MOBY-DICK, Page 459

Title: Now, at this time it was that my poor pagan companion, and fast bosom-friend, Queequeg, was seized with a fever, which brought him nigh to his endless end.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, colored pencil and ink on found paper
November 22, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 458

Title: Ahab seized a loaded musket from the rack (forming part of most South-Sea-men's cabin furniture), and pointing it towards Starbuck, exclaimed: "There is one God that is Lord over the earth, and one Captain that is lord over the Pequod. — On deck!"

10.75 inches by 7.75 inches
ink on found paper
November 21, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 457

Title: "What we come twenty thousand miles to get is worth saving, Sir."

"So it is, so it is; if we get it."

15.5 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
November 21, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 456

Title: ...and let's finish it before the resurrection fellow comes a-calling with his horn for all legs, true or false...

7 inches by 8.5 inches
ink on Bristol board
November 20, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 455

Title: Well, well, well! Stubb knows him best of all, and Stubb always says he's queer; says nothing but that one sufficient little word queer; he's queer, says Stubb; he's queer — queer, queer; and keeps dinning it into Mr. Starbuck all the time — queer, Sir—queer, queer, very queer.

7.5 inches by 9.5 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 20, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 454

Title: Hold; while Prometheus is about it, I'll order a complete man after a desirable pattern. Imprimis, fifty feet high in his socks; then, chest modelled after the Thames Tunnel; then, legs with roots to 'em, to stay in one place; then, arms three feet through the wrist; no heart at all, brass forehead, and about a quarter of an acre of fine brains; and let me see—shall I order eyes to see outwards? No, but put a sky-light on top of his head to illuminate inwards. There, take the order, and away.

5.75 inches by 7.75 inches
ink and marker on found paper
November 19, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 453

Title: ...for what's made in fire must properly belong to fire...

15.5 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 18, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 452

Title: Yet, as previously hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut carpenter, was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton. If he did not have a common soul in him, he had a subtle something that somehow anomalously did its duty.

8.5 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 16, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 451

Title: For nothing was this man more remarkable, than for a certain impersonal stolidity as it were; impersonal, I say; for it so shaded off into the surrounding infinite of things, that it seemed one with the general stolidity discernible in the whole visible world...

8.5 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 16, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 450

Title: But most humble though he was, and far from furnishing an example of the high, humane abstraction; the Pequod's carpenter was no duplicate; hence, he now comes in person on this stage.

8.5 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint, ink, pencil and marker on found paper
November 15, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 449

Title: ... take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
ink and marker on found paper
November 14, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 448

Title: With many other particulars concerning Ahab, always had it remained a mystery to some, why it was, that for a certain period, both before and after the sailing of the Pequod, he had hidden himself away with such Grand-Lama-like exclusiveness; and, for that one interval, sought speechless refuge, as it were, among the marble senate of the dead.

6 inches by 9 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
November 14, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 447

Title: ... and if ever the world is to be again flooded, like the Netherlands, to kill off its rats, then the eternal whale will still survive, and rearing upon the topmost crest of the equatorial flood, spout his frothed defiance to the skies.

10.75 inches by 15.5 inches
acrylic paint, ink and pencil on found paper
November 13, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 446

Title: ... so, hunted from the savannas and glades of the middle seas, the whale-bone whales can at last resort to their Polar citadels, and diving under the ultimate glassy barriers and walls there, come up among icy fields and floes; and in a charmed circle of everlasting December, bid defiance to all pursuit from man.

7 inches by 8.5 inches
ink and marker on Bristol board
November 13, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 445

Title: Forty men in one ship hunting the Sperm Whale for forty-eight months...

11 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint and charcoal on found paper
November 11, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 444

Title: But will any whaleman believe these stories? No. The whale of to-day is as big as his ancestors in Pliny's time. And if ever I go where Pliny is, I, a whaleman (more than he was), will make bold to tell him so.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
ink and marker on found paper
November 11, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 443

Title: For Pliny tells us of whales that embraced acres of living bulk, and Aldrovandus of others which measured eight hundred feet in length...

