MOBY-DICK, page 196

Title: First: I have personally known three instances where a whale, after receiving a harpoon, has effected a complete escape; and, after an interval (in one instance of three years), has been again struck by the same hand, and slain; when the two irons, both marked by the same private cypher, have been taken from the body.

7.75 x 11 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
March 11, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 195

Title: Therefore, the tormented spirit that glared out of bodily eyes, when what seemed Ahab rushed from his room, was for the time but a vacated thing, a formless somnambulistic being, a ray of living light, to be sure, but without an object to color, and therefore a blankness in itself.

10.75 x 7.5 inches
crayon and ink on found paper
March 10, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 194

Title: ...a chasm seemed opening in him, from which forked flames and lightnings shot up, and accursed fiends beckoned him to leap down among them...

10.75 x 8 inches
ink and marker on found paper
March 9, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 193

Title: ...there the waves were storied with his deeds...

8.5 x 10.75 inches
ink on found paper
March 8, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 192

Title: Besides, when making a passage from one feeding-ground to another, the Sperm Whales, guided by some infallible instinct—say, rather, secret intelligence from the Deity—mostly swim in veins, as they are called; continuing their way along a given ocean-line with such undeviating exactitude, that no ship ever sailed her course, by any chart, with one tithe of such marvellous precision.

11 x 7.5 inches
ink and marker on found paper
March 7, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 191

Title: ...Ahab was threading a maze of currents and eddies, with a view to the more certain accomplishment of that monomaniac thought of his soul.

8.25 x 11 inches
ink and marker on found paper
March 7, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 190

Title: While thus employed, the heavy pewter lamp suspended in chains over his head, continually rocked with the motion of the ship, and for ever threw shifting gleams and shadows of lines upon his wrinkled brow...

11.25 x 6.75 inches
ink and marker on found paper
March 6, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 189

Title: And of all these things the Albino Whale was the symbol.

8.5 x 7 inches
ink on Bristol board
March 6, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 188

Title: ...a colorless, all-color of atheism from which we shrink?

9 x 8 inches
acrylic pain on found paper
March 5, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 187

Title: Not so the sailor, beholding the scenery of the Antarctic seas; where at times, by some infernal trick of legerdemain in the powers of frost and air, he, shivering and half shipwrecked, instead of rainbows speaking hope and solace to his misery, views what seems a boundless church-yard grinning upon him with its lean ice monuments and splintered crosses.

11 x 8.5 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
March 5, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 186

Title: Or why, irrespective of all latitudes and longitudes, does the name of the White Sea exert such a spectralness over the fancy...

8 x 10 inches
ink and marker on watercolor paper
April 8, 2011

(This is the second version of this illustration, and was re-drawn much later. I will post the first version, along with the other alternate versions I did for other pages, after I finish posting all 552 of the Moby-Dick illustrations that were published in my book Moby-Dick in Pictures.)