Title: It is noon; and Dough-Boy, the steward, thrusting his pale loaf-of-bread face from the cabin-scuttle, announces dinner to his lord and master...
9 inches by 11 inches
ink on found paper
January 24, 2010
Title: ...two centuries and more ago, the command of a whale ship was not wholly lodged in the person now called the captain, but was divided between him and an officer called the Specksynder. Literally this word means Fat-Cutter...
8.25 inches by 11.5 inches acrylic paint, crayon and ink on found paper January 22, 2010
Title: The Fin-Back is not gregarious. He seems a whale-hater, as some men are man-haters. Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters...
15.75 inches by 10.75 inches ink and marker on found paper January 17, 2010
Title: As yet, however, the Sperm Whale, scientific or poetic, lives not complete in any literature. Far above all other hunted whales, his is an unwritten life.
8.5 inches by 7 inches ink on Bristol board January 15, 2010
Title: Of the names in this list of whale authors, only those following Owen ever saw living whales; and but one of them was a real professional harpooneer and whaleman. I mean Captain Scoresby.
8 inches by 11 inches acrylic paint, colored pencil, crayon, ink and marker on found paper January 15, 2010
Title: "What d'ye think of that now, Flask? ain't there a small drop of something queer about that, eh? a white whale — did ye mark that, man? Look ye — there's something special in the wind. Stand by for it, Flask."
10.5 inches by 8.5 inches
acrylic paint and ballpoint pen on notebook paper and masking tape (with incidental acrylic paint and ink)
January 13, 2010
Title: Starting at the unforeseen concluding exclamation of the so suddenly scornful old man, Stubb was speechless a moment; then said excitedly, "I am not used to be spoken to that way, sir; I do but less than half like it, sir."
7.75 inches by 11 inches ballpoint pen on found paper January 7, 2010
Title: The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up—flaked up, with rose-water snow.
8.5 inches by 5.5 inches ink and marker on paper January 6, 2010
Title: Upon each side of the Pequod's quarter deck, and pretty close to the mizen shrouds, there was an auger hole, bored about half an inch or so, into the plank. His bone leg steadied in that hole...
7.75 inches by 11 inches colored pencil and ink on found paper January 5, 2010