15.5 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 10, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 442

Title: I am horror-struck at this antemosaic, unsourced existence of the unspeakable terrors of the whale, which, having been before all time, must needs exist after all humane ages are over.

10 inches by 6.25 inches
ink on found paper
November 9, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 441

Title: But by far the most wonderful of all cetacean relics was the almost complete vast skeleton of an extinct monster, found in the year 1842, on the plantation of Judge Creagh, in Alabama. The awe-stricken credulous slaves in the vicinity took it for the bones of one of the fallen angels.

8.25 inches by 8 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 8, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 440

Title: To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

6.25 inches by 10 inches
ink and marker on found paper
November 7, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 439

Title: ...only think of the gigantic involutions of his intestines, where they lie in him like great cables and hausers coiled away in the subterranean orlop-deck of a line-of-battle-ship.

7.75 inches by 11 inches
ink on found paper
November 7, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 438

Title: Only in the heart of quickest perils; only when within the eddyings of his angry flukes; only on the profound unbounded sea, can the fully invested whale be truly and livingly found out.

7 inches by 8.5 inches
acrylic paint, colored pencil and ink on found paper
November 6, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 437

Title: ... according to my careful calculation, I say, a Sperm Whale of the largest magnitude, between eighty-five and ninety feet in length, and something less than forty feet in its fullest circumference, such a whale will weigh at least ninety tons; so that reckoning thirteen men to a ton, he would considerably outweigh the combined population of a whole village of one thousand one hundred inhabitants.

8.5 inches by 7 inches
ink on found paper
November 6, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 436

Title: The skeleton dimensions I shall now proceed to set down are copied verbatim from my right arm, where I had them tattooed; as in my wild wanderings at that period, there was no other secure way of preserving such valuable statistics.

8.5 inches by 5.5 inches
ballpoint pen on paper
November 5, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 435

Title: Now, amid the green, life-restless loom of that Arsacidean wood, the great, white, worshipped skeleton lay lounging—a gigantic idler! Yet, as the ever-woven verdant warp and woof intermixed and hummed around him, the mighty idler seemed the cunning weaver; himself all woven over with the vines; every month assuming greener, fresher verdure; but himself a skeleton. Life folded Death; Death trellised Life...

6 inches by 9 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 5, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 434

Title: ...in the skull, the priests kept up an unextinguished aromatic flame, so that the mystic head again sent forth its vapory spout...

8.5 inches by 7 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 4, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 433

Title: And as for my exact knowledge of the bones of the leviathan in their gigantic, full grown development, for that rare knowledge I am indebted to my late royal friend Tranquo, king of Tranque, one of the Arsacides.

7.75 inches by 10 inches
ink on found paper
November 3, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 432

Title: ... if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
ink on found paper
November 2, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 431

Title: But my friend Dr. Snodhead, a very learned man, professor of Low Dutch and High German in the college of Santa Claus and St. Pott's, to whom I handed the work for translation, giving him a box of sperm candles for his trouble—this same Dr. Snodhead, so soon as he spied the book, assured me that "Dan Coopman" did not mean "The Cooper", but "The Merchant".

7.5 inches by 7.5 inches
acrylic paint, collage and ink on wallpaper sample and chipboard
November 1, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 430

Title: During my researches in the leviathanic histories, I stumbled upon an ancient Dutch volume, which, by the musty whaling smell of it, I knew must be about whalers. The title was, "Dan Coopman", wherefore I concluded that this must be the invaluable memoirs of some Amsterdam cooper in the fishery, as every whale ship must carry its cooper. I was reinforced in this opinion by seeing that it was the production of one "Fitz Swackhammer".

5.25 inches by 7.5 inches
ink on old book cover
October 31, 2010