from Punk Faun: a bar rock pastel Patrons of poetic invention demand! in whatever attitude and ways you please, have to fight fiercely with a lascivious crowd of fauns, satyrs and several thousand cupids Patrons of poetic invention demand! some swimming through the river some flying some riding upon white swans I am sending you these details in a small drawing, so that with both the written description and the drawing you will be able to consider my wishes in this matter. But if you think that perhaps there are too many figures in this for one picture, it is left to you to reduce them as you please [. . .] If no inconvenience occurs I shall consider myself well satisfied; you are free to reduce them, but not to add anything else. Please be content with this arrangement.                                                                          Isabella d’Este to Perugino   small wax models define the muscalature of attitudes struck someone nearby looks up pertinent actions attempts escape or accepts confinement in an ideal plaster écorche with lids a foreshortened future in a stripped monochrome drips up against gravitational pull or manners an easily recognised pout stylish beside itself flaying gestures ornate to ceiling Stubbs sticks to horses envious as a Real Work of Art trots by and the sinews wilt among materially assumed set ups and learned behaviours that bring flesh upon you by the book unleashed incite and overturn battered to a cod-face or found floating in vats of abstraction all flap anatomy and fugitive sheets hidden beneath emotional zones mapped and covered by the skin of public transports an anatomical study of the swooning virgin supported by two holy women takes the escalator in search of famous states-of-mind districts and is disappointed by the lack of opportunities for concrete interventions there is the use of ropes and pulleys for support in tiring or difficult poses, the classical lycra sheen body that opens with a hinge is set on silent mode so as not to disturb those in the bleachers worried about missing a single strike offering leaves plastic tabling decoration sold wealthy in gratuities dumbed spread without funds for an altar paintings hung on trees by an industry of mannequins dressing windows showy with crystal limbs suspended        in pursuit tearing clothes aggregate of form dissolves right sided in wax or dressed saved from attempts   on life imitations spread cloned tourists at feet up on the bloodied strewn ex votos lap principle of a plane then lines drawn hover hooded outlines at the bus stop ran watery system of a naked body measured front put   eyes  nose  mouth and ears at the right measured places various figures in lead white corrected    correct mistakes contracted out pigment by pigment how much gold how much lapis lazuli a family of private commissions walls around the garden sourced from films or in repro of the presentation of the virgin at the temple standing in line to pay in a cheque at the bank or a delicate stay at home carving fruit stones a young woman not excellent only in household matters the whole passion on a peach-pit unrequited spat framed by a handy Old Testament quote reluctantly paid for two sibyls two angels and one relief on August 4th 1526 retired devoted to copper engraving without reproach