HEART OF DARKNESS, page 040

Title: "'Each station should be like a beacon on the road towards better things, a centre for trade of course, but also for humanizing, improving, instructing.'"

6.75 inches by 11 inches
ink on watercolor paper
October 27, 2012

HEART OF DARKNESS, page 039

Title: "'Ivory,' jerked the nephew; 'lots of it -- prime sort -- lots -- most annoying, from him.'"

6.75 inches by 11 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
October 27, 2012

HEART OF DARKNESS, page 038

Title: "One evening as I was lying flat on the deck of my steamboat, I heard voices approaching -- and there were the nephew and the uncle strolling along the bank. I laid my head on my arm again, and had nearly lost myself in a doze, when somebody said in my ear, as it were: 'I am as harmless as a little child, but I don't like to be dictated to. Am I the manager -- or am I not? I was ordered to send him there. It's incredible.'...I became aware that the two were standing on the shore alongside the forepart of the steamboat, just below my head. I did not move; it did not occur to me to move: I was sleepy."

6.75 inches by 11 inches
ink on watercolor paper
October 21, 2012

HEART OF DARKNESS, page 037

Title: "Instead of rivets there came an invasion, an infliction, a visitation. It came in sections during the next three weeks, each section headed by a donkey carrying a white man in new clothes and tan shoes, bowing from that elevation right and left to the impressed pilgrims."

6.75 inches by 11 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
October 21, 2012

HEART OF DARKNESS, page 036

Title: "This was the foreman -- a boiler-maker by trade -- a good worker. He was a lank, bony, yellow-faced man, with big intense eyes. His aspect was worried, and his head was as bald as the palm of my hand; but his hair in falling seemed to have stuck to his chin, and had prospered in the new locality, for his beard hung down to his waist."

6.75 inches by 11 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
October 18, 2012

HEART OF DARKNESS, page 035

Title: "There was an old hippo that had the bad habit of getting out on the bank and roaming at night over the station grounds. The pilgrims used to turn out in a body and empty every rifle they could lay hands on at him. Some even had sat up o' nights for him. All this energy was wasted, though. 'That animal has a charmed life...'"

6.75 inches by 11 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
November 17, 2012

HEART OF DARKNESS, page 034

Title: "What I really wanted was rivets, by heaven! Rivets. To get on with the work -- to stop the hole. Rivets I wanted. There were cases of them down at the coast -- cases -- piled up -- burst -- split! You kicked a loose rivet at every second step in that station-yard on the hillside. Rivets had rolled into the grove of death. You could fill your pockets with rivets for the trouble of stooping down -- and there wasn't one rivet to be found where it was wanted."

6.75 inches by 11 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
October 14, 2012

HEART OF DARKNESS, page 033

Title: "We live, as we dream -- alone..."

6.75 inches by 11 inches
ink on watercolor paper
October 13, 2012

HEART OF DARKNESS, page 032

Title: "I had my shoulders against the wreck of my steamer, hauled up on the slope like a carcass of some big river animal. The smell of mud, of primeval mud, by Jove! was in my nostrils, the high stillness of primeval forest was before my eyes; there were shiny patches on the black creek. The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver -- over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple, over the great river I could see through a sombre gap glittering, glittering, as it flowed broadly by without a murmur."

6.75 inches by 11 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
October 13, 2012

HEART OF DARKNESS, page 031

(This is the piece that I worked on during yet another blackout. I wrote a bit about that and posted a few images, including this piece in progress, in this post.)

Title: "Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through that dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart -- its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life."

6.75 inches by 11 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
October 13, 2012

HEART OF DARKNESS, page 030

Title: "Then I noticed a small sketch in oils, on a panel, representing a woman, draped and blindfolded, carrying a lighted torch. The background was sombre -- almost black. The movement of the woman was stately, and the effect of the torchlight on the face was sinister."

6.75 inches by 11 inches
ink on watercolor paper
October 9, 2012

HEART OF DARKNESS, page 029

Title: "The business intrusted to this fellow was the making of bricks -- so I had been informed; but there wasn't a fragment of a brick anywhere in the station, and he had been there more than a year -- waiting."

6.75 inches by 11 inches
ink on watercolor paper
October 3, 2012

HEART OF DARKNESS, page 028

Title: "The flame had leaped high, driven everybody back, lighted up everything -- and collapsed."

6.75 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper
September 30, 2012