Showing posts with label works: moby-dick (flask). Show all posts
Showing posts with label works: moby-dick (flask). Show all posts

Saturday, October 23, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 419

Title: "I see nothing here, but a round thing made of gold, and whoever raises a certain whale, this round thing belongs to him. So, what's all this staring been about?"

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, ballpoint pen, charcoal and ink on found paper
October 23, 2010

Sunday, April 4, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 214

Title: But the sight of little Flask mounted upon gigantic Daggoo was yet more curious; for sustaining himself with a cool, indifferent, easy, unthought of, barbaric majesty, the noble negro to every roll of the sea harmoniously rolled his fine form. On his broad back, flaxen-haired Flask seemed a snow-flake. The bearer looked nobler than the rider.

8.5 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper
April 2, 2010

Thursday, January 28, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 143

Title: For what he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal in him.

5 inches by 8 inches
ballpoint pen and ink on found paper
January 28, 2010

Monday, December 28, 2009

MOBY-DICK, Page 116

Title: But it was especially the aspect of the three chief officers of the ship, the mates, which was most forcibly calculated to allay these colorless misgivings, and induce confidence and cheerfulness in every presentment of the voyage.

9 inches by 6.25 inches
ink on found paper
December 28, 2009

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

MOBY-DICK, Page 112

Title: The third mate was Flask, a native of Tisbury, in Martha's Vineyard. A short, stout, ruddy young fellow, very pugnacious concerning whales, who somehow seemed to think that the great Leviathans had personally and hereditarily affronted him; and therefore it was a sort of point of honor with him, to destroy them whenever encountered.

8.5 inches by 10 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper
December 23, 2009