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The Endless Forest running on a museum kiosk: metal arcade cabinet with yellow joystick, four buttons and a recessed screen of forest Dozens of telephone lines crossing a pale evening sky, small birds strung along the farthest wire by a streetlamp Belgian practical driving-exam sheet, 12/06/2014: 'Uitgesteld' — deferred — with the examiner's litany of Voorbehoud and Onvoldoende line by line A robed figure sits alone on a vast expanse of rippled desert sand, golden light raking the dunes — an image from Lawrence of Arabia Paper background texture shaded all over in soft grey pencil strokes Nine well-used colored pencils and pastels fanned out on grey — silvers, blues, reds, black and brown Bare studio with peeling walls: a large-format camera on a tripod facing a trestle table, cold window light, paint-spattered floor The Archive to Come at Telematic gallery: a dark room where a projection of two golden particle faces hovers on blue between bright screens on the walls Roman mosaic labyrinth: a square meander maze ringed by a mosaic city wall with towers and gates, corner ornaments at the edges Tiny image of a woman in a white head-wrap looking over her shoulder, after the old master portrait The Minories vitrine in Example #22: the horned faun bust flanked by the crumbling gilt infant head, a rose-crowned terracotta head with pearl earrings and two small dark imps Sketchbook 51 spread in sepia ink at 'Rubens privé', Antwerp: thumbnail copies of Rubens self-portraits, Isabella and Helena, with notes — 'Rubens cannot make me cry like Rembrandt, but he can make me feel love' Two ancient Egyptian black stone heads with damaged noses, side by side on museum stands — one with wig, one curly-haired La Vita Nova render: a small point-cloud woman glows in a narrow slot between dark pyramidal blocks, a pale sun haloed in the starry sky above A feverfew plant (moederkruid) with small white double blooms and green ferny leaves against a peeling whitewashed wall A Burlington Magazine anthology open to the 1998 article The Raphael Tapestry Cartoons Re-examined, with a pricked cartoon head of a woman as its plate The Path teaser in four stills: sunlit forest, a dark house — 'IN THIS FOREST / STANDS A HOUSE / THAT REMEMBERS / IT KNOWS' BBC photograph of a black crested macaque crouched in jungle foliage, peering intently into an object held up to its face Spread from C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces, pages 168 and 169: Orual presses Psyche about her unseen husband, monster, shadow, or god of the Mountain Cover of sketchbook 31: a plain black Moleskine with its elastic band, scuffed from travel Reference collage for Labytaur: medieval Minotaur-in-labyrinth manuscript, garden-maze engraving, Picasso Minotaur images, the sleeping Ariadne, a two-faced bust, and floor mazes Ingres's Odalisque in Grisaille: the Grande Odalisque reclining nude among grey silks, painted entirely in tones of grey, looking back over her shoulder Forensic facial reconstruction of Nicolaus Copernicus as an old man with white hair and a fur-collared red robe, made by the Polish police central crime laboratory Sketchbook 39, digital painting: a hollow-eyed figure in dusky red with long dark hair and thin wire rabbit ears, leaning forward in darkness Video lecture paused at 14:54 — 'The Nature of Arguments', Critical Reasoning for Beginners, a lecturer beside a slide at the University of Oxford podium Sketchbook 39, digital painting: a headless pair of legs and buttocks in flesh tones striding out of a deep violet ground Glaze strength inside a groove, by groove width and Pool scale Star Trek Voyager cast photo: Janeway front and center with arms crossed, the crew in red and gold uniforms around her Sitting alone on a gray-day beach in a black jacket, sketchbook on knees, drawing the waves as they come in Sketchbook 42 spread: ballpoint Christmas stocking hung from a switch plate, a basket of dried flowers, and studies of a toddler — walking away in a dress, laughing face, sulking mouth Penguin cover of Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice: a kneeling woman in an open kimono between a samurai helmet and orchids with skull-faced blooms 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 Page from Cabanne's Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp: painting had become retinal — few ideas, mostly technical problems, all painting since Impressionism antiscientific Blender wireframe of nested matryoshka dolls, four egg-bodies one inside another in orthographic view French exam paper, January 2008, name Auriea Harvey: 83% total with 'Très bien!' in green ink Installation view of sculptures on a black-and-white striped platform in an OSB-lined room: a green curly-haired head, a white Venus figure, and a grey skull cluster Sketchbook 32 spread in black ink: Central Park trees at night seen from the Natural History Museum steps, canopies blotted heavy against a pale sky In the Ghent Altarpiece restoration studio: Van Eyck panels on easels, a hand holding up a blue 3d-printed hashtag arthistory in the foreground 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 Auguste Rodin's The Three Shades atop the Gates of Hell: three identical bowed bronze nudes leaning together, arms hanging toward one another Spolia-Gizmo-Turn Sketchbook 47 spread at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum: sketches after Titian's Danae and a baroque portrait head, with notes on the Kunstkammer bezoar, Bruegel the Elder, and Vermeer's 'The Art of Painting' The Voyager Golden Record: etched playback instructions, a pulsar map, and the hydrogen atom diagram on the gold-plated disc Pretty in Pink soundtrack in iTunes: OMD, Suzanne Vega, Psychedelic Furs, New Order, Echo & Bunnymen, The Smiths Sketchbook 45 before its cover painting: a black-and-white photo of the plain black square book held at one corner, a pencil resting behind it Macro through a kaleidoscopic lens: a carved rosette embossed in reds and flesh tones, dissolving into flower-mosaic blur Moth orchid in bloom on the desk at night, lamplight throwing its shadow across a shelf of small treasures — cup, boxes, prints, a gilt mirror A blood-red stag with towering antlers walking through tall grass and poppies — Tale of Tales anniversary card image Sketchbook 39: a woman in a slip drawn in charcoal and white chalk on kraft-brown paper, her head turned sharply in profile, hair swept up Sketchbook 42 closing spread: crayon figure studies — a standing figure in hot pink, yellow and green with rainbow scribbles beside it, and a fainter second figure dissolving into color bars

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