MOBY-DICK, Page 185 (re-drawn)

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

Title: Therefore, in his other moods, symbolize whatever grand or gracious thing he will by whiteness, no man can deny that in its profoundest idealized significance it calls up a peculiar apparition to the soul.

ink on Bristol board
7 inches by 8.5 inches
October 1, 2010


(original version below)

MOBY-DICK, Page 189

Title: And of all these things the Albino Whale was the symbol.

7 inches by 8.5 inches
ink on Bristol board
March 6, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 188

Title: ...a colorless, all-color of atheism from which we shrink?

8 inches by 9 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
March 5, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 187

Title: Not so the sailor, beholding the scenery of the Antarctic seas; where at times, by some infernal trick of legerdemain in the powers of frost and air, he, shivering and half shipwrecked, instead of rainbows speaking hope and solace to his misery, views what seems a boundless church-yard grinning upon him with its lean ice monuments and splintered crosses.

8.5 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
March 5, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 186

Title: Or why, irrespective of all latitudes and longitudes, does the name of the White Sea exert such a spectralness over the fancy...

11 inches by 15.5 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
March 5, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 185

Title: Therefore, in his other moods, symbolize whatever grand or gracious thing he will by whiteness, no man can deny that in its profoundest idealized significance it calls up a peculiar apparition to the soul.

8.25 inches by 11 inches
ink on found paper
March 5, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 184

Title: What is it that in the Albino man so peculiarly repels and often shocks the eye, as that sometimes he is loathed by his own kith and kin!

8 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
March 5, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 183

Title: I remember the first albatross I ever saw.

7.5 inches by 10.75 inches
ink on found paper
March 3, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 182

Title: ...yet for all these accumulated associations, with whatever is sweet, and honorable, and sublime, there yet lurks an elusive something in the innermost idea of this hue, which strikes more of panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood.

7.25 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
March 2, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 181

Title: It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me.

7.5 inches by 10.75 inches
colored pencil on found paper
March 2, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 176

Title: The rest of his body was so streaked, and spotted, and marbled with the same shrouded hue, that, in the end, he had gained his distinctive appellation of the White Whale; a name, indeed, literally justified by his vivid aspect, when seen gliding at high noon through a dark blue sea, leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam, all spangled with golden gleamings.

10 inches by 6 inches
ink on found paper
February 27, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 174

Title: One of the wild suggestings referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time.

7.75 inches by 11 inches
ink on found paper
February 25, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 173

Title: No wonder, then, that ever gathering volume from the mere transit over the widest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale did in the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid hints, and half-formed foetal suggestions of supernatural agencies, which eventually invested Moby Dick with new terrors unborrowed from anything that visibly appears.

11 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint, ballpoint pen, ink and pencil on found paper
February 23, 2010