MOBY-DICK, Page 470

Title: At last the shank, in one complete rod, received its final heat; and as Perth, to temper it, plunged it all hissing into the cask of water near by, the scalding steam shot up into Ahab's bent face.

6.25 inches by 9.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 30, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 469

Title: "...look ye here - here - can ye smoothe out a seam like this, blacksmith", sweeping one hand across his ribbed brows; "if thou could'st, blacksmith, glad enough would I lay my head upon thy anvil, and feel thy heaviest hammer between my eyes. Answer! Can'st thou smoothe this seam?"

6.25 inches by 9 inches
ink on found paper
November 29, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 468

Title: Hearkening to these voices, East and West, by early sun-rise, and by fall of eve, the blacksmith's soul responded, Aye, I come! And so Perth went a-whaling.

7 inches by 8.5 inches
acrylic paint, charcoal and ink on found paper
November 28, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 467

Title: It was the Bottle Conjuror! Upon the opening of that fatal cork, forth flew the fiend, and shrivelled up his home.

7 inches by 8.5 inches
ink on Bristol board
November 28, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 466

Title: Availing himself of the mild, summer-cool weather that now reigned in these latitudes, and in preparation for the peculiarly active pursuits shortly to be anticipated, Perth, the begrimed, blistered old blacksmith, had not removed his portable forge to the hold again, after concluding his contributory work for Ahab's leg, but still retained it on deck, fast lashed to ringbolts by the foremast...

8.25 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint, charcoal, colored pencil and ink on found paper
November 27, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 465

Title: His firm lips met like the lips of a vice; the Delta of his forehead's veins swelled like overladen brooks; in his very sleep, his ringing cry ran through the vaulted hull, Stern all! the White Whale spouts thick blood!

7.25 inches by 10.25 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 27, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 464

Title: So, in good time my Queequeg gained strength; and at length after sitting on the windlass for a few indolent days (but eating with a vigorous appetite) he suddenly leaped to his feet, threw out arms and legs, gave himself a good stretching, yawned a little bit, and then springing into the head of his hoisted boat, and poising a harpoon, pronounced himself fit for a fight.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, colored pencil and ink on found paper
November 26, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 463

Title: "... but base little Pip, he died a coward; died all a'shiver; — out upon Pip! Hark ye; if ye find Pip, tell all the Antilles he's a runaway; a coward, a coward, a coward! Tell them he jumped from a whale-boat! I'd never beat my tambourine over base Pip, and hail him General, if he were once more dying here. No, no! shame upon all cowards — shame upon them! Let 'em go drown like Pip, that jumped from a whale-boat. Shame! shame!"

6 inches by 9 inches
ink on watercolor paper
November 26, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 462

Title: ... there lay Queequeg in his coffin with little but his composed countenance in view. Rarmai (it will do; it is easy), he murmured at last...

8 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 25, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 461

Title: ... for not only do they believe that the stars are isles, but that far beyond all visible horizons, their own mild, uncontinented seas, interflow with the blue heavens; and so form the white breakers of the Milky Way.

7.5 inches by 9.5 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 25, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 460

Title: But as all else in him thinned, and his cheek-bones grew sharper, his eyes, nevertheless, seemed growing fuller and fuller; they became of a strange softness of lustre; and mildly but deeply looked out at you there from his sickness, a wondrous testimony to that immortal health in him which could not die, or be weakened. And like circles on the water, which, as they grow fainter, expand; so his eyes seemed rounding and rounding, like the rings of Eternity.

10.75 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 23, 2010