MOBY-DICK, Page 491

Title: "Um, um, um. Stop that thunder! Plenty too much thunder up here. What's the use of thunder? Um, um, um. We don't want thunder; we want rum; give us a glass of rum. Um, um, um!"

8 inches by 5.5 inches
colored pencil on found paper
December 12, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 485

Title: ...while lit up by the preternatural light, Queequeg's tattooing burned like Satanic blue flames on his body.

10.75 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
December 9, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 464

Title: So, in good time my Queequeg gained strength; and at length after sitting on the windlass for a few indolent days (but eating with a vigorous appetite) he suddenly leaped to his feet, threw out arms and legs, gave himself a good stretching, yawned a little bit, and then springing into the head of his hoisted boat, and poising a harpoon, pronounced himself fit for a fight.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, colored pencil and ink on found paper
November 26, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 462

Title: ... there lay Queequeg in his coffin with little but his composed countenance in view. Rarmai (it will do; it is easy), he murmured at last...

8 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 25, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 460

Title: But as all else in him thinned, and his cheek-bones grew sharper, his eyes, nevertheless, seemed growing fuller and fuller; they became of a strange softness of lustre; and mildly but deeply looked out at you there from his sickness, a wondrous testimony to that immortal health in him which could not die, or be weakened. And like circles on the water, which, as they grow fainter, expand; so his eyes seemed rounding and rounding, like the rings of Eternity.

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

MOBY-DICK, Page 459

Title: Now, at this time it was that my poor pagan companion, and fast bosom-friend, Queequeg, was seized with a fever, which brought him nigh to his endless end.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, colored pencil and ink on found paper
November 22, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 445

Title: Forty men in one ship hunting the Sperm Whale for forty-eight months...

11 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint and charcoal on found paper
November 11, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 412

Title: But the whaleman, as he seeks the food of light, so he lives in light.

7.75 inches by 10.25 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
October 17, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 400

Title: Tashtego stood in the bows. He was full of the fire of the hunt.

8 inches by 5.5 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
October 5, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 086 (re-drawn)

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

Title: "Cap'ain, you see him small drop tar on water dere? You see him? well, spose him one whale eye, well, den!" and taking sharp aim at it, he darted the iron right over old Bildad's broad brim, clean across the ship's decks, and struck the glistening tar spot out of sight.

9.25 inches by 6 inches
ink and marker on found paper
September 26, 2010


(Original version below)

MOBY-DICK, Page 344

Title: But no sooner did his harpooneer stand up for the stroke, than all three tigers — Queequeg, Tashtego, Daggoo — instinctively sprang to their feet, and standing in a diagonal row, simultaneously pointed their barbs; and darted over the head of the German harpooneer, their three Nantucket irons entered the whale.

6.5 inches by 5.25 inches
ink on found paper
August 10, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 343

Title: "I say, pull like god-dam," - cried the Indian.

8 inches by 5.5 inches
ink and marker on found paper
August 8, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 333

Title: Now, how had this noble rescue been accomplished? Why, diving after the slowly descending head, Queequeg with his keen sword had made side lunges near its bottom, so as to scuttle a large hole there; then dropping his sword, had thrust his long arm far inwards and upwards, and so hauled out our poor Tash by the head.

5.25 inches by 8.75 inches
colored pencil, ink and marker on watercolor paper
August 3, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 332

Title: But hardly had the blinding vapor cleared away, when a naked figure with a boarding-sword in its hand, was for one swift moment seen hovering over the bulwarks. The next, a loud splash announced that my brave Queequeg had dived to the rescue.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper
August 1, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 331

Title: ...but, on a sudden, as the eightieth or ninetieth bucket came suckingly up — my God! poor Tashtego — like the twin reciprocating bucket in a veritable well, dropped head-foremost down into this great Tun of Heidelburgh, and with a horrible oily gurgling, went clean out of sight!

7.25 inches by 10.25 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper
August 1, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 330

Title: Nimble as a cat, Tashtego mounts aloft; and without altering his erect posture, runs straight out upon the overhanging main-yard-arm, to the part where it exactly projects over the hoisted Tun.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
August 1, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 321

Title: But if you now come to separate these two objects, and surround each by a circle of profound darkness; then, in order to see one of them, in such a manner as to bring your mind to bear on it, the other will be utterly excluded from your contemporary consciousness.

10.75 inches by 7.75 inches
ink, marker and pencil on found paper
July 23, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 311

Title: ...poor Queequeg, I suppose, only prayed to his Yojo, and gave up his life into the hands of his gods.

5 inches by 7.5 inches
colored pencil, ink, marker and white-out on found paper
July 15, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 310

Title: So strongly and metaphysically did I conceive of my situation then, that while earnestly watching his motions, I seemed distinctly to perceive that my own individuality was now merged in a joint stock company of two...

8 inches by 12 inches
colored pencil, ink, marker and watercolor on watercolor paper
July 14, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 309

Title: On the occasion in question, Queequeg figured in the Highland costume—a shirt and socks—in which to my eyes, at least, he appeared to uncommon advantage; and no one had a better chance to observe him, as will presently be seen.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper
July 13, 2010