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A Burlington Magazine anthology open to the 1998 article The Raphael Tapestry Cartoons Re-examined, with a pricked cartoon head of a woman as its plate Sliver of a 3d viewport, three heads at the bottom edge, filename shouting: thatswhatyougetwhenyoumisusewhatiinventyourempirefallsandyouloseeverycent.png Grid of grainy black-and-white webcam self-portraits: Auriea in a tank top posing and blurring, a raised palm with VSOP written on it, and close-ups of one eye Hands holding open James Jean's Fables covers book: 'No. 67 The Good Prince' with knight and giants, and 'No. 43 Arabian Nights (and Days)' djinn spread Sketchbook 32 spread: Washington Square Park fountain in white and brown gouache, black silhouettes circling through hot pink swirls — 'a beautiful day after meeting with Wayne + Ashley, 2006' Song lyrics hand-lettered in black marker filling a yellow legal page, beginning ring them bells and ending in rows of small asterisk stars Sketchbook spread in ballpoint: gothic spires and hanging chandelier-like forms of Riverside Church, drawn dense and scratchy across both pages E-reader glowing in the dark, thumb on the page: Anne Carson's dedication to Keats, '…FOR HIS GENERAL SURRENDER TO BEAUTY. A wound gives off its own light, surgeons say.' Two frames from Ghibli's A Country Doctor–style animation: a boy leaping off a sea cliff, and sunflowers hanging over towering clouds, upside down A single white dahlia wide open in a green glass vase with sprigs of eucalyptus, on a white table Sketchbook 46, 8 March at the Met: graphite and watercolor study of the Crouching Aphrodite marble, wine-red shadows at her hip, a rainbow of paint swatches down the page edge Group photograph of the Bauhaus masters in coats and hats on the Dessau roof — Gropius, Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy among them Sketchbook 44 spread: Mary Flanagan's IndieCade keynote — her full-length portrait beside her list from Jacquard to Gygax — facing notes from Richard Lemarchand's USC class with studies of clasped hands and a wire tangle Valentine's mail from Marian Bantjes: hand-calligraphed envelope from Bowen Island, a violet sheet dense with swirling script, Canada stamp Sketchbook 47 spread: two graphite studies of a curly-headed marble Venus, with notes on Fetti's 'Melancholy', Thomas Boudin, and Coysevox's 'Crouching Venus' — 'she's looking heavenward, sitting on a tortoise' Vatican City, Vatican City — The Borgo Angelico held her in its greenish gray — that muted tone of weathered plaster, the ground itself. Salvador Dalí's 'Ten rules for him who wishes to be a painter', from rule 1 on making gold come out of your brush to rule 10: 'If painting doesn't love you, all your love for her will be unavailing' Grainy photograph of the transit of Venus: an arrow points to the planet's small dark silhouette against the Sun's blurred limb Ink-wash self-portrait of half of Auriea's face in sepia strokes, one braid falling past her eye, the rest of the sheet left bare The Path character sheet '2_Rose': four polaroids of the girl in the red hood and dress at different ages, a green hedge-maze icon at left 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 Dark digital drawing: a doll-like face buried in a storm of scribbled black hair over mottled green and magenta Handwritten shorthand alphabet on dotted paper, a to z over their stroke signs, with the quick brown fox pangram written out in shorthand below Sketchbook 40 spread on the game that became Bientôt l'été: door-and-level diagrams, color theory notes on hue value chroma, and the Room 101 passage from Orwell copied out Nick Cave's From Her to Eternity in iTunes, track 4 playing, the young Nick Cave cover at left Freedom of Teach male écorché reference figure in grey resin: front, side, and back views of the full flayed musculature Atta Kim's long-exposure Making Love: two bodies dissolved into a single yellow-green cloud of light on darkness Raw photogrammetry scan for The Flower Seller: a grey ragged-edged bust with a blurred face, an armful of thick-petaled blooms dissolving into scan debris Two frames of Kim Basinger in 9½ Weeks: standing in a doorway in a trench coat, then lying down, hand in her hair, a man's shoulder in front 3D-scanned portrait of the artists mother in blue-white on black: head wrapped in a scarf, face in profile, the shoulders dissolving into torn point-cloud lace Sketchbook 46 spread: life-drawing session painted over a violet watercolor ground — standing, bending and cross-legged nudes reserved in white, one small figure in full dark wash Botticelli's Map of Hell (c. 1485): the funnel-shaped abyss of Dante's Inferno in tempera on parchment, its terraced rings of the damned narrowing down to Lucifer at the point Björk in profile for Medúlla, her dark hair braided into an elaborate crown that arcs off her head and veils her face — photo Inez & Vinoodh Sketchbook 32, page 34: pencil study of Rodin's Old Courtesan ('She Who Was Once the Helmet Maker's Beautiful Wife'), her bowed bony body in profile 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 Wings3D-style wireframe of a bob-haired girl's head, red mesh lines over flat tan and brown, one eye textured Artefact Festival 2006 posters spread on a green sofa, each showing a misty forest of tall bare trees with a tiny red figure Collage for MinoRinth: two mirrored profiles of Auriea joined like a Janus head, each face half-hidden by a horned grey bull's head Sketchbook 45 spread: graphite still life of a clementine with a dried curling leaf on its stem, and a separate leafy twig floating on the facing page Self-portrait against a projection: standing in a black feathered coat, eyes down, while blossoms and branches wash over the wall and face Sketchbook 32: pencil studies of heads — a downcast woman at left, and a large anguished bearded face, eyes closed, drawn dark and dense AP news graphic 'A broken heart is not just folklore': a grey figure with heart, brain, kidneys and numbered steps explaining stress-hormone cardiomyopathy, after the New England Journal of Medicine Duchamp's Air de Paris: a glass ampoule like a teardrop ornament, hooked at the top, hanging on a thread — fifty cc of Paris Body scan, 2002: a horizontal abdominal incision closed with a row of metal staples, stained gauze pads resting above it Sketchbook page filled with dense spiral scribble columns, a small eye and profile drawn below, Japanese writing in the margin Sketchbook 5: ballpoint self-portrait close-up, face filling the right of the page with lips parted, a chair and window line-drawn behind Small verdigris bronze: a rough crouched form, part shell and part gilled fungus, raised on thin wire legs over a bed of cast leaves Sketchbook 43 spread titled '5 still lives': graphite studies of a sleeping spaniel, a looming foreshortened face, a crouched nude, and a girl in a skirt standing with a bag Grid of fifteen video frames shot along a highway: billboards reading Available, poles and power lines under a hand-tinted pastel sky Soft grayscale painting of a white rabbit at rest with ears raised, glazed like porcelain against a white ground

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