Sunday, January 31, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 147

Title: Of modern standers-of-mast-heads we have but a lifeless set; mere stone, iron, and bronze men...

8 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
January 31, 2010

Saturday, January 30, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 146

Title: ... so, in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab's soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom!

8.5 inches by 10.5 inches
ink on found paper
January 30, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 145

Title: But, doubtless, this noble savage fed strong and drank deep of the abounding element of air...

8 inches by 5 inches
colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper
January 30, 2010

Friday, January 29, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 144

Title: ...while Tashtego, knife in hand, began laying out the circle preliminary to scalping him.

8 inches by 11 inches
colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper
January 29, 2010

Thursday, January 28, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 143

Title: For what he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal in him.

5 inches by 8 inches
ballpoint pen and ink on found paper
January 28, 2010

Monday, January 25, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 142

Title: With one mind, their intent eyes all fastened upon the old man's knife, as he carved the chief dish before him.

6 inches by 7.5 inches
ink on found paper
January 25, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 141

Title: It is noon; and Dough-Boy, the steward, thrusting his pale loaf-of-bread face from the cabin-scuttle, announces dinner to his lord and master...

9 inches by 11 inches
ink on found paper
January 24, 2010

Saturday, January 23, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 140

Title: That certain sultanism of his brain...

8 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint, colored pencil and ink on found paper
January 23, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 139

Title: ...night watches on a whaling ground...

8 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
January 23, 2010

Friday, January 22, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 138

Title: ...two centuries and more ago, the command of a whale ship was not wholly lodged in the person now called the captain, but was divided between him and an officer called the Specksynder. Literally this word means Fat-Cutter...

8.25 inches by 11.5 inches
acrylic paint, crayon and ink on found paper
January 22, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 137

Title: BOOK III. (Duodecimo), Chapter III. (Mealy-mouthed Porpoise).

7.75 inches by 7 inches
colored pencil and ink on found paper
January 22, 2010