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Sketchbook 45 spread: graphite portraits of dying flowers — a drooping daisy over collapsed petals at left, a closed rose bending on its stem beside a tulip at right Voyager-style black-and-white photograph of Jupiter against black space, its banded clouds and Great Red Spot visible Two Endless Forest deer side by side: a black one with blue skull face and sparkler antlers, and a red one in a green luchador-style mask Tiny dark sketch of three standing figures side by side, scratched out of black ink Cover of sketchbook 36: red Moleskine with a dark Polaroid of a braided head wrapped in red-veined tissue, a postcard of an ornate clock-tower shrine, and a skull sticker Journal page dated February 19: notes before Las Meninas at the Prado — 'surprised by brushwork, muddy and rough… the strokes being alive' — with two ink sketches Sketchbook 33 spread, Teotihuacan Mexico 2007: a shaggy pepper tree in black ink over a shaded path, and at right cactus paddles drawn in wandering line 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 Cover of sketchbook 40: plain dark grey woven bookcloth, worn at the corners, no title Tarot app spread on a wood table: The Hermit, King of Cups, Page of Wands reversed, Ace of Pentacles, The Devil below; to the right The World, The Empress and Hierophant reversed Four runway looks with furry animal masks — horned goat and sheep heads over tartan coats and prints Spolia-Style-Strut-Detail Sketchbook 44: pencil studies after Titian — a twisting nude with flying drapery, and a tangle of struggling figures Bernini's Rape of Proserpina, close: Pluto's fingers sinking into her marble thigh and waist, stone made flesh Skype call with Michaël Samyn at 07:13: he mugs close to the camera, two relatives peeking in behind, the caller smiling in the corner window Frida Kahlo's The Wounded Deer: a small deer with Kahlo's face pierced by nine arrows, leaping through a corridor of tree trunks toward a stormy sea Game character model: a gaunt zombie-like man with skull-white face, arms outstretched in T-pose, black tattered body with white markings Abyssinian kitten enthroned on an iPad on a red cushion, huge ears up, beside a taped-up STAN theater poster The Aztec basalt statue of Coatlicue: the earth goddess with clawed feet, a skull at her waist and twin serpent heads forming her face, on a blue ground Sketchbook spread in ballpoint: cathedral vaults and rose windows swarming with lines — 'So I guess I'm graduating... at Riverside Church, Sat 15 May 93' Five studio views of the Fauna head circling from front to back: the long-eared child's face, the horn bud, and the gold-filled fissures crossing the white skull Soft-focus black-and-white studio portrait of a girl with dark marcel-waved hair and dark painted lips, gazing steadily at the camera Sketchbook 42 spread on tan paper: ballpoint café portraits — a man's face cropped at the glasses, and a woman with an updo, round earring and choker glancing back over her shoulder The Mystery, first ZBrush version in mauve: a skull with a small serene face nested in its eye socket, trailing a long bone stem and torn wing of ear MTAA's Simple Net Art Diagram, ca. 1997: two clip-art computers joined by a cable, a red lightning bolt at the midpoint labeled 'The art happens here' Concert at a small venue: singer bent over at the stage edge in black, guitarist and drummer on stage, sparse audience watching Notebook page 'The ultimate FINAL to do list' with nearly every line struck through in red, 'DONE!' scrawled at top Annotated Quest3D screenshot: a tangle of linked channel blocks with pink circles and arrows marking which body and motion nodes were already there Desktop with 3d girl half-wireframed beside a photo of a blindfolded woman, and a hooded red-cloaked model in a second window; a filename rants across the top Inside back cover of sketchbook 38: a sun-bleached Polaroid self-portrait among bare branches, hair falling over the face, taped beside a German page on 18th-century literature Metope's Scaffold tablet: symmetry axes, the six grid kinds with snap, the draw-shape modes, and the guide tools (ruler, compass, curve, poly, magnet). Two finds: enamel 'Drukkerij St Joris P.V.B.A.' printers' sign, and an office-door flyer — 'ART PROBLEMS? Seek professional advice…' Soft grayscale painting of a white rabbit at rest with ears raised, glazed like porcelain against a white ground Sketchbook 42, page 88: ballpoint domestic still life — a stereo tower and tissue box on a table, a game controller resting on a bed, snacks and a glass on a striped cloth Blurry cellphone photo from Mom: Canada geese grazing on a sunlit lawn at Eagle Creek, a green pond and trees behind Still-life painting: a human skull in profile shelved inside a rough wooden box beside a small glass bottle of clear water Sketchbook 43 spread: a real pressed pansy taped over pencil pansies in a vase; opposite, a portrait of an older man in a tank top and a note on seeing the work of Steven Assael, 26 May 2012 Cover of sketchbook 33: the sleeping face of van Eyck's God the Father from the Ghent Altarpiece turned sideways in its gold inscribed halo, set into pebbled leather and tapestry Still from Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book: a body covered in black calligraphy, arms spread wide under falling rain against darkness Grid of fifteen video frames shot along a highway: billboards reading Available, poles and power lines under a hand-tinted pastel sky Sketchbook held up in a park: brown-ink drawing of the pond with a dark figure's ripples, the real pond and lawn behind it Comic panels of Death from Neil Gaiman's Sandman: the pale girl in black, ankh at her throat, moving through a crowded street Orientalist painting of Salome: a dark-haired woman with hoop earrings and bared breast in a red sash skirt, gripping a brass platter and blade Sketchbook 49 spread: three charcoal-grey figure studies — a heavy nude bending with hands on knee, a striding draped figure with sword strap, and a fainter climbing figure Grainy black-and-white video still from Rosas' Elena's Aria: two women seated on wooden chairs against a bare wall, one crossing her legs, one clutching her shoulder Despair.com demotivational poster, Procrastination: a figure gazes over a sea of clouds — laziness always pays off now iPod ebook page from Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid with highlighted lines: the goddess rose out of the depth and began the old story of how she was loved by a river Mirror self-portrait in the Louvre's terracotta rooms: phone raised between the panes of a black vitrine full of small antique figures, a visitor rubbing her eyes at left Path production prints: black-and-white posters of the six sisters hung on a line, and the tall Scarlet poster taped up over the tidy desk Documentation of the ZBrush Spotlight dial: a dark ring of twenty-six numbered icons with a contents list from Rotate and Scale through Smudge, Hue, and Paint

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