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Ruby's black glossy wig over a blank magenta placeholder face, textured neck below Sketchbook 44 spread: ballpoint portraits drawn during video calls — faces labeled 'cyberkati', a bearded man smiling, a profile in glasses, hands, sleeping cats, and a red-pencil profile MinoRinth corridor: the great dark tree rises between two shadowed maze walls, its speckled crown filling the pale sky Snapshot portrait of game designer Fumito Ueda, dark hair falling across his face, against sunlit foliage 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 Journal spread: two red-ink figures joined at the torso holding tangled organs, opposite a dense two-column dialogue in silver and red ink over a faint photo Cover of sketchbook 25: dark green cloth with a small black-and-white photo of Devils Tower and three red ribbons hanging down Sketchbook 49 spread: dark graphite vignette of a seated figure with another curled beside it, facing a bending walking figure with bundled back, a lined older face, and scattered head studies Netscape window on Windows 95 showing skinonskinonskin by Entropy8Zuper!: Auriea's face half-hidden under dreadlocks, a Z at her fingertips, chapter links across the top Self-portrait in a round mirror by the wooden door, camera at eye, in a black sweater with dreadlocks tied back Photo-weave collage: a black-and-white portrait cut into small rectangles and rewoven, scattering eyes, lips, and hair across the grid Second angle on the simulated striped table: the curly blue head and orange cyclops face in front, legs in orange boots, a standing figure, and bone fragments behind The Path's graveyard: the girl in red stripes standing small among headstones and crosses under grey misty trees Screenshot from Cricoterie, Tale of Tales' Tadeusz Kantor-inspired VR: a horse skeleton puppet, a toppled mannequin and a black figure among doors and a cage on a dark stage 3d Día de los Muertos sugar-skull mask, white with pink flower eyes, green petal lashes and red stitched grin Two Mexican codices in museum vitrines: pictographic pages with red pointing hands and demons, and a text page with a village river scene Animal Crossing screenshot: the player, eyes closed mid-song, exclaims Wahooo! in a wood-panelled interior with a pelican looking on Faded 1970s snapshot of two small girls in white Easter dresses and hair ribbons on a sunny sidewalk, a black-and-white photo of daisies tucked into the corner Sketchbook 44 spread: graphite studies of a standing male nude in two overlapping stances at left, and at right the model reclining, legs extended toward the corner Dentist office view — The waiting room holds its pale blue certainty—sky caught behind glass, the colour of a summer afternoon in the north, bleached by fluorescent light into something patient and still. Cover of sketchbook 11, black leather-grain board with a small pasted label: 'THE NEW SCHOOL MUST FALL! LONG LIVE PARSONS!' Sketchbook 38 spread: a great cedar in the botanic garden, dark boughs in ink and wash spreading over water, small figures picnicking beneath Still from Shadow of the Colossus: Wander on his black horse Agro wheels before a towering, moss-grown stone colossus Sketchbook 49 spread: Louvre notes on Giulio Romano and Pannini's paired Views of Ancient and Modern Rome, a monk-robed figure, a wine-red crouching nude hiding her face, and a pietà study Twitter exchange from February 2012: Auriea tells Hasan Niyazi she wants to make games with metaphysical catharsis; he wagers such a game is two console generations away; she replies 'we will be working to bring the future to you TODAY!' Sketchbook 39, digital painting: a bedside lamp with an orange shade glowing yellow underneath, on a brushy brown ground Cluttered Mac desktop: Firefox on a LiveJournal page with a Sinfest comic, over dark Godlove Museum imagery in the background Sketchbook 32, Mediaterra session 2 'Identity & Psychology of the Player': Espen Aarseth mirrored top-to-bottom with Celia Pearce, speakers threaded through a yellow coiling snake Sketchbook 44: a printed page of Feu et Flamme overdrawn with a large sanguine foot seen from the sole and a violet pencil profile rising along the margin Sketchbook 49 spread on 'Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection': notes on the Sleeping Venus's winged-skull memento mori and gilt bronze, with two twisting figure sketches — 'the twist' Dutch text on the Sadawaar, a beast of Byzantine lands from Kazwini: its horn of forty-two hollow branches sings sweetly in wind, and mournfully when reversed Painted 3d head in profile looking up, sinewy yellowed skin like carved bone, grey ground 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 Sketchbook 40 spread planning the Sunset Appreciation Society game: door verbs, bookmark grids, a purple-clouded screen sketch, and lists — sunset alarms, sunset paint by numbers Sketchbook 48 spread in graphite: self-portrait with full hair and hand at chest, legs in patterned tights on heeled sandals, a coffee mug, and tiny thumbnails noting 'The Moon' and a black dog Mina Loy's Love Songs in manuscript, 1915: the poem beginning Spawn of Fantasies in a looping hand, signed and dated Sketchbook 44 spread: charcoal studies of a male nude from behind and a thigh, with a handwritten list of the ten sibyls — Persian, Libyan, Delphic, Cumaean — and their legends Back cover of sketchbook 48: green and brown marbled paper over worn boards with dark leather corners and a red cloth spine Digital painting after a life photo: seated nude with red hair, arms crossed over her face, pale body against near-black Cover of sketchbook 6 (1996): crumpled white spiral notebook inked 'Auriea Part 6' over a taped clipping reading 'sex, life, and the cosmos…', dated 8 May–20 Aug Tall foxglove stem with pink bell flowers rising against a peeling whitewashed wall Small white clay maquette from behind: a kneeling Magdalene with long incised hair holding a skull up at arm's length, face to face Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2: the pale executioner in his rusted angular helmet dragging the enormous Great Knife through darkness Sketchbook 47 spread on the 'Rubens in Europe' exhibition: écorché studies, notes on Van Dyck's Charles I and Rubens's Leda and the Swan copy after Michelangelo — 'bursting out of this rectangle, but so still' 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 32 spread from the Met's Asian galleries: pink brush sketches of Krishna battling the horse demon Keshi, notes on Durga and Shiva, and a seated Maitreya Bodhisattva face in ink Corner of a social profile: '144 friends — See All' John Berger in a patterned shirt against a flat blue ground, a still from Ways of Seeing, BBC 1972 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' Tippi Hedren lighting her cigarette from a match held in a crow's beak — The Birds publicity photo

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