Wednesday, March 31, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 210

Title: ...a fourth keel, coming from the windward side, pulled round under the stern, and showed the five strangers rowing Ahab...

8 inches by 5 inches
ink on found paper
March 23, 2010

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 209

Title: The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips. A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff. But strangely crowning his ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.

7.5 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, charcoal, colored pencil, crayon and ink on found paper
March 22, 2010

Monday, March 29, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 208

Title: High aloft in the cross-trees was that mad Gay-Header, Tashtego. His body was reaching eagerly forward, his hand stretched out like a wand, and at brief sudden intervals he continued his cries.

7.5 inches by 10.5 inches
ink and marker on found paper
March 22, 2010

Sunday, March 28, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 207

Title: Thus we were weaving and weaving away when I started at a sound so strange, long drawn, and musically wild and unearthly, that the ball of free will dropped from my hand, and I stood gazing up at the clouds...

8.5 inches by 11 inches
ink on found paper
March 21, 2010

Saturday, March 27, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 206

Title: That protection could only consist in his own predominating brain and heart and hand...

6.75 inches by 8.5 inches
colored pencil and ink on found paper
March 20, 2010

Friday, March 26, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 205

Title: ...for few men's courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action...

7.5 inches by 10.5 inches
ink on found paper
March 20, 2010

Thursday, March 25, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 204

Title: To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools...

7.5 inches by 10.5 inches
ink on found paper
March 20, 2010

Wednesday, March 24, 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

Monday, March 22, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 202

Title: ...upon being attacked he will frequently open his mouth, and retain it in that dread expansion for several consecutive minutes.

7 inches by 4.25 inches
ink on found paper
March 18, 2010

Sunday, March 21, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 201

Title: An uncommon large whale, the body of which was larger than the ship itself, lay almost at the surface of the water, but was not perceived by any one on board till the moment when the ship, which was in full sail, was almost upon him...

7.5 inches by 10.5 inches
colored pencil and ink on found paper
March 16, 2010

Saturday, March 20, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 200

Title: I tell you, the Sperm Whale will stand no nonsense.

7.5 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, colored pencil and ink on found paper
March 15, 2010