MOBY-DICK, Page 534

Title: ...Moby Dick bodily burst into view! For not by any calm and indolent spoutings; not by the peaceable gush of that mystic fountain in his head, did the White Whale now reveal his vicinity; but by the far more wondrous phenomenon of breaching. Rising with his utmost velocity from the furthest depths, the Sperm Whale thus booms his entire bulk into the pure element of air, and piling up a mountain of dazzling foam, shows his place to the distance of seven miles and more. In those moments, the torn, enraged waves he shakes off, seem his mane; in some cases, this breaching is his act of defiance.

8.25 inches by 12 inches
ink on watercolor paper
January 11, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 533

Title: "Aye, aye!" cried Stubb. "I knew it - ye can't escape - blow on and split your spout, O whale! the mad fiend himself is after ye! blow your trump - blister your lungs! - Ahab will dam off your blood, as a miller shuts his water-gate upon the stream!"

10 inches by 6.25 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
January 10, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 532

Title: "Turn up all hands and make sail! he travels faster than I thought for..."

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
colored pencil on found paper
January 8, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 531

Title: "Men, this gold is mine, for I earned it..."

6 inches by 9.25 inches
colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper
January 8, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 530

Title: ...thus to and fro pacing, beneath his slouched hat, at every turn he passed his own wrecked boat, which had been dropped upon the quarter-deck, and lay there reversed; broken bow to shattered stern. At last he paused before it; and as in an already over-clouded sky fresh troops of clouds will sometimes sail across, so over the old man's face there now stole some such added gloom as this.

6.25 inches by 10 inches
ink on found paper
January 7, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 529

Title: In an instant's compass, great hearts sometimes condense to one deep pang, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly diffused through feebler men's whole lives.

10 inches by 6.25 inches
ink and marker on found paper
January 7, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 528

Title: For so revolvingly appalling was the White Whale's aspect, and so planetarily swift the ever-contracting circles he made, that he seemed horizontally swooping upon them.

8.25 inches by 12 inches
ink on watercolor paper
January 7, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 527

Title: ...then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe.

8.5 inches by 7 inches
charcoal and pencil on found paper
January 4, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 526

Title: Through and through; through every plank and each rib, it thrilled for an instant, the whale obliquely lying on his back, in the manner of a biting shark, slowly and feelingly taking its bows full within his mouth, so that the long, narrow, scrolled lower jaw curled high up into the open air...

6 inches by 9 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
January 3, 2011

MOBY-DICK, Page 525

Title: But soon the fore part of him slowly rose from the water; for an instant his whole marbleized body formed a high arch, like Virginia's Natural Bridge, and warningly waving his bannered flukes in the air, the grand god revealed himself, sounded, and went out of sight.

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

MOBY-DICK, Page 524

Title: As they neared him, the ocean grew still more smooth; seemed drawing a carpet over its waves; seemed a noon-meadow, so serenely it spread. At length the breathless hunter came so nigh his seemingly unsuspecting prey, that his entire dazzling hump was distinctly visible, sliding along the sea as if an isolated thing...

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