https://www.matt-kish.com/invisible-cities daily 0.75 2018-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166343849-3NLFQ7BV6FGEM1XZ7YQG/image-asset.jpeg Invisible Cities - Diomira 8 x 10 inches ink on watercolor paper March 31, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166364777-EQ9RINLKHTC57E94PYHV/image-asset.jpeg Invisible Cities - Zaira 8 x 10 inches ink on watercolor paper April 20, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166382705-67ZQZ5O7MND07QRRH3LJ/image-asset.jpeg Invisible Cities - Zora 8 x 10 inches acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper May 13, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166404678-SL8F2X780IUWQNSMUZN5/image-asset.jpeg Invisible Cities - Zoe 8 x 10 inches ink on watercolor paper June 22, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166424572-8RSQM4O89AYEUC61EQ42/image-asset.jpeg Invisible Cities - Zobeide 8 x 10 inches ink on watercolor paper July 15, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166468669-M4ELJ93QWV4DQ1ICED1V/image-asset.jpeg Invisible Cities - Sophronia 8 x 10 inches ink on watercolor paper August 27, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166490235-TSGSSMSC3JE46WJ8R4JY/image-asset.jpeg Invisible Cities - Aglaura 8 x 10 inches acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper September 16, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166511224-3LHDMTJNYTHGXX3UH1NA/image-asset.jpeg Invisible Cities - Baucis 8 x 10 inches acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper October 7, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166529733-DMD74H44WTA0VVPS6F45/image-asset.jpeg Invisible Cities - Esmeralda 8 x 10 inches acrylic paint on watercolor paper October 21, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166568688-TXAFMRO30XOVJE3J7IA4/image-asset.jpeg Invisible Cities - Thekla 8 x 10 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper January 13, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166587211-NJFISF9P97KQCIRTRRJY/image-asset.jpeg Invisible Cities - Raissa 8 x 10 inches ink on watercolor paper January 23, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460167395278-ZIA6RMARXMICZ00H9M2K/invisiblecities25_aglaura_09162014.jpg Invisible Cities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166607631-41JXIUWL59ZBGL35E4AI/image-asset.jpeg Invisible Cities - Marozia 8 x 10 inches ink on watercolor paper January 25, 2015 https://www.matt-kish.com/moby-dick-extracts daily 0.75 2016-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1466877197472-OM97XV5P6EQNTNYHHTHO/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 01 "And God created great whales." GENESIS. 7.5 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint on found paper June 8, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460170276766-OZDPXBFFDJGJ4TKBDMHZ/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 01 "And God created great whales." GENESIS. 10 7/8" by 7 1/2" acrylic paint on found paper June 8, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166711042-XV7AYED9T8XGFO4ZY77N/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 02 "Leviathan maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep to be hoary." JOB. 11 x 8.375 inches acrylic paint on found paper June 9, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166734275-QLRMSFIZ3PNFACK3U64P/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 03 "Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah." JONAH. 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and ink on found paper June 11, 2015   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166753439-E8THMNNZGDUIXZSHUDN0/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 05 "In that day, the Lord with his sore, and great, and strong sword, shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea." ISAIAH. 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint on found paper June 16, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166774894-KLUG4DXBZUVVU85NMM3R/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 08 "Scarcely had we proceeded two days on the sea, when about sunrise a great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, appeared. Among the former, one was of a most monstrous size. * * This came towards us, open-mouthed, raising the waves on all size, and beating the sea before him into a foam." TOOKE'S LUCIAN. "THE TRUE HISTORY." 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint, ballpoint pen and ink on found paper July 31, 2015   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166800721-IC3SN5LSPV4M3F87KTHX/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 11 "Let us fly, let us fly! Old Nick take me if it is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Moses in the life of patient Job." RABELAIS. 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint on found paper August 11, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166825396-QOOQSKZMY188RXT9D6FE/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 12 "This whale's liver was two cartloads." STOWE'S ANNALS. 7.875 x 11 inches acrylic paint and pencil on found paper August 13, 2015   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166849603-6NINTASZ5RET0JA5SWYW/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 17 "Which to secure, no skill of leach's art Mote him availle, but to returne againe To his wound's worker, that with lowly dart, Dinting his breast, had bred his restless paine, Like as the wounded whale to shore flies thro' the maine." THE FAERIE QUEENE. 