MOBY-DICK, Page 178

Title: Ahab's full lunacy subsided not, but deepeningly contracted...

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
ballpoint pen and ink on found paper
February 28, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 177

Title: All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.

7.75 inches by 11 inches
ink on found paper
February 28, 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 175

Title: ...it cannot be much matter of surprise that some whalemen should go still further in their superstitions; declaring Moby Dick not only ubiquitous, but immortal (for immortality is but ubiquity in time)...

7.75 inches and 11 inches
colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper
February 25, 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

MOBY-DICK, Page 172

Title: ...a Sperm Whale of uncommon magnitude and malignity, which whale, after doing great mischief to his assailants, had completely escaped them...

7.75 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint, ballpoint pen and ink on found paper
February 22, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 171

Title: I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the rest; my oath had been welded with theirs; and stronger I shouted, and more did I hammer and clinch my oath, because of the dread in my soul.

5 inches by 8 inches
colored pencil and ink on found paper
February 21, 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 169

Title: Our captain has his birth-mark; look yonder, boys, there's another in the sky — lurid-like, ye see, all else pitch black.

10.75 inches by 7.5 inches
ink and marker on found paper
February 21, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 168

Title: Hail, holy nakedness of our dancing girls!

8.5 inches by 11 inches
collage on chipboard and found paper
February 19, 2010