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The Aristodikos kouros, ca. 510-500 BC, National Archaeological Museum Athens inv. 3938. The hands are lost but the stubs of the two struts that braced them to the thighs survive at hip height. Photograph by Gary Todd, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons. Francesca Woodman's Blueprint for a Temple: a large blue diazotype collage assembling photographed caryatids and Greek-key friezes into a temple facade Sketchbook 44 spread: ballpoint plane trees and a mossy fountain, with scribbled motion studies of dancers noted from Les Ballets C de la B's 'Oude King' — 'human range of motion', 'over pain madness' Tale of Tales lettered on a banner amid extravagant Spencerian pen flourishes that swirl into a long-tailed bird, in black ink on cream Sketchbook 44, drawn over the printed page 'Chapitre Premier' of Feu et Flamme: a faint pencil portrait of a girl with tousled hair, one eye darkly shaded Tiny animated screen-capture: an image-editing window with a small dark photograph inside, too small to read Cover of The Sandman: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman: a pale arm stretched over a green-tinted castle, a weathered book pinned to a black disc above Back cover of sketchbook 26: waxed book pages printed with dark palm fronds and crosshatched shadows, amber and sepia Cover of sketchbook 46: plain grey-green linen with a black elastic band, unadorned Blue pencil sketch of a Louvre marine centaur group: a bearded triton reclining on a coiling fish tail, a slender youth seated against his back Cover of sketchbook 21B: red felt covered in dark oval link shapes touched with gold, signed '21 TDM' — The Disease Manifesto Corner of a social profile: '144 friends — See All' Dim webcam photo: a man's face half out of frame beside a window with potted plants on the sill, a pale building across the street and a radiator below Christmas Eve double exposure: family unwrapping presents by the fireplace, a woman on the hearth, children over a big box, torn red paper on the floor Mac weather widget for Gent: 63° now, a sunny week ahead, 72–77° Tuesday through Sunday Sketchbook 45 spread: ballpoint analysis of Michelangelo's Battle of the Centaurs relief — figures blocked into boxy volumes at left, the writhing knot of bodies drawn organically at right METOPE paint and glaze figure Another view of Proserpina in sepia: the twist of her torso, his hand gripping, her body arching away An antique red-and-gold binding of Vecellio's Costumes Anciens et Modernes given new blank pages — old spine, bare label panel, fresh paper inside Auguste Rodin's The Three Shades atop the Gates of Hell: three identical bowed bronze nudes leaning together, arms hanging toward one another Sketchbook 5 spread: Emily Dickinson's 'My life closed twice before its close' written out in violet, facing a green-toned acrylic nude torso with dark red nipples A Roland TR-606 Drumatix drum machine: silver face with accent and drum knobs above a row of sixteen grey step buttons Triptych of skull self-portraits: cheek pressed to the plastic skull; regarding it at arm's length; holding it up as a second face over her own Still from Shadow of the Colossus: Wander on his black horse Agro wheels before a towering, moss-grown stone colossus An enormous pale pink peony bloom overwhelming its blue vase on a red table, an orchid pot beside it Contact sheet of eleven webcam video stills, timestamped: a man and a woman on a green sofa in take after take — interview recording Metope's Texture tablet, the pattern studio: a grid of pattern primitives and the recipe sliders that shape them, with the bake-to-form controls at the foot. Sketchbook 41 spread: pencil and red ballpoint life-drawing studies of crouching and reclining nudes, with a handwritten list of painters — Morot, Shishkin, Carlsen, Mancini, Prud'hon, Vibert, Bonnat, Ribera Sketchbook 25 spread of watercolors: a faint green figure bleeding through above, and below, a blond man in black standing in a Maine yard by a shed — the only known drawing of Rick George Frampton's Lamia: a polychrome bust with a pale ivory face, eyes downcast, encased in a dark bronze headdress and gown set with opals Almost-black room: a dark silhouetted head in the foreground, a man's face lit by a screen at the far desk, an icon poster on the wall A grey Dutch bicycle with a black basket leaning against a park bench in a winter park, bare trees and drifts of fallen leaves behind Sketchbook pencil drawing of an embrace: her hands buried in his hair as he leans into her shoulder, faces hidden Night photo of Kit Halsted, cigarette in mouth, leaning on a loaded Triumph motorcycle at a Manhattan curb, lit billboards down the street Vija Celmins drawing of a spider web: concentric silk rings and radial spokes in white on black Overexposed café scene through glass: children's party around a blue table with pink cups, an adult leaning over the middle, greenhouse shelves behind Tiny grainy black-and-white webcam frame of a woman with long dark hair caught mid-motion, dancing in her chair Sketchbook 42, page 14: ballpoint portrait on tan paper of a woman with a ponytail seen in profile, eyes lowered, her seated body trailing off into light contour lines Hand holding a sketchbook: blue ink wash landscape of icy light with a small dark girl in a white dress standing at right Beksiński painting: a figure with wild red hair and bared teeth, pearls at the throat, wrapped in a rotting ornate garment amid an orange haze Sketchbook 41 spread: charcoal studies of noses and lips, a seated figure, perspective primitives, a red-draped column, and a blue gouache nude marked 'after Carracci' Photograph of the back of a neck and shoulders tattooed with the single lowercase word life, ending in a period Keith Arnatt-style photograph: a dense white cloud of smoke hanging between green trees in a summer forest Soft black-and-white photograph of a Penguin Classics Ovid, Metamorphoses: Bernini's Apollo and Daphne on the cover, laurel leaves sprouting from her hands Two figures on the wide wet sand of the Belgian coast under a heavy sky, a rainbow arcing down toward distant apartment blocks Last.fm top artists grid: Akira Yamaoka on top with 1,685 plays, then Nick Cave, Sonic Youth, Bach, Air, Tom Waits, Radiohead, Björk… Sketchbook 38 spread in pencil: a glass of tea, its bag slumped beside it on a crumpled napkin — 'tea, Ronse(?)' Sketchbook 33 spread: two great black ink blots mirrored across the gutter like a Rorschach figure with outstretched arms, faint pencil sketches beneath Entropy8Zuper International Garden Mural Invitational template: a courtyard with a sooty black wall and two green plastic chairs, above a blank measured mural diagram 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.

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