MOBY-DICK, Page 531

Title: "Men, this gold is mine, for I earned it..."

6 inches by 9.25 inches
colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper
January 8, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 420

Title: "Here's the ship's navel, this doubloon here, and they are all on fire to unscrew it. But, unscrew your navel, and what's the consequence? Then again, if it stays here, that is ugly, too, for when aught's nailed to the mast it's a sign that things grow desperate. Ha, ha! old Ahab! the White Whale; he'll nail ye!"

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
October 24, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 419

Title: "I see nothing here, but a round thing made of gold, and whoever raises a certain whale, this round thing belongs to him. So, what's all this staring been about?"

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, ballpoint pen, charcoal and ink on found paper
October 23, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 418

Title: "Well; the sun he wheels among 'em. Aye, here on the coin he's just crossing the threshold between two of twelve sitting-rooms all in a ring."

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper
October 23, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 417

Title: "So in this vale of Death, God girds us round; and over all our gloom, the sun of Righteousness still shines a beacon and a hope. If we bend down our eyes, the dark vale shows her mouldy soil; but if we lift them, the bright sun meets our glance half way, to cheer."

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper
October 21, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 416

Title: "The firm tower, that is Ahab; the volcano, that is Ahab; the courageous, the undaunted, and victorious fowl, that, too, is Ahab; all are Ahab; and this round gold is but the image of the rounder globe, which, like a magician's glass, to each and every man in turn but mirrors back his own mysterious self."

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, charcoal, colored pencil and ink on found paper
October 21, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 415

Title: But one morning, turning to pass the doubloon, he seemed to be newly attracted by the strange figures and inscriptions stamped on it, as though now for the first time beginning to interpret for himself in some monomaniac way whatever significance might lurk in them.

8.5 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint, ink and pencil on found paper
October 19, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 154 (re-drawn)

(For various reasons, a handful of these illustrations needed to be redrawn. These are the new versions.)

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?"

acrylic paint and ink on found paper
6 inches by 8 inches
October 1, 2010


(original version below)

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