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 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 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 485

Title: ...while lit up by the preternatural light, Queequeg's tattooing burned like Satanic blue flames on his body.

10.75 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
December 9, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 471

Title: "Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!" deliriously howled Ahab, as the malignant iron scorchingly devoured the baptismal blood.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 30, 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 409

Title: ...as the wind howled on, and the sea leaped, and the ship groaned and dived, and yet steadfastly shot her red hell further and further into the blackness of the sea and the night, and scornfully champed the white bone in her mouth, and viciously spat round her on all sides; then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul.

9 inches by 7.5 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
October 17, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 408

Title: It smells like the left wing of the day of judgment; it is an argument for the pit.

15.5 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
October 14, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 399

Title: Then come out those fiery effulgences, infernally superb; then the evil-blazing diamond, once the divinest symbol of the crystal skies, looks like some crown-jewel stolen from the King of Hell.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
October 4, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 365

Title: So in dreams, have I seen majestic Satan thrusting forth his tormented colossal claw from the flame Baltic of Hell.

6 inches by 9 inches
ink and marker on found paper
September 3, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 352

Title: In fact, placed before the strict and piercing truth, this whole story will fare like that fish, flesh, and fowl idol of the Philistines, Dagon by name...

5 inches by 7.75 inches
ballpoint pen, colored pencil and ink on found paper
August 15, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 316

Title: "I don't know, Flask, but the devil is a curious chap, and a wicked one, I tell ye."

6 inches by 8 inches
ink and marker on found paper
July 19, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 315

Title: "Aye, will I! Flask, I take that Fedallah to be the devil in disguise..."

7.75 inches by 5 inches
acrylic paint, charcoal, ink and marker on found paper
July 18, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 223

Title: ...Beelzebub himself might climb up the side and step down into the cabin to chat with the captain...

10.75 inches by 15.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
April 11, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 194

Title: ...a chasm seemed opening in him, from which forked flames and lightnings shot up, and accursed fiends beckoned him to leap down among them...

8 inches by 10.75 inches
ink and marker on found paper
March 9, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 177

Title: All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.

7.75 inches by 11 inches
ink on found paper
February 28, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 173

Title: No wonder, then, that ever gathering volume from the mere transit over the widest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale did in the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid hints, and half-formed foetal suggestions of supernatural agencies, which eventually invested Moby Dick with new terrors unborrowed from anything that visibly appears.

11 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint, ballpoint pen, ink and pencil on found paper
February 23, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 162

Title: The white whale is their demigorgon.

7 inches by 9.5 inches
ink on found paper
February 13, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 083

Title: "...hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling..."

6.75 inches by 9.5 inches
crayon, ink and marker on found paper
November 24, 2009

MOBY-DICK, Page 076

Title: "Fiery pit! fiery pit! ye insult me, man; past all natural bearing, ye insult me. It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell. Flukes and flames!"

11 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 17, 2009