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

MOBY-DICK, Page 435

Title: Now, amid the green, life-restless loom of that Arsacidean wood, the great, white, worshipped skeleton lay lounging—a gigantic idler! Yet, as the ever-woven verdant warp and woof intermixed and hummed around him, the mighty idler seemed the cunning weaver; himself all woven over with the vines; every month assuming greener, fresher verdure; but himself a skeleton. Life folded Death; Death trellised Life...

6 inches by 9 inches
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November 5, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 434

Title: ...in the skull, the priests kept up an unextinguished aromatic flame, so that the mystic head again sent forth its vapory spout...

8.5 inches by 7 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 4, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 389

Title: Presently, the vapors in advance slid aside; and there in the distance lay a ship, whose furled sails betokened that some sort of whale must be alongside. As we glided nearer, the stranger showed French colors from his peak; and by the eddying cloud of vulture sea-fowl that circled, and hovered, and swooped around him, it was plain that the whale alongside must be what the fishermen call a blasted whale, that is, a whale that has died unmolested on the sea, and so floated an unappropriated corpse.

10.75 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper
September 27, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 338

Title: If you unload his skull of its spermy heaps ...

11 inches by 8 inches
acrylic paint and charcoal on found paper
August 6, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 203

Title: I am told, on good authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found the skeleton of a Sperm Whale.

10.5 inches by 8.5 inches
acrylic paint, charcoal, colored pencil, crayon and ink on found paper
March 19, 2010