MOBY-DICK, Page 547

Title: At length as the craft was cast to one side, and ran ranging along with the White Whale's flank, he seemed strangely oblivious of its advance...

15.5 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
January 21, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 536

Title: That instant, the White Whale made a sudden rush among the remaining tangles of the other lines; by so doing, irresistibly dragged the more involved boats of Stubb and Flask towards his flukes; dashed them together like two rolling husks on a surf-beaten beach, and then, diving down into the sea, disappeared in a boiling maelstrom...

10.75 inches by 15.5 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
January 13, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 535

Title: ...the White Whale churning himself into furious speed, almost in an instant as it were, rushing among the boats with open jaws, and a lashing tail, offered appalling battle on every side; and heedless of the irons darted at him from every boat, seemed only intent on annihilating each separate plank of which those boats were made.

7.5 inches by 10.5 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
January 11, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 509

Title: "My boy, my own boy is among them. For God's sake - I beg, I conjure" - here exclaimed the stranger Captain to Ahab, who thus far had but icily received his petition. "For eight-and-forty hours let me charter your ship - I will gladly pay for it, and roundly pay for it - if there be no other way - for eight-and-forty hours only - only that - you must, oh, you must, and you shall do this thing."

7 inches by 8.5 inches
ink on Bristol board
December 26, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 494

Title: "A touch, and Starbuck may survive to hug his wife and child again. - Oh Mary! Mary! - boy! boy! boy! - But if I wake thee not to death, old man, who can tell to what unsounded deeps Starbuck's body this day week may sink, with all the crew! Great God, where art thou? Shall I? shall I?"

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
December 16, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 483

Title: "But I am not a brave man; never said I was a brave man; I am a coward..."

8.5 inches by 7 inches
acrylic paint, colored pencil, ink and pencil on found paper
December 8, 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 233 (re-drawn)

(For various reasons, a handful of these illustrations needed to be redrawn. These are the new versions.)

Title: And often you will notice that being conscious of the eyes of the whole visible world resting on him from the sides of the two ships, this standing captain is all alive to the importance of sustaining his dignity by maintaining his legs.

6.25 inches by 9.25 inches
ink and marker on found paper
October 31, 2010


(original version below)

MOBY-DICK, Page 158 (re-drawn)

(For various reasons, a handful of these illustrations needed to be redrawn. These are the new versions.)

Title: "God keep me! — keep us all!" murmured Starbuck, lowly.

9.5 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper
October 31, 2010


(original version below)

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

MOBY-DICK, Page 418

Title: "Well; the sun he wheels among 'em. Aye, here on the coin he's just crossing the threshold between two of twelve sitting-rooms all in a ring."

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper
October 23, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 417

Title: "So in this vale of Death, God girds us round; and over all our gloom, the sun of Righteousness still shines a beacon and a hope. If we bend down our eyes, the dark vale shows her mouldy soil; but if we lift them, the bright sun meets our glance half way, to cheer."

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper
October 21, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 412

Title: But the whaleman, as he seeks the food of light, so he lives in light.

7.75 inches by 10.25 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
October 17, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 407

Title: While employed in polishing them—one man in each pot, side by side—many confidential communications are carried on, over the iron lips.

11 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint and pencil on found paper
October 14, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 394

Title: "Why, let me see; yes, you may as well tell him now that — that — in fact, tell him I've diddled him, and (aside to himself) perhaps somebody else."

6 inches by 9.25 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
September 30, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 393

Title: By this time their destined victim appeared from his cabin. He was a small and dark, but rather delicate looking man for a sea-captain, with large whiskers and moustache, however; and wore a red cotton velvet vest with watch-seals at his side.

6 inches by 12 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
September 30, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 392

Title: Others having broken the stems of their pipes almost short off at the bowl, were vigorously puffing tobacco-smoke, so that it constantly filled their olfactories.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
September 29, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 383

Title: I. A Fast-Fish belongs to the party fast to it.

II. A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it.

8.5 inches by 7 inches
acrylic paint, collage and ink on found paper
September 21, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 382

Title: Thus the most vexatious and violent disputes would often arise between the fishermen...

9.25 inches by 6 inches
collage and ink on found paper
September 20, 2010