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint on found paper September 20, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166876135-HNGOU975Z2TTMDFL22YP/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 19 "What spermacetti is, men might justly doubt, since the learned Hosmannus in his work of thirty years, saith plainly, Nescio quid sit." SIR T. BROWNE. OF SPERMA CETI AND THE SPERMA CETI WHALE. VIDE HIS V.E. 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint on found paper October 4, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166900487-H23XJV1BNC75YC0LG20E/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 21 "By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or State- (in Latin, Civitas) which is but an artificial man." OPENING SENTENCE OF HOBBES'S LEVIATHAN. 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint on found paper October 6, 2015   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460167271647-BPUJ14WH4NUMRPXY7GQH/extracts.jpg Moby-Dick: Extracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166922877-FKA5VKFSKFPFRDHK7S2M/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 37 "If we compare land animals in respect to magnitude, with those that take up their abode in the deep, we shall find they will appear contemptible in the comparison. The whale is doubtless the largest animal in creation." GOLDSMITH, NAT. HIS. 15.75 x 11 inches acrylic paint on found paper November 11, 2015   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166945514-KIW2J3U8D746WXI1GN2M/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 41 "The Spermacetti Whale found by the Nantuckois, is an active, fierce animal, and requires vast address and boldness in the fishermen." THOMAS JEFFERSON'S WHALE MEMORIAL TO THE FRENCH MINISTER IN 1778. 11.75 x 9 inches acrylic paint on found paper November 22, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460166991361-3896D5Z4BMFT5XDKYUC5/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 44 "A tenth branch of the king's ordinary revenue, said to be grounded on the consideration of his guarding and protecting the seas from pirates and robbers, is the right to royal fish, which are whale and sturgeon. And these, when either thrown ashore or caught near the coast, are the property of the king." BLACKSTONE. 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint on found paper November 25, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460167021451-HQ6HUAKLGJNDUPDWUQON/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 45 "Soon to the sport of death the crews repair: Rodmond unerring o'er his head suspends The barbed steel, and every turn attends." FALCONER'S SHIPWRECK. 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint on found paper November 25, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460167055190-AAHHPASCV7NJXL8SIEV3/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 46 "Bright shone the roofs, the domes, the spires, And rockets blew self driven, To hang their momentary fire Around the vault of heaven. "So fire with water to compare, The ocean serves on high, Up-spouted by a whale in air, To express unwieldy joy." COWPER, ON THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO LONDON. 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint on found paper November 27, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460167080280-FXB2P7YB6UYXYWJXEBTB/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 49 "The whale is a mammiferous animal without hind feet." BARON CUVIER. 15.75 x 10.75 inches acrylic paint on found paper November 29, 2015   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460167101693-8SJFJXZ4XFRUF1OHHQ31/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 51 "In the free element beneath me swam, Floundered and dived, in play, in chace, in battle, Fishes of every color, form, and kind; Which language cannot paint, and mariner Had never seen; from dread Leviathan To insect millions peopling every wave: Gather'd in shoals immense, like floating islands, Led by mysterious instincts through that waste And trackless region, though on every side Assaulted by voracious enemies, Whales, sharks, and monsters, arm'd in front or jaw. With swords, saws, spiral horns, or hooked fangs." MONTGOMERY'S WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD. 10.875 x 21 inches acrylic paint on found paper December 10, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460167130581-8IHAY6CS0V7B0AXOPRAS/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 53 "In the year 1690 some persons were on a high hill observing the whales spouting and sporting with each other, when one observed; there - pointing to the sea - is a green pasture where our children's grand-children will go for bread." OBED MACY'S HISTORY OF NANTUCKET. 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint on found paper December 22, 2015   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460167160358-VMYQT7NX1AVSHJZTP6AJ/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 61 "Mad with the agonies he endures from these fresh attacks, the infuriated Sperm Whale rolls over and over; he rears his enormous head, and with wide expanded jaws snaps at everything around him; he rushes at the boats with his head; they are propelled before him with vast swiftness, and sometimes utterly destroyed. * * * It is a matter of great astonishment that the consideration of the habits of so interesting, and, in a commercial point of view, of so important an animal (as the Sperm Whale) should have been so entirely neglected, or should have excited so little curiosity among the numerous, and many of them competent observers, that of late years must have possessed the most abundant and the most convenient opportunities of witnessing their habitudes." THOMAS BEALE'S HISTORY OF THE SPERM WHALE, 1839. 