MOBY-DICK, Page 455

Title: Well, well, well! Stubb knows him best of all, and Stubb always says he's queer; says nothing but that one sufficient little word queer; he's queer, says Stubb; he's queer — queer, queer; and keeps dinning it into Mr. Starbuck all the time — queer, Sir—queer, queer, very queer.

7.5 inches by 9.5 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 20, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 454

Title: Hold; while Prometheus is about it, I'll order a complete man after a desirable pattern. Imprimis, fifty feet high in his socks; then, chest modelled after the Thames Tunnel; then, legs with roots to 'em, to stay in one place; then, arms three feet through the wrist; no heart at all, brass forehead, and about a quarter of an acre of fine brains; and let me see—shall I order eyes to see outwards? No, but put a sky-light on top of his head to illuminate inwards. There, take the order, and away.

5.75 inches by 7.75 inches
ink and marker on found paper
November 19, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 453

Title: ...for what's made in fire must properly belong to fire...

15.5 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 18, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 452

Title: Yet, as previously hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut carpenter, was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton. If he did not have a common soul in him, he had a subtle something that somehow anomalously did its duty.

8.5 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 16, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 451

Title: For nothing was this man more remarkable, than for a certain impersonal stolidity as it were; impersonal, I say; for it so shaded off into the surrounding infinite of things, that it seemed one with the general stolidity discernible in the whole visible world...

8.5 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 16, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 450

Title: But most humble though he was, and far from furnishing an example of the high, humane abstraction; the Pequod's carpenter was no duplicate; hence, he now comes in person on this stage.

8.5 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint, ink, pencil and marker on found paper
November 15, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 449

Title: ... take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
ink and marker on found paper
November 14, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 448

Title: With many other particulars concerning Ahab, always had it remained a mystery to some, why it was, that for a certain period, both before and after the sailing of the Pequod, he had hidden himself away with such Grand-Lama-like exclusiveness; and, for that one interval, sought speechless refuge, as it were, among the marble senate of the dead.

6 inches by 9 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
November 14, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 447

Title: ... and if ever the world is to be again flooded, like the Netherlands, to kill off its rats, then the eternal whale will still survive, and rearing upon the topmost crest of the equatorial flood, spout his frothed defiance to the skies.

10.75 inches by 15.5 inches
acrylic paint, ink and pencil on found paper
November 13, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 446

Title: ... so, hunted from the savannas and glades of the middle seas, the whale-bone whales can at last resort to their Polar citadels, and diving under the ultimate glassy barriers and walls there, come up among icy fields and floes; and in a charmed circle of everlasting December, bid defiance to all pursuit from man.

7 inches by 8.5 inches
ink and marker on Bristol board
November 13, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 445

Title: Forty men in one ship hunting the Sperm Whale for forty-eight months...

11 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint and charcoal on found paper
November 11, 2010