Wednesday, April 28, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 229

Title: "Swim away from me, do ye?" murmured Ahab, gazing over into the water. There seemed but little in the words, but the tone conveyed more of deep helpless sadness than the insane old man had ever before evinced.

7.25 inches by 10.75 inches
colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper
April 28, 2010

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 228

Title: As if the waves had been fullers, this craft was bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus. All down her sides, this spectral appearance was traced with long channels of reddened rust, while all her spars and her rigging were like the thick branches of trees furred over with hoar-frost.

9.75 inches by 8 inches
ink on found paper
April 27, 2010

Saturday, April 17, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 227

Title: But calm, snow-white, and unvarying; still directing its fountain of feathers to the sky; still beckoning us on from before, the solitary jet would at times be descried.

8.5 inches by 11 inches
ink on found paper, xeroxed and enlarged 4 separate times, treated with white-out (originals and remaining copies destroyed)
April 15, 2010

Friday, April 16, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 226

Title: These temporary apprehensions, so vague but so awful, derived a wondrous potency from the contrasting serenity of the weather, in which, beneath all its blue blandness, some thought there lurked a devilish charm, as for days and days we voyaged along, through seas so wearily, lonesomely mild, that all space, in repugnance to our vengeful errand, seemed vacating itself of life before our urn-like prow.

7.5 inches by 10.5 inches
acrylic paint, colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper
April 15, 2010

Thursday, April 15, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 225

Title: ...every reclining mariner started to his feet as if some winged spirit had lighted in the rigging, and hailed the mortal crew. "There she blows!"

17 inches by 11.5 inches
ink on found paper
April 13, 2010

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 224

Title: Lit up by the moon, it looked celestial; seemed some plumed and glittering god uprising from the sea.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
ink on found paper
April 12, 2010

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 223

Title: ...Beelzebub himself might climb up the side and step down into the cabin to chat with the captain...

10.75 inches by 15.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
April 11, 2010

Monday, April 12, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 222

Title: ...the pursuit of whales is always under great and extraordinary difficulties...

10.75 inches by 15.75 inches
acrylic paint, collage and ink on found paper
April 11, 2010

Sunday, April 11, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 221

Title: I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a clean conscience sitting inside the bars of a snug family vault.

7 inches by 6 inches
ink on found paper
April 9, 2010

Saturday, April 10, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 220

Title: "Mr. Stubb," said I, turning to that worthy, who, buttoned up in his oil-jacket, was now calmly smoking his pipe in the rain...

6.75 inches by 10 inches
acrylic paint, ink and pencil on sketchbook page
April 9, 2010

Friday, April 9, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 219

Title: There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.

15.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, crayon and ink on found paper
April 7, 2010

Thursday, April 8, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 218

Title: Squall, whale, and harpoon had all blended together...

10.75 inches by 15.25 inches
ballpoint pen and ink on found paper
April 6, 2010

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 217

Title: ...with a lightning-like hurtling whisper Starbuck said: "Stand up!" and Queequeg, harpoon in hand, sprang to his feet.

8.5 inches by 10.75 inches
colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper
April 4, 2010

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 216

Title: ...the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two...

7.75 inches by 11 inches
ink and marker on found paper
April 3, 2010

Monday, April 5, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 215

Title: Seen in advance of all the other indications, the puffs of vapor they spouted, seemed their forerunning couriers and detached flying outriders.

7.75 inches by 11 inches
ballpoint pen, ink, marker and spraypaint on found paper
April 2, 2010

Sunday, April 4, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 214

Title: But the sight of little Flask mounted upon gigantic Daggoo was yet more curious; for sustaining himself with a cool, indifferent, easy, unthought of, barbaric majesty, the noble negro to every roll of the sea harmoniously rolled his fine form. On his broad back, flaxen-haired Flask seemed a snow-flake. The bearer looked nobler than the rider.

8.5 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper
April 2, 2010

Saturday, April 3, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 213

Title: The whales had irregularly settled bodily down into the blue, thus giving no distantly discernible token of the movement...

7.75 inches by 11 inches
ink and marker on found paper
March 27, 2010

Friday, April 2, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 212

Title: Those tiger yellow creatures of his seemed all steel and whale-bone...

7.75 inches by 11 inches
ink and marker on found paper
March 27, 2010

Thursday, April 1, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 211

Title: He would say the most terrific things to his crew, in a tone so strangely compounded of fun and fury, and the fury seemed so calculated merely as a spice to the fun, that no oarsman could hear such queer invocations without pulling for dear life, and yet pulling for the mere joke of the thing.

11 inches by 7.75 inches
ink and marker on found paper
March 24, 2010