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint on found paper January 25, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460167212696-AA07UI836WZFUP0ATLOF/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 73 "It was not till the boats returned from the pursuit of these whales, that the whites saw their ship in bloody possession of the savages enrolled among the crew." NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT OF THE TAKING AND RETAKING OF THE WHALE-SHIP HOBOMOCK. 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint on found paper February 19, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460167233707-LBTGSK7A6HHYPOMAW6U9/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick: Extracts - EXTRACTS 74 "It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed." CRUISE IN A WHALE BOAT. 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint on found paper February 22, 2016   https://www.matt-kish.com/moby-dick daily 0.75 2016-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460136763884-UD2EXAACCKPDGSJSIHP8/md001_08052009.jpg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 001 Call me Ishmael. 11 x 8 inches colored pencil and ink on found paper August 5, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460137948318-MU45U72NT5ED9IAP9YM3/md003_08072009.jpg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 003 It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all. 11 x 7.75 inches acrylic paint, ballpoint pen and colored pencil on found paper August 7, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460138020610-05ZH1J9UYFNNZ6QON4YO/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 006 Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale himself. 11 x 7.5 inches acrylic paint on found paper August 11, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460138069081-IQOHQBQ0LRXYI6B0CDE1/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 018 "Depend upon it, landlord, that harpooneer is a dangerous man." 10.5 x 8.5 inches acrylic paint, collage and ink on found paper August 23, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460138132771-9UXN57UASLY705GPSU70/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 020 Lord save me, thinks I, that must be the harpooneer, the infernal head-peddler. 11 x 8.5 inches acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper August 25, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460138679475-KBHKWR0WY7WKRNIK587K/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 030 Yes, here were a set of sea-dogs, many of whom without the slightest bashfulness had boarded great whales on the high seas — entire strangers to them — and duelled them dead without winking... 11 x 8 inches acrylic paint, colored pencil and ink on found paper September 5, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460138294861-NWQKROQZTQGNZXWK0GN3/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 042 "...Jonah feels the heralding presentiment of that stifling hour, when the whale shall hold him in the smallest of his bowel's wards." 11 x 8.5 inches ballpoint pen on paper September 17, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460138325155-C7E9L9HLOU3OCVDIQYSP/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 053 His father was a High Chief, a King; his uncle a High Priest; and on the maternal side he boasted aunts who were the wives of unconquerable warriors. 7.75 x 11 inches ink on found paper September 28, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460138352994-9SJSFOWFPI2KYT9FF3KD/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 055 They had made a harpooneer of him, and that barbed iron was in lieu of a sceptre now. 11 x 8.5 inches colored pencil and ink on found paper October 1, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460138776279-DY7BOSC1RMPHMHGADCGV/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 066 ...take my word for it, you never saw such a rare old craft as this same rare old Pequod. She was a ship of the old school, rather small if anything; with an old fashioned claw-footed look about her. 7.75 x 11 inches ballpoint pen on found paper November 5, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460138828875-L62YN1BJCIZBZD63TSWI/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 075 "Thou Bildad!" roared Peleg, starting up and clattering about the cabin. "Blast ye, Captain Bildad, if I had followed thy advice in these matters, I would afore now had a conscience to lug about that would be heavy enough to founder the largest ship that ever sailed round Cape Horn." 11 x 7.75 inches ballpoint pen and ink on found paper November 16, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460138891554-7DO66IL8OM4M12EBQ7T5/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 076 "Fiery pit! fiery pit! ye insult me, man; past all natural bearing, ye insult me. It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell. Flukes and flames!" 7.75 x 11 inches acrylic paint and ink on found paper November 17, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460138936801-H3BYDZ6ITQGPTXAA2IWK/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 092 ...and the men employed in the hold and on the rigging were working till long after night-fall. 7.75 x 11 inches acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper November 29, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460167563664-RFKS3U5PN38787WKK4PF/md534_01112011.jpg Moby-Dick https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460138990683-SXBR35NOTYCHUD4G3G14/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 097 It was now clear sunrise. 