MOBY-DICK, Page 523

Title: "There she blows! - there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!"

15.5 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
January 2, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 522

Title: "Aye, toil we how we may, we all sleep at last on the field."

7.5 inches by 9 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
December 31, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 521

Title: "Is Ahab, Ahab?"

7 inches by 8.5 inches
ink on Bristol board
December 31, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 520

Title: "...forty years on the pitiless sea! for forty years has Ahab forsaken the peaceful land, for forty years to make war on the horrors of the deep!"

8.25 inches by 12 inches
acrylic paint on watercolor paper
December 31, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 519

Title: From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop.

6 inches by 10 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
December 31, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 518

Title: Hither, and thither, on high, glided the snow-white wings of small, unspeckled birds; these were the gentle thoughts of the feminine air; but to and fro in the deeps, far down in the bottomless blue, rushed mighty leviathans, sword-fish, and sharks; and these were the strong, troubled, murderous thinkings of the masculine sea.

8.25 inches by 8.25 inches
ink on watercolor paper
December 30, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 517

Title: ...and another ship, most miserably misnamed the Delight, was descried.

10.75 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint, ballpoint pen and ink on found paper
December 30, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 516

Title: ...one of those red-billed savage sea-hawks which so often fly incommodiously close round the manned mast-heads of whalemen in these latitudes; one of these birds came wheeling and screaming round his head in a maze of untrackably swift circlings.

8 inches by 8 inches
ink and marker on found paper
December 29, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 515

Title: ...Ahab gazed abroad upon the sea for miles and miles, - ahead, astern, this side, and that, - within the wide expanded circle commanded at so great a height.

15.5 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, charcoal and ink on found paper
December 29, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 514

Title: ...Ahab seemed an independent lord; the Parsee but his slave. Still again both seemed yoked together...

8.25 inches by 12 inches
colored pencil and ink on watercolor paper
December 28, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 513

Title: As the unsetting polar star, which through the livelong, arctic, six months' night sustains its piercing, steady, central gaze; so Ahab's purpose now fixedly gleamed down upon the constant midnight of the gloomy crew.

8 inches by 11.5 inches
ink on found paper
December 28, 2010