Showing posts with label works: moby-dick (angels). Show all posts
Showing posts with label works: moby-dick (angels). Show all posts

Saturday, November 27, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 456

Title: ...and let's finish it before the resurrection fellow comes a-calling with his horn for all legs, true or false...

7 inches by 8.5 inches
ink on Bristol board
November 20, 2010

Friday, November 12, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 441

Title: But by far the most wonderful of all cetacean relics was the almost complete vast skeleton of an extinct monster, found in the year 1842, on the plantation of Judge Creagh, in Alabama. The awe-stricken credulous slaves in the vicinity took it for the bones of one of the fallen angels.

8.25 inches by 8 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 8, 2010

Saturday, October 16, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 408

Title: It smells like the left wing of the day of judgment; it is an argument for the pit.

15.5 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
October 14, 2010

Thursday, September 2, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 363

Title: At the crotch or junction, these flukes slightly overlap, then sideways recede from each other like wings, leaving a wide vacancy between. In no living thing are the lines of beauty more exquisitely defined than in the crescentic borders of these flukes.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
ink on found paper
September 1, 2010

Saturday, June 26, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 289

Title: "Up dere," said Fleece, holding his tongs straight over his head, and keeping it there very solemnly.

5 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint, ballpoint pen, ink and marker on found paper
June 25, 2010

Friday, June 25, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 287

Title: "You is sharks, sartin; but if you gobern de shark in you, why den you be angel; for all angel is not'ing more dan de shark well goberned."

5 inches by 7.75 inches
ink and marker on found paper
June 23, 2010

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 224

Title: Lit up by the moon, it looked celestial; seemed some plumed and glittering god uprising from the sea.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
ink on found paper
April 12, 2010

Friday, February 19, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 168

Title: Hail, holy nakedness of our dancing girls!

8.5 inches by 11 inches
collage on chipboard and found paper
February 19, 2010

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

MOBY-DICK, Page 047

Title: "Delight is to him, who gives no quarter in the truth, and kills, burns, and destroys all sin..."

9 inches by 11.25 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
September 22, 2009

Sunday, September 13, 2009

MOBY-DICK, Page 038

Title: But high above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there floated a little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel's face; and this bright face shed a distinct spot of radiance upon the ship's tossed deck...

11 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint, collage and ink on found paper
September 13, 2009

Monday, August 10, 2009

MOBY-DICK, Page 005

Title: ...this, the invisible police officer of the Fates, who has the constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs me, and influences me in some unaccountable way...

7.75 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
August 9, 2009