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Cover of sketchbook 49: dark green cloth with a pasted photograph of a granite Egyptian head on its museum pedestal

Cover of sketchbook 48: an old ledger bound in red leather and swirled brown marbled paper, scuffed white at the edges

Cover of sketchbook 47: a graphite study of the Farnese Hercules from behind set into the gilt-framed panel of a worn red book cover

Cover of sketchbook 46: plain grey-green linen with a black elastic band, unadorned

Cover of sketchbook 45: a small oil painting glued to the black cloth board — two extracted molar teeth painted thickly in ivory against a deep teal ground

Cover of sketchbook 44: a red 19th-century publisher's binding stamped in gold, titled 'Feu et Flamme', the author's name blacked out — an antique book altered into a sketchbook

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

Cover of sketchbook 42: olive-green board embossed with a crackle pattern, a strip of yellowed cloth tape along the stitched spine and a bent wire clip at top

Cover of sketchbook 41: grey-blue board stenciled with curling vines, a moth sealed under a round window, a blue tape stripe and a Belgian lion patch

Cover of sketchbook 40: plain dark grey woven bookcloth, worn at the corners, no title

Cover of sketchbook 39: half marbled paper veined in red, half grey felt with visible stitching, a pen clipped into the top edge

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

Cover of sketchbook 37: red Moleskine overlaid with gold paper drawn over in red vines and lettering — 'The...King' — a printed eye peering through the tendrils

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

Cover of sketchbook 35: a red Moleskine planner with a Polaroid of dried leaves taped under plastic, dated 2008/11/16

Cover of sketchbook 34: a bluethroat songbird collaged upside down with a sprig of blossoms, over rosy paint on black board with a red rectangle above

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

Cover of sketchbook 32, light side: two panels of tan player-piano roll paper, the perforated note slots scattered like morse code, a red band between

Cover of sketchbook 31: a plain black Moleskine with its elastic band, scuffed from travel

Cover of sketchbook 30: a hanging cluster of pale bell-like flowers painted over turquoise and gold wash

Cover of sketchbook 29: a painted collaged face on black — cropped bands of eyes, nose and grinning teeth assembled into a mask

Cover of sketchbook 28: swirling marbled paper in sage, rust and cream, held shut by four pale elastic bands

Cover of sketchbook 27: a cream string-tie envelope with red button closures, bordered in blue-and-orange Japanese fan paper, a faint face sketched at top

Cover of sketchbook 26: a thick black branching form like roots or veins inked over waxed book text crosshatched with shadows

Cover of sketchbook 25: dark green cloth with a small black-and-white photo of Devils Tower and three red ribbons hanging down

Cover of sketchbook 24: grey-black felt with a gold eagle medallion reading 'Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Modern World'

Cover of sketchbook 23B: a narrow old ledger bound in dark marbled paper, red cloth at the spine, edges worn to orange

Cover of sketchbook 23A: plain deep magenta cloth, worn and water-stained, no title

Cover of sketchbook 22B: a dark overexposed photograph of a crowd raising round-headed forms, like a procession seen through fog

Cover of sketchbook 22A: a striped box drawn in black ink on pink board with 'present' written in cursive across it, signed Auriea Harvey

Cover of sketchbook 21B: red felt covered in dark oval link shapes touched with gold, signed '21 TDM' — The Disease Manifesto

Cover of sketchbook 21A, 'The Disease Manifesto': white moon and streaked clouds on black-blue night, a pasted caption reading 'Night; stars and a bright moon.'

Cover of sketchbook 20, 'Psyche Story': a winged figure in a pale blue gown collaged over gauze and yellowed floral paper — 'now I feel all my life has needed was one good dream'

Cover of sketchbook 19: mustard felt-covered board with a small window of antique printed text pasted at center

Cover of sketchbook 18: a silhouetted photo-booth portrait taped under wrinkled white tissue streaked with rusty red drips

Cover of sketchbook 17: cream paper with a small dark varnished window of foliage over faint cursive script, red velvet spine at left

Cover of sketchbook 16B: raw grey board with a pasted three-panel comic strip — a woman's face, a burst of static, dark tentacles — captioned '...my wound healed, and I continued my journey'

Cover of sketchbook 16A: red cloth with a transferred engraving of a cluttered table of tools and instruments, worn and stained

Cover of sketchbook 15: the darkened, cracked contents page of an antique reader collaged under murky brown paint, entries like 'Trust in God' underlined in red

Grey placeholder card reading 'THERE IS NO BOOK 14' in serif capitals

Cover of sketchbook 13: dark blue-black board with a single pasted image of a theater curtain labeled 'unknown'

Cover of sketchbook 12B: black board flecked with white and pink paint, collaged strips of patterned paper and a small photo of a white horse at center

Cover of sketchbook 12A: worn grey-green board mottled with dark stains, taped spine, and a tiny white '#12' label at center

Cover of sketchbook 11, black leather-grain board with a small pasted label: 'THE NEW SCHOOL MUST FALL! LONG LIVE PARSONS!'

Cover of sketchbook 10: a dark window taped into mottled blue-green painted board, an X of white creases over a swirling green orb

Cover of sketchbook 9: pink-washed board stamped 'ENCLOSED' in red, scratched with a circled monogram and penciled 'retro-sketch #IX Auriea L. Harvey — PROFOUND IDEAS'

Cover of sketchbook 8 (1990s): silver paint scrawled with dense handwriting around a torn red 'FRAGILE' sticker split by a lightning crack, above a Vitruvian-style figure in a grid

Cover of sketchbook 7 (1990): white spiral book covered in pink lipstick kisses, inked 'Auriea Sketchbook VII — chaos is my life — Pseudo Quasi Real', 20 Aug–26 Sept

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

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

$Cover of sketchbook 4: black leather-look book collaged with a blurred self-portrait photo in a fractal frame, lettered in green — 'Pseudo Quasi Real' and 'chaos is my life'$

Cover of sketchbook 3: black leather painted 'AURIEA'S SKETCHBOOK III' in purple around a photo of a hand with a chaos-star drawn on it, one eye peering past

Cover of sketchbook 1: a red chaos star on black, 'RIEA' in white block letters, 'CHAOS is my life' at the hub — 'Auriea Harvey's Sketchbook'

Cover of the earliest sketchbook, mustard yellow and dense with ink doodles: 'RIEA!', 'UTILITY SKETCHBOOK', Japanese characters, spirals, faces, 1989