MOBY-DICK, Page 511

Title: "They tell me, Sir, that Stubb did once desert poor little Pip, whose drowned bones now show white, for all the blackness of his living skin..."

7.75 inches by 10.25 inches
ink and marker on found paper
December 27, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 501

Title: "Come! I feel prouder leading thee by thy black hand, than though I grasped an Emperor's!"

8 inches by 12 inches
acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper
December 21, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 501 (first, unused version)

(Another page where I had two ideas, so I made them both. This was the first one and it is a very intentional mirroring of the piece I did for page 26 way back in Augist of 2009.)

Title: "Come! I feel prouder leading thee by thy black hand, than though I grasped an Emperor's!"

6 inches by 9 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
December 20, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 500

Title: "Oh, ye frozen heavens! look down here. Ye did beget this luckless child, and have abandoned him, ye creative libertines. Here, boy; Ahab's cabin shall be Pip's home henceforth, while Ahab lives. Thou touchest my inmost centre, boy; thou art tied to me by cords woven of my heart-strings. Come, let's down."

8 inches by 11.75 inches
ink on watercolor paper
December 19, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 463

Title: "... but base little Pip, he died a coward; died all a'shiver; — out upon Pip! Hark ye; if ye find Pip, tell all the Antilles he's a runaway; a coward, a coward, a coward! Tell them he jumped from a whale-boat! I'd never beat my tambourine over base Pip, and hail him General, if he were once more dying here. No, no! shame upon all cowards — shame upon them! Let 'em go drown like Pip, that jumped from a whale-boat. Shame! shame!"

6 inches by 9 inches
ink on watercolor paper
November 26, 2010

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 402

Title: Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs.

9.5 inches by 6 inches
ink on paper
October 10, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 401

Title: The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.

7.25 inches by 10.25 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
October 9, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 398

Title: It was but some few days after encountering the Frenchman, that a most significant event befell the most insignificant of the Pequod's crew; an event most lamentable; and which ended in providing the sometimes madly merry and predestinated craft with a living and ever accompanying prophecy of whatever shattered sequel might prove her own.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
ink and marker on found paper
October 3, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 170

Title: Jollies? Lord help such jollies! Crish, crash! there goes the jib-stay! Blang-whang! God!

4.25 inches by 7 inches
ink and marker on found paper
February 21, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 166

Title: Go it, Pip! Bang it, bell-boy! Rig it, dig it, stig it, quig it, bell-boy; Make fire-flies; break the jinglers!

7 inches by 9.5 inches
ink and marker on found paper
February 16, 2010