MOBY-DICK, Page 481

Title: ...these passed over the mute, motionless Parsee's face. Unobserved he rose and glided away...

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
December 7, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 480

Title: The sky looks lacquered; clouds there are none; the horizon floats; and this nakedness of unrelieved radiance is as the insufferable splendors of God's throne.

10.75 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
December 6, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 479

Title: "Take another pledge, old man," said the Parsee, as his eyes lighted up like fire-flies in the gloom...

7 inches by 8.5 inches
acrylic paint and ink on Bristol board
December 5, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 478

Title: The waif-pole was thrust upright into the dead whale's spout-hole; and the lantern hanging from its top, cast a troubled flickering glare upon the black, glossy back, and far out upon the midnight waves, which gently chafed the whale's broad flank, like soft surf upon a beach.

10.75 inches by 7.75 inches
ink on found paper
December 5, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 477

Title: For that strange spectacle observable in all sperm whales dying - the turning sunwards of the head, and so expiring - that strange spectacle, beheld of such a placid evening, somehow to Ahab conveyed a wondrousness unknown before.

7.25 inches by 9 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper
December 4, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 476

Title: It was far down the afternoon; and when all the spearings of the crimson fight were done: and floating in the lovely sunset sea and sky, sun and whale both stilly died together...

10.25 inches by 7.25 inches
ink and marker on found paper
December 4, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 475

Title: On the quarter-deck, the mates and harpooneers were dancing with the olive-hued girls who had eloped with them from the Polynesian Isles...

8.25 inches by 11 inches
charcoal and ink on wallpaper sample
December 4, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 474

Title: It was a Nantucket ship, the Bachelor, which had just wedged in her last cask of oil, and bolted down her bursting hatches; and now, in glad holiday apparel, was joyously, though somewhat vain-gloriously, sailing round among the widely-separated ships on the ground, previous to pointing her prow for home. The three men at her mast-head wore long streamers of narrow red bunting at their hats; from the stern, a whale-boat was suspended, bottom down; and hanging captive from the bowsprit was seen the long lower jaw of the last whale they had slain. Signals, ensigns, and jacks of all colors were flying from her rigging, on every side.

10.75 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint, ballpoint pen, ink and marker on found paper
December 2, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 473

Title: ...Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.

7.5 inches by 9 inches
acryclic paint and ink on found paper
December 2, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 472

Title: At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hearth-stone cats they purr against the gunwale; these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.

7.25 inches by 10.25 inches
ink and marker on found paper
December 1, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 471

Title: "Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!" deliriously howled Ahab, as the malignant iron scorchingly devoured the baptismal blood.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
November 30, 2010