Saturday, December 25, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 492

Title: ...like the feathers of an albatross, which sometimes are cast to the winds when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
ink on found paper
December 13, 2010

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  1. TitusDecember 25, 2010 at 7:49 PM

    Wow to the bird, love the grain of the original photograph and the initial difficulty in deciphering what?
    Loads of good stuff underneath too.
    But most of all, Merry Christmas!

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  2. Matt KishDecember 26, 2010 at 9:32 AM

    Way back in 2004, in the second issue of my little homemade comic "Spudd 64," I drew a vast winged thing that I eventually started calling the brick bird. It looked very much like these albatrosses I have been drawing for the Moby-Dick project, and I am certain that even back in 2004 the first brick bird was inspired by something called a sand bird from a videogame (which I loved) called Super Mario Sunshine.

    It continues to amaze me how, in exploring my own personal vision of a deeply complex 109 year old novel about whaling (and everything else) I am somehow subconsciously and syncretically blending in Japanese videogames and science fiction comics.

    And Merry Christmas to you as well! By now, it is Boxing Day here but I did have a pretty good day yesterday. No, back to work for me!

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  3. scottDecember 26, 2010 at 2:47 PM

    First thing that came to mind was a huge dragon flying off a Japanese carrier...been reading alot of Japanaes books of late!

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  4. Matt KishDecember 28, 2010 at 10:34 AM

    I was puzzling over just what that long runway was. I found this page in an old and huge book about the history of aviation, but I sliced it up before really spending much time puzzling out the contents. I do like your take on it though - a huge dragon flying off from a Japanese carrier sounds pretty cool to me.

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