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Four dark photo-collage panels from Ceremony of Innocence: a winged nude under a full moon, a doubled sleeping head, a shrouded figure wound in threads, and a plate of dark cakes Correggio's Jupiter and Io: the nude nymph swoons in the embrace of the god, who dissolves into a smoky grey cloud with a barely visible kissing face Polaroid of a foot in a bright red-orange stocking and black strappy sandal, dark skirt hem swinging above speckled lino Sketchbook 44 spread labeled 'Murillo': blue and graphite studies of standing nudes and women with 1960s bouffant hair, one gaunt figure gazing down at right — noted 'Battle of the Frigids, Slovenia' Sketchbook held up in a park: brown-ink drawing of the pond with a dark figure's ripples, the real pond and lawn behind it Cover of sketchbook 42: olive-green board embossed with a crackle pattern, a strip of yellowed cloth tape along the stitched spine and a bent wire clip at top Alone on a bench in a crimson museum hall, hood up, notebook in hand, before Rubens' vast Martyrdom of Saint Livinus Sketchbook 38 spread, Oudenaarde: a face rising behind watercolor foliage, gothic church windows, and a pencil driver seen in a car's wing mirror Sketchbook 42 spread: ballpoint profile studies — a face with pursed lips filling the left page, overlapping fragments of eyes, noses, lips and small hands on the right Letter from Stad Gent, 8 December 2008: the nationality declaration accepted — Belgian nationality as of 3 December 2008 The Laughing Man logo from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex — a winking smiley ringed by the circling Salinger quote 'I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes' Sketchbook spread in blue ballpoint: a large portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at right, smaller faces, a crown and 'KING' sketches at left 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 Photo journal card captioned 'Waiting at the kinesiest.' — a waiting-room corner: pull cord, wall socket, sansevieria in the window, 22 Feb 2011 17:07 Sketchbook 45 spread: pencil drawings of Martha from above — stockinged legs crossed at left; at right her long hair falling over a white blouse and dark skirt as she sits curled Sketchbook 46 spread: orchid buds barely open, purple and green against a brown wash — 'things that are not, that cannot, but must be' — beside a chalk study of a weathered column and rooftop Journal spread 'BLUTVERGIFTUNG chapter I': the word smeared in rusty red between two collaged kitchen-knife ads pointing at each other Year Zero at bitforms: the ziggurat of sculptures in the dark blue room, the projected mandala now burning orange and gold around a small blue rosette A Gemini year-ahead horoscope: 'a big change is in the works… everything you've been thinking of changing will be greenlit, light by light, and in time.' Early Netherlandish panel of Eve holding the apple beside the tree, the serpent coiled up the trunk wearing a woman's golden-haired face, the paint finely crackled Two views of a glazed ceramic tile of a fawn: propped against an antique balance scale on a shelf, and held close-up in a hand Louise Bourgeois's giant bronze spider Maman standing over James Ensor's grave beside the brick church tower of Our Lady of the Dunes, Ostend Back cover of sketchbook 20: layers of cheesecloth painted pale blue and gold over damask fabric, tiny eyelets inked lower left Back of sketchbook 38 and its spine: marbled green paper under a black inked cloud, leather corners, spine strips reading 'Der Geist des Rokoko' Sformo-Seam-Keys Sketchbook 49 page: finished graphite study of a lounging male nude with drapery across his thighs, one leg thrown wide, modeled against a dark ground Sketchbook 49 endpapers: ex libris page with a photo of an Egyptian harpist relief at the Met and three blue Met admission tags (Feb 16–18), facing studies after Rubens nudes — Ghent, Paris, Dec 2013–June 2014 Painting of a huge grey wolf's head hanging upside down among pale birch trunks, jaws open, while a small child covers their face below Sketchbook 49 spread of Donatello studies: St George and the Dragon relief with a large horse head, the pointed-hatted profile of Saint Louis de Toulouse, and notes on Spiritelli and Brunelleschi vs. Ghiberti Tarot app spread on a wood table: The Hermit, King of Cups, Page of Wands reversed, Ace of Pentacles, The Devil below; to the right The World, The Empress and Hierophant reversed Cover of sketchbook 4: black leather-look book collaged with a blurred self-portrait photo in a fractal frame, lettered in green — 'Pseudo Quasi Real' and 'chaos is my life' Long-exposure blur of a family living room seen through a mylar balloon — clock, cabinet and figures smeared into ghosts Eight-song playlist starting with Final Fantasy's None Of You Will Ever See A Penny, five stars, then Deerhunter, Boduf Songs, Fridge, Beck, Cranes Auriea's Year Zero at bitforms, New York: a stepped white ziggurat of sculptures — horned bust, small heads, a crowned figure on a column — beside a glowing blue mandala projection John Collier's Clytemnestra (1882): the queen stands grim in a doorway between bronze column and curtain, gripping a long-handled axe, blood at the threshold Double exposure in reds and blues: a sleeping dark face overlaid with a lit clock tower and a night street's lights Sketchbook 48 spread: notes on the paragone and the Carracci academy beside a large soft-pencil study after Guido Reni — a bearded face in profile with a pointing hand — 'looking at a photo I only see the camera' Intricate red paper-cut wall piece: a horned skull crowns a cascading tree of veins and drips sheltering small figures, birds, and a truck at its root Inside cover of sketchbook 20: collaged Muybridge-like figures carrying trays across the bottom, a golden crest reading 'PSYCHE STORY' held up at right, rusty reds above Installation photograph: red violins with their bows mounted swarming up white walls and across a tiled floor, like an infestation of insects Early ZBrush study for Saint John the Baptist: front and back of a faceless muscular body, its surfaces streaked with rough sculpting strokes Two stacked book spines misread as one phrase: gold-stamped HISTORY above a red cloth spine reading THE CHALLENGE OF Voyager-style black-and-white photograph of Jupiter against black space, its banded clouds and Great Red Spot visible Sketchbook 48 spread: 'The lesson of Raphael — you stand on the dragon, your sword is lighter than air', with a pencil study of a standing putto reaching upward — 'transform the hours of your life into art' Rain water pooled on a flat surface reflecting the sky, a drainpipe and grass behind, an old school building beyond the fence Three views of the Object 01 head 3D-printed in blue wax beside a ruler, about five centimeters long, seen in profile, from above, and three-quarter Sketchbook 40 spread: Florence from Fiesole in the faintest watercolor — a blue hill line, green olive trees, two golden figures standing at lower left Sketchbook 22B spread: red flames drawn sweeping across a silvered page, opposite ink studies of a torso, flames, and notes — 'The Lesser of Many, Many evils, 17 Jan 95' Blurry conference photo of a speaker beside a slide headed Developers are Pussies, arguing developers misunderstand the business of publishing Sketchbook 33 spread: a pine tree drawn in patient pen line, its trunk splitting into branches over a bare horizon, a few ink burrs floating above

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