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1504 pieces, shuffled — reshuffle

Low-poly grey 3d model of a hunched old woman in a headscarf and long skirt — The Graveyard's grandmother, untextured First page of Robert Graves's I, Claudius: Claudius introduces himself and his nicknames — the Idiot, the Stammerer, Clau-Clau-Claudius — under a Greek key ornament Diagram of the Julio-Claudian family tree, tracing marriages and adoptions from Julius Caesar through Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero Cover of sketchbook 29: a painted collaged face on black — cropped bands of eyes, nose and grinning teeth assembled into a mask Sketchbook 45 spread: graphite life studies of a seated male nude torso with crossed legs at left, and a slumped figure with an arm swung out along a dark bolster at right Inside the MinoRinth maze: dark castle-like towers with chimneys loom over the walls under a curdled white-and-sepia sky Sepia museum display of a mastodon skeleton before a painted marsh mural, its label reading 'This mastodon was found in Indiana' 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' The Piraeus Apollo: an archaic Greek bronze kouros mottled with green patina, standing with both forearms extended, one palm open Roma sketchbook spread 'S.P.Q.R.': ink studies of statues and angels with notes — 'It is a frightening thing when one culture supplants another... In Rome the Gods are truly dead.' Reading Ovid at 03:16 — iPad page of the Metamorphoses with Medea's lines underlined in red: 'It's useless to fight, Medea… This, or something akin to it surely, is what they call love.' Sketchbook pencil portrait of a young man in vest and shirt looking down, arms crossed at the wrists, signed in cursive 'Love Truitt' Sketchbook 38 fold-out in pencil: a Ryanair seatback tray, the wing over a coastline near Bologna, and a neighbor thumbing a phone — 'airplane to Bologna' Astrodienst natal charts side by side: Auriea, Gemini sun with Aries rising, and Michaël Samyn, Cancer sun with Leo rising Sketchbook 32 spread: a bushy tree in dried-blood red wash, and opposite, a chestnut tree in sanguine beside an Art Nouveau gate — 'with Laura in the park (citadel), 2006' Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in close-up under the brim of his fedora, face smudged with dirt, smiling sidelong IGN PC games front page with The Path Hands-On featured in the carousel between Burnout Paradise ads The same vessel after growing supports: branching oak-coloured struts descend from the rim and from the base ring, merging into a few thicker legs that meet the build plate. Untextured grey model of grandmother's crooked house with black door and window frames, one window glowing red 3d raven from above, wings spread wide showing purple-striped feathers, gliding in the dark viewport 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 Tale of Tales's The Graveyard installed in the V&A Videogames exhibition: monitors, notebooks, and framed sheets along a dark gallery wall Camera-viewfinder framing of a studio wall: a webcam and USB lamp plugged in, small prints taped up, everything dim and greenish The same support forest assigned the bronze material instead of oak, so the struts read as cast metal against a marble body. Black-and-white diagram of the lost circular pavement labyrinth of Santa Maria in Trastevere: eleven concentric mosaic rings around a dark center Sketchbook 45: a white rose in graphite against a dark hatched ground, its stem crossing two curled leaves — dated notes opposite mention Bientôt l'été and Anne Carson Browser screenshot of a2p.bitmark.com, Artworks I own: an edition grid with works by Warburton, Sougwen Chung, Petra Cortright, LIA, Lieberman, Shu Lea Cheang, Pipkin, and Auriea's Sketch for a Cyclops Two mirror photos rotated sideways: trying on a green-blue-white abstract print dress with heels, in a sunny wooden-floored room EarthBound ('The War Against Giygas!') running in an SNES emulator on a Nintendo DS, menu on the lower screen Hokusai's shunga print The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife: a woman reclining among rocks in the embrace of two octopuses, calligraphy filling the sky Cover of sketchbook 43: white gessoed cloth painted with a large marbled sphere in red, gold and green, a small silver moon circle set into its lower edge Two sagittal MRI scans of the same head and spine in profile, lips, tongue, and vertebrae glowing white against black 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 22B spread: a pencil drawing of a nude sleeper stretched across both pages amid pink stains — 'never before has reality been so appealing...' Black-and-white film still: a young woman in a white nightdress pressed against ornately patterned wallpaper, looking back over her shoulder Spolia-Gizmo-Size Dell paperback cover of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time: a winged centaur rearing over dark mountains, a green face glowering in a crystal sphere Cover of sketchbook 24: grey-black felt with a gold eagle medallion reading 'Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Modern World' Overexposed café scene through glass: children's party around a blue table with pink cups, an adult leaning over the middle, greenhouse shelves behind Three museum selfies of Auriea with Raphaels: the Ecstasy of Saint Cecilia in Bologna, the portrait of Baldassare Castiglione, and the Madonna of the Meadow Six Magdalenes clothed in their own hair: Donatello's gaunt penitent, two paintings of angels lifting her to heaven, Giampietrino's praying saint, and carved altarpiece elevations Ana Mendieta's Body Tracks: arms raised high against a pale wall at the start of the drag, blood-dipped, the film grain in rainbow bands 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 Young hemelsleutel (sedum) plant with broad grey-green leaves in a terracotta pot on brick paving Cover of sketchbook 38: a misty black-and-white photo of a Japanese garden framed in Kodak TX film-box edges, collaged over torn German book pages with red initials Labeled cutaway diagram of the Teller-Ulam two-stage thermonuclear design: primary with plutonium pit beside the cylindrical secondary in its radiation case Metope's Light tablet: the aiming orb with its light chips, brightness and light colour, ambient occlusion, the environment gallery of skies, and the relief normal-depth and shadow sliders. Torn scrap of paper, its lower edge charred: a finely drawn eye rains rows of blue teardrops, tiny handwriting threading through the lashes Long pink-and-black text conversation about BioShock: 'i didn't find it gorgeous at all... Hellgate <--vs--> Anne Carson. Anne Carson wins!' Hotel-room door detail: steel panel with white handle, ballpoint graffiti on the frame — 'JOHAN Je t'♥ gio 21/03/08'

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