Book5

SketchBooks

Pseudo Quasi Real
15 Apr 1990 - 27 May 1990
31 x 31 cm; spiral bound sketchbook w/added cardboard covers and polaroid

Cover of sketchbook 5 (1996): black spiral book chalked 'Pseudo Quasi Real — Auriea Sketchbook V' with a starburst doodle around a small photo of a torso Sketchbook 5: dense ballpoint drawing of a horse-like skull in profile, its teeth and cranial plates crosshatched into a black-and-white pattern Book5_life closed twice Sketchbook 5 fold-out scroll: collage of a torso photograph, a surgical-instruments catalog page, an Elric of Melniboné 'Stormbringer' text, film strip, comic panel and handwritten x-ray notes with red measurements Sketchbook 5: ballpoint self-portrait close-up, face filling the right of the page with lips parted, a chair and window line-drawn behind Sketchbook 5: layered ink drawing of Washington Square Park — the arch's shadow, globe lamps, fences and 'hushed stairs' woven into a dense patterned composition