Monday, May 3, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 234

Title: It was not very long after speaking the Goney that another homeward-bound whaleman, the Town-Ho, was encountered. She was manned almost wholly by Polynesians.

11 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper
May 3, 2010

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8 comments:

  1. suzanneMay 4, 2010 at 12:40 PM

    these are all FANTASTIC, Matt!

    I put a link up
    at the fictionalwoods
    literary forum
    where a bunch of Voracious Readers
    who love Melville
    hang out

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  2. Reed SandersMay 4, 2010 at 10:22 PM

    Pretty amazing. Why "found paper"?

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  3. voicenovoice/élisabeth guinsbourgMay 5, 2010 at 9:00 AM

    since subscribing to your blog, every time i go to feed my own (www.voicenovoice.org) i am enchanted with your work.
    plus i admire your steadfastness.
    (i have in mind to (re)discover the whole of moby dick solely through your blog entries some day)
    thanks

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  4. Matt KishMay 5, 2010 at 9:24 PM

    Suzanne, thank you, I (probably obviously) really enjoy drawing whales and ships, in that order. I know these look nothing at all like the ships that really sailed the seas hunting for whales, but honestly these are what I see in my head when I read "Moby-Dick."

    Thank you very much for sharing the link as well. It makes me very happy to share this project with people, and hopefully I am able to show them something they might not have ever seen or thought of before.

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  5. Matt KishMay 5, 2010 at 9:26 PM

    Hello Reed. There is a long answer somewhere on this blog (I think if you click the "questions people ask me" tag on the right it made be there) but a more succinct explanation is that when I was in grad school I worked in a used book store where we would discard lots of interesting but unsellable books. I stockpiled a bunch of these, especially drawn to maps and diagrams, thinking I would use them for something creative some day. When I started this Moby-Dick project, I thought of how deeply complex the novel is and how there are multiple layers of meaning. I wanted to echo that with the art so I chose to start re-using a lot of that paper, fascinated by the way that bits of text and image would show through the layers of paint and ink.

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  6. Matt KishMay 5, 2010 at 9:27 PM

    voiceonvoice, it means so much to know that somehow this work of mine is able to inspire and sustain other creative individuals all over the world. That is the greatest reward I could ever ask for.

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  7. Reed SandersMay 8, 2010 at 3:27 PM

    Thanks for the explanation, Matt. You're right. It certainly adds a whole other dimension to the work.

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  8. Matt KishMay 8, 2010 at 9:58 PM

    You are very welcome, Reed. The comments people leave on this blog are a source of great interest and inspiration for me, and it is really a pleasure to be able to share some of my own thoughts and processes in my replies.

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