MOBY-DICK, Page 543

Title: Their hands met; their eyes fastened; Starbuck's tears the glue.

"Oh, my captain, my captain! - noble heart - go not - go not! - see, it's a brave man that weeps; how great the agony of the persuasion then!"

6.25 inches by 10 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
January 17, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 494

Title: "A touch, and Starbuck may survive to hug his wife and child again. - Oh Mary! Mary! - boy! boy! boy! - But if I wake thee not to death, old man, who can tell to what unsounded deeps Starbuck's body this day week may sink, with all the crew! Great God, where art thou? Shall I? shall I?"

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
December 16, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 158 (re-drawn)

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

Title: "God keep me! — keep us all!" murmured Starbuck, lowly.

9.5 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper
October 31, 2010


(original version below)

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 295

Title: Now as the blubber envelopes the whale precisely as the rind does an orange, so is it stripped off from the body precisely as an orange is sometimes stripped by spiralizing it. For the strain constantly kept up by the windlass continually keeps the whale rolling over and over in the water, and as the blubber in one strip uniformly peels off along the line called the "scarf," simultaneously cut by the spades of Starbuck and Stubb, the mates; and just as fast as it is thus peeled off, and indeed by that very act itself, it is all the time being hoisted higher and higher aloft till its upper end grazes the main-top...

7.5 inches by 10.5 inches
acrylic paint, ballpoint pen and ink on found paper
July 1, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 158

Title: "God keep me! — keep us all!" murmured Starbuck, lowly.

9.5 inches by 7.5 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
February 10, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 116

Title: But it was especially the aspect of the three chief officers of the ship, the mates, which was most forcibly calculated to allay these colorless misgivings, and induce confidence and cheerfulness in every presentment of the voyage.

9 inches by 6.25 inches
ink on found paper
December 28, 2009

MOBY-DICK, Page 108

Title: The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a Quaker by descent. He was a long, earnest man...

8.5 inches by 10 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper
December 17, 2009