MOBY-DICK, Page 492

Title: ...like the feathers of an albatross, which sometimes are cast to the winds when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
ink on found paper
December 13, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 491

Title: "Um, um, um. Stop that thunder! Plenty too much thunder up here. What's the use of thunder? Um, um, um. We don't want thunder; we want rum; give us a glass of rum. Um, um, um!"

8 inches by 5.5 inches
colored pencil on found paper
December 12, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 490

Title: "...when a fellow's soaked through, it's hard to be sensible, that's a fact."

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
ink on found paper
December 12, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 489

Title: "Didn't you once say that whatever ship Ahab sails in, that ship should pay something extra on its insurance policy, just as though it were loaded with powder barrels aft and boxes of lucifers forward?"

10.5 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint, ballpoint pen and ink on found paper
December 11, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 488

Title: But dashing the rattling lightning links to the deck, and snatching the burning harpoon, Ahab waved it like a torch among them; swearing to transfix with it the first sailor that but cast loose a rope's end. Petrified by his aspect, and still more shrinking from the fiery dart that he held, the men fell back in dismay, and Ahab again spoke:—

"All your oaths to hunt the White Whale are as binding as mine; and heart, soul, and body, lungs and life, old Ahab is bound."

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
ink and marker on found paper
December 11, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 487

Title: ...from the keen steel barb there now came a levelled flame of pale, forked fire.

7 inches by 8.5 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
December 10, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 486

Title: "Aye, aye, men!" cried Ahab. "Look up at it; mark it well; the white flame but lights the way to the White Whale!"

15.5 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, ballpoint pen and ink on found paper
December 9, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 485

Title: ...while lit up by the preternatural light, Queequeg's tattooing burned like Satanic blue flames on his body.

10.75 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
December 9, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 484

Title: "Look aloft!" cried Starbuck. "The St. Elmo's Lights (corpus sancti) corpusants! the corpusants!"

All the yard-arms were tipped with a pallid fire; and touched at each tri-pointed lightning-rod-end with three tapering white flames, each of the three tall masts was silently burning in that sulphurous air, like three gigantic wax tapers before an altar.

7.5 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint and ballpoint pen on found paper
December 8, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 483

Title: "But I am not a brave man; never said I was a brave man; I am a coward..."

8.5 inches by 7 inches
acrylic paint, colored pencil, ink and pencil on found paper
December 8, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 482

Title: So, too, it is, that in these resplendent Japanese seas the mariner encounters the direst of all storms, the Typhoon. It will sometimes burst from out that cloudless sky, like an exploding bomb upon a dazed and sleepy town.

8.25 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
December 8, 2010