Tuesday, February 9, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 157

Title: "...I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."

5 inches by 8 inches
colored pencil and ink on found paper
February 9, 2010

Sunday, February 7, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 156

Title: "Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the horn, and round the Norway maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up."

11 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint, ballpoint pen, ink and marker on found paper
February 7, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 155

Title: "Captain Ahab," said Tashtego, "that white whale must be the same that some call Moby Dick."

7.75 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
February 7, 2010

Saturday, February 6, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 154

Title: "Look ye! d'ye see this Spanish ounce of gold?" — holding up a broad bright coin to the sun — "it is a sixteen dollar piece, men. D'ye see it?"

8.25 inches by 11.75 inches
ink on found paper
February 6, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 153

Title: Did you fixedly gaze, too, upon that ribbed and dented brow; there also, you would see still stranger foot-prints — the foot-prints of his one unsleeping, ever-pacing thought.

11.5 inches by 8.25 inches
collage and ink on found paper
February 6, 2010

Thursday, February 4, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 152

Title: ...but lulled into such an opium-like listlessness of vacant, unconscious reverie is this absent-minded youth by the blending cadence of waves with thoughts, that at last he loses his identity...

4.25 inches by 7 inches
ink on found paper
February 4, 2010

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 151

Title: ...yet that disadvantage is greatly counterbalanced by the widely contrasting serenity of those seductive seas in which we South fishers mostly float.

6.25 inches by 10 inches
colored pencil on found paper
February 3, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 150

Title: ...vagrant sea unicorns infesting those waters...

8.25 inches by 11.75 inches
ballpoint pen on found paper
February 3, 2010

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 149

Title: ...for as the soul is glued inside of its fleshly tabernacle...

8 inches by 9 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
February 2, 2010

Monday, February 1, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 148

Title: There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea...

6.25 inches by 7.75 inches
ink on found paper
February 1, 2010