MOBY-DICK, page 514

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

12 x 8.25 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.

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

MOBY-DICK, page 512

Title: Ahab, - all other whaling waters swept - seemed to have chased his foe into an ocean-fold, to slay him the more securely there...

10 x 6.75 inches
ink on watercolor paper
December 27, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 511

Title: "They tell me, Sir, that Stubb did once desert poor little Pip, whose drowned bones now show white, for all the blackness of his living skin..."

10.25 x 7.75 inches
ink and marker on found paper
December 27, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 510

Title: ...then in a voice that prolongingly moulded every word - "Captain Gardiner, I will not do it. Even now I lose time. Good bye, good bye."

15.5 x 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, charcoal and ink on found paper
December 26, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 509

Title: "My boy, my own boy is among them. For God's sake - I beg, I conjure" - here exclaimed the stranger Captain to Ahab, who thus far had but icily received his petition. "For eight-and-forty hours let me charter your ship - I will gladly pay for it, and roundly pay for it - if there be no other way - for eight-and-forty hours only - only that - you must, oh, you must, and you shall do this thing."

8.5 x 7 inches
ink and marker on Bristol board
December 26, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 508

Title: ...and while they were yet in swift chase to windward, the white hump and head of Moby Dick had suddenly loomed up out of the blue water, not very far to leeward...

15.5 x 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, charcoal and ink on found paper
December 25, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 507

Title: Next day, a large ship, the Rachel, was descried, bearing directly down upon the Pequod, all her spars thickly clustering with men.

7.75 x 10.75 inches
ballpoint pen on found paper
December 25, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 506

Title: "Seems to me some sort of Equator cuts yon old man, too, right in his middle. He's always under the Line - fiery hot, I tell ye!"

10.75 x 15.5 inches
acrylic paint, ballpoint pen, charcoal and colored pencil on found paper
December 24, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 505

Title: "Then tell me; art thou not an arrant, all-grasping, inter-meddling, monopolizing, heathenish old scamp, to be one day making legs, and the next day coffins to clap them in, and yet again life-buoys out of those same coffins? Thou art as unprincipled as the gods, and as much of a jack-of-all-trades."

11 x 8.25 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
December 23, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 504

Title: "I'll have me - let's see - how many in the ship's company, all told? But I've forgotten. Any way, I'll have me thirty separate, Turk's-headed life-lines, each three feet long hanging all round to the coffin. Then, if the hull go down, there'll be thirty lively fellows all fighting for one coffin, a sight not seen very often beneath the sun!"

9 x 7.5 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
December 23, 2010