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Sketchbook 48 spread in pencil: a bowl of fruit rendered in soft graphite, a week's copying schedule (Centaur, Diana, Rivers, Tiber), and a dark bowed head — 'let go of the photographic eye, see the form' Animation frames from Eraserhead: the pale-cheeked Lady in the Radiator standing with clasped hands on her small lit stage between dark curtains Silenus cradling the infant Dionysus, Roman copy after a Lysippan original, Vatican Museums inv. 2292. A vine-wrapped tree trunk carries the composition, and a plain squared strut ties Silenus' lower leg back to it. Photograph by sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Sketchbook 22B open on a road case: a Chinese wedding chair clipping ringed by red imps, and on silver foil a mummy-like figure trailing long roots — 'I am big + the pictures that got smaller' Giuseppe Maria Crespi's Hecuba Blinding Polymestor: the Trojan queen in torn white silk drives her thumbs into the bound king's eyes as he claws backward in the dark New Year selfie from below in the Louvre's gilded galleries, painted ceiling of gods and putti overhead, chin high The Endless Forest deer with a glowing white skull face and huge branching red antlers like coral fins, standing in fog Max patch titled the larynx of frankenstein's monster: dozens of phoneme players wired into a gate, with the creature's demand for a female pasted alongside The Graveyard in black and white: the old woman with her cane walking the central path between crosses toward the chapel White vodou veve drawing on a dark grey ground — a starred, symmetrical crossroads emblem framed by two arcs Wax-pale panel with two graphite dead birds drawn beside two black 3D-printed women curled in the same fallen pose Three Jandek-style CD-Rs on a desk: 'Magick for Cherishings' and 'Magick for Prudence' with pressed-flower covers, one disc hand-labeled 'NOT SURE IF I SENT THIS TO YOU ALREADY!' Yellow poster in underlined black capitals: You are about to do something you shouldn't — The Game Is Up! festival, 7 to 16 February 2007 Sketchbook 48 spread: pink-pencil dancer with raised arm over notes on the Musée Carnavalet — 'Paris explained by Parisians, collected by a madman' — and the Musée Cognacq-Jay's Boucher pastels Line diagram of a Molotov cocktail: a taped bottle with labeled wick and fuel mixture Hand holding a sketchbook: blue ink wash landscape of icy light with a small dark girl in a white dress standing at right Sketchbook 49 spread of cast-hall studies: headless antique torsos, a winged Cupid stringing his bow, a standing putto seen in profile, and a muscular breastplate torso Text titled Realtime processing: the computer's essence as artistic medium is generating events in real time — time is to digital art what space is to analog art A notan diptych — panel A in one gray with a white mass, panel B in the second gray with black and white masses, HUD proportion bars beneath each Sketchbook pencil studies: a woman's downcast face, a dark heavily-shaded bearded man grimacing, and a faint construction-lines head ZBrush close-up of a Path girl's hooded head, wireframed olive face with blank eyes inside a smooth grey hood Spolia-Style-SpiralStrut Back cover of sketchbook 20: layers of cheesecloth painted pale blue and gold over damask fabric, tiny eyelets inked lower left Jean Fouquet's Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels from the Melun Diptych: the pale crowned Virgin bares one breast amid red and blue seraphim Sketchbook 40, journal page copying Anne Carson: 'Drawing is quite, quite naked...' with notes on drawing, honesty, and modelling a hand in 3D, a wiry hand sketched above Sketchbook 49 spread: a single faint gesture drawing of curling, flame-like figures rising up the page fold, the rest of the spread blank Sitting small in red under a magnolia in full bloom at the pond's edge, drawing among the fallen petals Sketch of a sphere labeled Classical Model, annotated with incidence of cool reflection, cool turning, neutral shadow, and warm light mass Mac desktop tiled with video-chat screenshots — a classroom of students on the far end, the two callers picture-in-picture in each window A sculptural bust featuring a bearded male figure in white marble or plaster, positioned in profile against a weathered green patina base with black and gold-spotted stone, set against a black background. The figure's classical features and flowing beard are rendered in sharp detail, while the contrasting materials and oxidized finish suggest an aged or intentionally antiqued decorative object. Film still of the Queen of the Night: a crowned soprano with a crescent-moon staff rises from painted clouds inside a swirling tunnel of stars Louise Bourgeois marble sculpture: a torso-like form clustered with smooth white breast shapes, carved from a rough-hewn block A single pink peony in a small blue vase on a green bench by an open window, next to a monitor showing Blender with a 3d tree model Grayscale digital painting of two drooping peony buds, ink-dark leaves against a smudged white sky Mirrored double portrait: a pale face with dark fringe doubled nose to nose, a point of light burning between the eyes over a band of ringed dots QR code for the ProjectProject work Sketch for a Cyclops Netscape screenshot of LOVE by Group Z, Belgium — early net art by Michaël Samyn: the word LOVE spelled in daisies inside gold and floral frames, hosted in Rhizome's anthology Hospital close-up: a hand taped with gauze, an IV line running red past a gold ring Sketchbook 49 spread at Chicago's Driehaus Museum: sanguine studies of Tiffany bronze candlesticks and a caryatid ('Renaissance + Japanese motifs combined'), facing graphite silhouettes of cinnabar lacquer and skyline finials Tiny dithered black-and-white photograph of a loaf of bread with cut slices leaning against it RCA Victor Opera Series cover for Bizet's Carmen: Leontyne Price in large hoop earrings against red, with Franco Corelli, Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic billed 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 Still from Silent Hill 2: Maria leans close behind the cell bars, subtitle reading See? I'm real. Sketchbook 38 spread: a night-blooming flower in pencil, pale petals reserved against a darkened star-flecked ground Sketchbook 42 spread: ballpoint figures on tan paper — a dark-haired woman embracing a bald figure from behind at left, faces and a clasped arm layered over blue washes at right Glitchy black-and-white webcam still: two ghostly figures side by side over a striped scanline pattern, timestamped 11.6.18.47.30 RATIO with sample entries: trips and expenses for one year Cover of sketchbook 16B: raw grey board with a pasted three-panel comic strip — a woman's face, a burst of static, dark tentacles — captioned '...my wound healed, and I continued my journey' Sketchbook 47 spread: two graphite studies of a curly-headed marble Venus, with notes on Fetti's 'Melancholy', Thomas Boudin, and Coysevox's 'Crouching Venus' — 'she's looking heavenward, sitting on a tortoise' Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map: the world unfolded onto an icosahedron so the continents lie as one nearly unbroken island in a single ocean

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