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Sketchbook 49 spread: faint layered crowd studies in graphite and ochre — faces, lips, and a staring woman — with the note 'if you think this is over then you're wrong' Five progressive states of the Magdalene etching side by side, the skull-faced seated figure emerging from faint outline to dense black shadow Black-and-white photograph of two visitors silhouetted before a museum diorama of New Amsterdam: Lenape men with clubs face Dutch colonists by a windmill and stone house Tiny icon of a wooden hourglass, sand gathered in the lower bulb A battered TDK D90 cassette labeled in red pen Balinese Gamelon, Ketjak Monkey Chant, side A Four Saint John test prints against orange: a white resin figure, black demon legs on a rod above a tiny reclining body, a small black figurine, and a bronze-patina cast Double exposure in reds and blues: a sleeping dark face overlaid with a lit clock tower and a night street's lights ZBrush sculpt of a stylized animal skull mask, yellow-green over white with red striped horns and black flame markings Tiny blurry webcam frame of Shari in a white shirt, head bowed over a desk in daylight Kiki Smith's Getting the Bird Out: a black cast head lying cheek-down, a twine cord running from its mouth to a small black bird lying at its end The word NOW in soft-edged black letters, set diagonally and dissolving into a pale blue ground Photogrammetry point cloud of a large spreading tree on a lawn, rendered as 2.1 million colored dots in a 3D viewport against grey emptiness Sformo-Bands Sketchbook 45: tonal pencil drawing of the back of Martha's head, loose blonde hair falling over an embroidered blouse against a dark shaded ground Cover of sketchbook 30: a hanging cluster of pale bell-like flowers painted over turquoise and gold wash Spread from Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red, pages 4 and 5: what difference did Stesichoros make — adjectives as the latches of being, and red Geryon of Erytheia Anne Carson, 'Could I': 'If you are not the free person you want to be, you must find a place to tell the truth about that… The point is not to find a reader, the point is the telling itself.' Diptych on the Malecón in Havana: the seawall curving toward the smoky skyline, and a brown hand with a gold ring raised against the grey sea Cover of sketchbook 35: a red Moleskine planner with a Polaroid of dried leaves taped under plastic, dated 2008/11/16 Cover of sketchbook 48: an old ledger bound in red leather and swirled brown marbled paper, scuffed white at the edges Three views of a small polished bronze by Auriea: a crouching Magdalene-like figure with long hair pressing a hand to her head, a skull emerging behind her shoulders Bernini's chalk study personifying St Peter's: a standing figure whose outstretched arms become the colonnades embracing the piazza Sketchbook 45 spread: a close brown-toned gouache portrait of a woman's face, facing a red ink-and-wash figure curled inside an egg-like ring with notes on love, fragments and ruins in technological art Sketchbook 48 spread in pencil: a draped baroque saint clasping a bundle against dark shading, an orange domed chapel on the horizon, and a soft study of figures on rocks A dead twig with curled brown leaves on a grey ground, two leaves lettered in white paint to spell perfekt Sketchbook 48 spread: notes on Bernini and Poussin at a dinner party, Michelle's advice on chalk drawing, Subleyras and the 1740s turn to Neoclassicism — 'David, the father of us all' An old engraving of two figures embracing beneath a rocky overhang, overpainted with ranks of falling black teardrops that spill past its margins Preface page from Anne Carson's Grief Lessons — 'Tragedy: A Curious Art Form' — beginning 'Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.' Sketchbook 5 fold-out scroll: collage of a torso photograph, a surgical-instruments catalog page, an Elric of Melniboné 'Stormbringer' text, film strip, comic panel and handwritten x-ray notes with red measurements Grisaille digital study of a classical marble bust — woman with headband and braided hair — on a flat pink ground Robert Fludd's black square engraving, its edges inscribed 'Et sic in infinitum' on all four sides Sketchbook 49 spread: a horse-headed nude man beside a red bowl with whisk, and an Anubis-like figure draped in red over a large sphere, dated 1st April — a dream-like Egyptian pairing Looking up through MinoRinth: a dark tree trunk forks overhead into pixel-dust foliage, the maze's green rings and grids dissolving in white glare iTunes playlist of 20 songs — Radiohead's Bullet Proof, Carmen McRae, XTC, Tom Waits, Sonic Youth, Roisin Murphy's Off On It highlighted Film still of a woman with red fabric mask across her eyes and ink marks on her face, beside a mosaic of the same image reduced to color swatches Till We Have Faces, pages 294 and 295: the dream of the golden rams that trample Orual in their joy, and the other woman gleaning bright wool from the thorns Sketchbook 48 spread: two graphite studies — a close-up of a hand gripping drapery at a nude's hip, and a rising écorché-like figure with arms flung upward, 'in the presence of others on the last day of class' Two Blender views of grandmother's house: the dark cutaway interior with staircase and lamp gizmos, and the whole cottage on shocking magenta terrain Sketchbook 40 spread: bare trees brushed in black ink before a lake, pink clouds scribbled in the sky, a carved trunk with a hollow at right Three views of a small book silvered edge to edge: metal leaf cracking and peeling across the gutter of its open pages Still from Islanders: colossal weathered faces dissolving into swarms of paper-like shards, drifting in blue sky above a hazy planetary horizon, the sun flaring through one eye Heather Mason's unlockable God of Thunder costume in Silent Hill 3: a tank top printed with the thunder god Raijin, her arms mottled with full-sleeve tattoos Freud's model of the mind as an iceberg: the conscious ego above the waterline, superego at the surface, and the vast unconscious id submerged below Two stems of moth orchids, white petals speckled with magenta and deep pink lips, in front of an old wooden door Sformo-Numbers Sketchbook 43: the June 2012 transit of Venus painted as an ochre-gold sun disc with the planet a small dark dot near its lower edge Purple passion velvet plant, its fuzzy deep-purple serrated leaves overflowing a pale lilac pot Sketchbook 44 spread over the printed chapter headings of Feu et Flamme: a tonal graphite nude curled around his knees, hands clasped over his feet The morning after, in overlapping photo windows: a wine bottle and glasses on the floor, two desks buried in prints, gear and a laptop Blurred black-and-white mirror self-portrait: standing in a bare room with a camera at the chest, a lit sconce and door behind

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