MOBY-DICK, Page 550

Title: "Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!"

8.25 inches by 12 inches
ink on watercolor paper
January 23, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 543

Title: Their hands met; their eyes fastened; Starbuck's tears the glue.

"Oh, my captain, my captain! - noble heart - go not - go not! - see, it's a brave man that weeps; how great the agony of the persuasion then!"

6.25 inches by 10 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
January 17, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 542

Title: "What's this? - green? aye, tiny mosses in these warped cracks. No such green weather stains on Ahab's head! There's the difference now between man's old age and matter's. But aye, old mast, we both grow old together; sound in our hulls, though, are we not, my ship?"

8.25 inches by 12 inches
ink, marker and watercolor on watercolor paper
January 17, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 541 (second, final version)

Title: "Aye, he's chasing me now; not I, him - that's bad..."

7 inches by 7 inches
acrylic paint and ink on Bristol board
January 20, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 541 (first, unused version)

(This was my first attempt at the image. Obviously thinking about the ouroboros as well as E.R. Eddison's amazing fantasy novel The Worm Ouroboros. I felt that this attempt was just a bit too static and perhaps even a little lifeless. I'm not absolutely thrilled with my second attempt, in the post above this, but I do feel it has a bit more life and a bit more horror in it so I am going with that one.)

Title: "Aye, he's chasing me now; not I, him - that's bad..."

7 inches by 7 inches
ink and marker on Bristol board
January 17, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 539

Title: "Ahab is for ever Ahab, man."

7 inches by 8.5 inches
ink on Bristol board
January 15, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 531

Title: "Men, this gold is mine, for I earned it..."

6 inches by 9.25 inches
colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper
January 8, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 530

Title: ...thus to and fro pacing, beneath his slouched hat, at every turn he passed his own wrecked boat, which had been dropped upon the quarter-deck, and lay there reversed; broken bow to shattered stern. At last he paused before it; and as in an already over-clouded sky fresh troops of clouds will sometimes sail across, so over the old man's face there now stole some such added gloom as this.

6.25 inches by 10 inches
ink on found paper
January 7, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 529

Title: In an instant's compass, great hearts sometimes condense to one deep pang, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly diffused through feebler men's whole lives.

10 inches by 6.25 inches
ink and marker on found paper
January 7, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 527

Title: ...then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe.

8.5 inches by 7 inches
charcoal and pencil on found paper
January 4, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 526

Title: Through and through; through every plank and each rib, it thrilled for an instant, the whale obliquely lying on his back, in the manner of a biting shark, slowly and feelingly taking its bows full within his mouth, so that the long, narrow, scrolled lower jaw curled high up into the open air...

6 inches by 9 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
January 3, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 521

Title: "Is Ahab, Ahab?"

7 inches by 8.5 inches
ink on Bristol board
December 31, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 520

Title: "...forty years on the pitiless sea! for forty years has Ahab forsaken the peaceful land, for forty years to make war on the horrors of the deep!"

8.25 inches by 12 inches
acrylic paint on watercolor paper
December 31, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 519

Title: From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop.

6 inches by 10 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
December 31, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 515

Title: ...Ahab gazed abroad upon the sea for miles and miles, - ahead, astern, this side, and that, - within the wide expanded circle commanded at so great a height.

15.5 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, charcoal and ink on found paper
December 29, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 514

Title: ...Ahab seemed an independent lord; the Parsee but his slave. Still again both seemed yoked together...

8.25 inches by 12 inches
colored pencil and ink on watercolor paper
December 28, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 513

Title: As the unsetting polar star, which through the livelong, arctic, six months' night sustains its piercing, steady, central gaze; so Ahab's purpose now fixedly gleamed down upon the constant midnight of the gloomy crew.

8 inches by 11.5 inches
ink on found paper
December 28, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 510

Title: ...then in a voice that prolongingly moulded every word - "Captain Gardiner, I will not do it. Even now I lose time. Good bye, good bye."

10.75 inches by 15.5 inches
acrylic paint, charcoal and ink on found paper
December 26, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 506

Title: "Seems to me some sort of Equator cuts yon old man, too, right in his middle. He's always under the Line - fiery hot, I tell ye!"

15.5 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, ballpoint pen, charcoal and colored pencil on found paper
December 24, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 501

Title: "Come! I feel prouder leading thee by thy black hand, than though I grasped an Emperor's!"

8 inches by 12 inches
acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper
December 21, 2010