tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post1070030580281126168..comments2023-04-07T03:46:10.167-04:00Comments on Every Page of Moby-Dick and more...: MOBY-DICK, Page 545Matt Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00146374807705850842noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-78669994536413249842011-01-27T12:20:04.556-05:002011-01-27T12:20:04.556-05:00matt, thanks so much for you response. you caught ...matt, thanks so much for you response. you caught it just right. abstract, a wall, and yet it has an edge that gives it life.<br /><br />(this all thrilling approaching end makes me wish we could throw a party and all be there in person!... hi titus! hi buck!)voicenovoice/élisabeth guinsbourghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13090845648417699547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-38784669158440420052011-01-27T10:15:59.993-05:002011-01-27T10:15:59.993-05:00Lizzy, the abstraction is actually an homage to th...Lizzy, the abstraction is actually an homage to the illustrator Rockwell Kent and an allusion to an earlier speech of Ahab's. When talking about Moby Dick to Starbuck, Ahab says "All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event - in the living act, the undoubted deed - there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond." So I wanted to show, especially here at the awful end, the White Whale as that terrifying wall, shoved near to Ahab, that he wants to smash and reach beyond. Moby Dick in this piece is less a living creature and more a blank, featureless, terrifying concept looming large.Matt Kishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17854685960260054407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-87008313284276361272011-01-27T10:13:03.278-05:002011-01-27T10:13:03.278-05:00Again, a perfect and thrilling comment Titus! The ...Again, a perfect and thrilling comment Titus! The whale is rising violently from the crashing waves, but the corpse of Fedallah is deadly still, almost crucified to the side. Thank you!Matt Kishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17854685960260054407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-72741055717571641362011-01-27T10:12:09.405-05:002011-01-27T10:12:09.405-05:00Awesome, yes! Thank you Buck! I so wanted this to ...Awesome, yes! Thank you Buck! I so wanted this to be spectral and dreadful.Matt Kishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17854685960260054407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-49642748734766497222011-01-26T16:49:38.149-05:002011-01-26T16:49:38.149-05:00i love how it is abstract and also so expressive, ...i love how it is abstract and also so expressive, so wrenching.voicenovoice/élisabeth guinsbourghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13090845648417699547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-86955844547718638382011-01-26T16:22:10.301-05:002011-01-26T16:22:10.301-05:00Looks bloody good little too.
Stunning work, so mu...Looks bloody good little too.<br />Stunning work, so much movement and then the weird contrast of the stillness of the lines and body.Titushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16380213493011623153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-62807381313143012992011-01-26T09:34:21.763-05:002011-01-26T09:34:21.763-05:00Scary good.Scary good.Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17834360422359513050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265792817762899253.post-35984529120418098172011-01-26T08:50:01.965-05:002011-01-26T08:50:01.965-05:00Click on this one to make it bigger on your screen...Click on this one to make it bigger on your screen. It truly looks much much better larger.Matt Kishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17854685960260054407noreply@blogger.com