virginia #42 (2004): huge varnished silver print of a freckled sleeping face, eyes closed, gallery caption below 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 Astrodienst natal chart for Michaël: Cancer sun, Virgo ascendant, blue and green aspect lines crossing the pale wheel Evening primrose (teunisbloem) seen from above at night, two pale yellow flowers on a rosette of narrow leaves, photographer's shoes visible below Sketchbook 46: soft pencil drawing of a crowned Madonna statue with hands pressed in prayer, ringed by a halo of roses Shoulder tattoo in progress: green Japanese waves curling around dark smoke-grey clouds, two red petals falling, partly outlined panels near the shoulder blade The Graveyard in black and white: the old woman with her cane walking the central path between crosses toward the chapel Sketchbook 47 Cologne spread in ballpoint: Kölner Dom interior with a red-robed cleric, a Madonna ringed by votive crosses, an octagonal labyrinth and gothic tracery — 'to draw is to confess?' Odd Nerdrum's painting The Singer: close-up of a hooded figure with head thrown back, mouth wide open in song against a mustard ground A solid red square Sketchbook 46 spread: loose watercolor peonies in rose and magenta with sap-green leaves, blooming across the gutter of the tan pages Sketchbook 43 dedication, Ghent, 18 March 2012: a night-blue gouache of star wheels over rooftops, facing Lucretius's invocation to life-stirring Venus copied in red-brown ink Grainy video still: a figure in a homemade paper dress printed with the two towers of the World Trade Center The Path work-in-progress: dark girl with striped top in an overexposed poppy field, a pale scarecrow figure looming behind her Screenshot from Ico: the boy in his red tunic and horned helmet reaches down from a wooden plank toward the pale, glowing Yorda in the castle gloom Sketchbook 49 spread in wine-red pencil: a laurel-crowned nude seated in thought with hand to chin, and a heavily draped figure gathering her robes as she steps forward 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 Detail of a Roman unswept-floor mosaic, the asaroton: fish bones, shells, fruit stems, claws, and a tiny mouse strewn across white tesserae Charles-Auguste Mengin's Sappho: the poet in black veils bare-chested on a sea cliff at dusk, lyre at her hip, eyes downcast Two self-portraits of Auriea at 25 with short locs: leaning against a car on a mountain road, and among junipers at the rim of a canyon Four pinned cicada specimens beside a millimetre ruler, shown from above and below, dark bodies with amber-veined translucent wings Sketchbook 35 diary spread: close-up of a dalmatian-spotted jacket and a zigzag-lipped fish face with a button eye, opposite a loose contour figure climbing From behind: drawing on a stone bench by a green pond, sketchbook open on crossed legs, locs down the back, trees doubled in the water Animation frames from Eraserhead: the pale-cheeked Lady in the Radiator standing with clasped hands on her small lit stage between dark curtains 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. Ink sketchbook page of antlered stag studies — one full body with heavy fur, two roaring heads, loose antler diagrams Hazy sunset over Ghent rooftops seen from the Pollepelstraat window: two pale suns — one real, one reflected — hang over silhouetted buildings and a crane Church marquee for Memorial Baptist Church: 'Ain't no party like a Holy Ghost party, cause a Holy Ghost party don't stop' A tissue-lined box packed with translucent 3D-printed head-shaped bottles, their screw necks rising from the crowns like bottle caps Cover of sketchbook 44: a red 19th-century publisher's binding stamped in gold, titled 'Feu et Flamme', the author's name blacked out — an antique book altered into a sketchbook A carpet of round nasturtium leaves with a few hidden orange flowers, seen from above Graphite study of a marble torso's thighs, a carved hand gathering the robe aside at the waist, with a smaller drapery sketch alongside Abramović and Ulay, Breathing In/Breathing Out: two faces locked mouth to mouth, trading one breath back and forth Sketchbook ballpoint page: a big-haired figure gazing sideways, an ear study, a diagram of arrows around a circle, and a small drawing of a girl in a room Sketchbook 40, Schloss notes: a red ribbon whipping between inked topiary and hedges, sketches of chandeliers and a fountain in a room, notes on hidden servant doors In the Ghent Altarpiece restoration studio: Van Eyck panels on easels, a hand holding up a blue 3d-printed hashtag arthistory in the foreground The Endless Forest running on a museum kiosk: metal arcade cabinet with yellow joystick, four buttons and a recessed screen of forest Astrodienst natal chart for Riea: Gemini sun, Libra ascendant, the aspect lines webbing red and blue across the wheel The word NOW in soft-edged black letters, set diagonally and dissolving into a pale blue ground The planet Mercury as a thin grey crescent against black space, its cratered limb lit along the right edge Cover of sketchbook 7 (1990): white spiral book covered in pink lipstick kisses, inked 'Auriea Sketchbook VII — chaos is my life — Pseudo Quasi Real', 20 Aug–26 Sept Sketchbook 38 spread in charcoal: the gothic buttresses and pointed windows of St Vitus close up, and a small sketch of Charles Bridge arches over the river

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