MOBY-DICK, Page 329

Title: ...the whale's vast plaited forehead forms innumerable strange devices for the emblematical adornment of his wondrous tun.

3 inches by 5 inches
ballpoint pen on found paper
July 30, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 328

Title: Now, mark. Unerringly impelling this dead, impregnable, uninjurable wall, and this most buoyant thing within; there swims behind it all a mass of tremendous life...

22 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, colored pencil, ink and pencil on found paper
July 30, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 327

Title: Wherefore, you must now have perceived that the front of the Sperm Whale's head is a dead, blind wall, without a single organ or tender prominence of any sort whatsoever.

6 inches by 8.5 inches
colored pencil, crayon, ink and marker on found paper
July 29, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 325

Title: Ere this, you must have plainly seen the truth of what I started with — that the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale have almost entirely different heads.

6.25 inches by 9 inches
ink on found paper
July 27, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 324

Title: ...in which case you will take great interest in thinking how this mighty monster is actually a diademed king of the sea, whose green crown has been put together for him in this marvellous manner.

9 inches by 12 inches
ink and marker on construction paper
July 25, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 323

Title: Crossing the deck, let us now have a good long look at the Right Whale's head.

11 inches by 8.5 inches
ink and pencil on found paper
July 25, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 322

Title: But far more terrible is it to behold, when fathoms down in the sea, you see some sulky whale, floating there suspended, with his prodigious jaw, some fifteen feet long, hanging straight down at right-angles with his body, for all the world like a ship's jib-boom.

9 inches by 12 inches
ink on construction paper
July 24, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 321

Title: But if you now come to separate these two objects, and surround each by a circle of profound darkness; then, in order to see one of them, in such a manner as to bring your mind to bear on it, the other will be utterly excluded from your contemporary consciousness.

10.75 inches by 7.75 inches
ink, marker and pencil on found paper
July 23, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 320

Title: Far back on the side of the head, and low down, near the angle of either whale's jaw, if you narrowly search, you will at last see a lashless eye, which you would fancy to be a young colt's eye; so out of all proportion is it to the magnitude of the head.

11 inches by 8.5 inches
ink on paper
July 23, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 319

Title: There is more character in the Sperm Whale's head.

6 inches by 8 inches
ink on found paper
July 22, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 318

Title: And Ahab chanced so to stand, that the Parsee occupied his shadow; while, if the Parsee's shadow was there at all it seemed only to blend with, and lengthen Ahab's.

10.25 inches by 7.25 inches
ink on found paper
July 21, 2010