7.75 x 11 inches ink on found paper December 8, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460139434361-4S1WG9AI9NH1TM4GBKOY/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 108 The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a Quaker by descent. He was a long, earnest man... 10 x 8.5 inches acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper December 17, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460139478627-X66O2XFKGWP3D8KGMQ61/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 109 "I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale." 7.75 x 11 inches colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper December 19, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460139523407-0GSWYXTL71K7DQ8LFMXW/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 111 Stubb was the second mate. He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence, according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man. A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an indifferent air... 10 x 8.5 inches acrylic paint, colored pencil and ink on found paper December 21, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460139920107-0UU1Y6L66XA699FESQMG/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 112 The third mate was Flask, a native of Tisbury, in Martha's Vineyard. A short, stout, ruddy young fellow, very pugnacious concerning whales, who somehow seemed to think that the great Leviathans had personally and hereditarily affronted him; and therefore it was a sort of point of honor with him, to destroy them whenever encountered. 10 x 8.5 inches acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper December 23, 2009   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460139951015-99FNICXZDW3UHTNEBSAC/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 113 Next was Tashtego, an unmixed Indian from Gay Head, the most westerly promontory of Martha's Vineyard, where there still exists the last remnant of a village of red men, which has long supplied the neighboring island of Nantucket with many of her most daring harpooneers. 8 x 5.75 inches colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper December 26, 2009   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460139982357-5P2KRY6UAYGBE227KTWC/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 114 Third among the harpooneers was Daggoo, a gigantic, coal-black negro-savage, with a lion-like tread - an Ahasuerus to behold. Suspended from his ears were two golden hoops, so large that the sailors called them ring-bolts... 11 x 7.75 inches acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper December 27, 2009   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140020328-8KF97LNQJJN886TSBQNM/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 117 Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck. 11 x 7.75 inches colored pencil and ink on found paper December 29, 2009   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140124166-3ZVI2TZRY6681OYHHRCX/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 126 Of the names in this list of whale authors, only those following Owen ever saw living whales; and but one of them was a real professional harpooneer and whaleman. I mean Captain Scoresby. 11 x 8 inches acrylic paint, colored pencil, crayon, ink and marker on found paper January 15, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140164705-IG0JY96DKCTCXFOOCB6X/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 129 BOOK I (Folio), chapter I (Sperm Whale). 10.75 x 15.75 inches ink on found paper January 16, 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140208652-AFAFTMJOON04RA6KFI56/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 131 The Fin-Back is not gregarious. He seems a whale-hater, as some men are man-haters. Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters... 10.75 x 15.75 inches ink and marker on found paper January 17, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140241723-RURFPN8AU4L7ONQAQXI9/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 132 BOOK I (Folio), chapter IV (Hump Back). 10.75 x 15.75 inches ballpoint pen on found paper January 18, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140271739-2LO0ZFPYI2AZGISZ2LNH/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 157 "...I'd strike the sun if it insulted me." 8 x 5 inches colored pencil and ink on found paper February 9, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140298394-PPSR844ODAMIB7CX9X6N/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 172 ...a Sperm Whale of uncommon magnitude and malignity, which whale, after doing great mischief to his assailants, had completely escaped them... 11 x 7.75 inches acrylic paint, ballpoint pen and ink on found paper February 22, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140338924-MXM1IWH4SYNYT4TQVDA0/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 176 The rest of his body was so streaked, and spotted, and marbled with the same shrouded hue, that, in the end, he had gained his distinctive appellation of the White Whale; a name, indeed, literally justified by his vivid aspect, when seen gliding at high noon through a dark blue sea, leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam, all spangled with golden gleamings. 6 x 10 inches ink on found paper February 27, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140371281-97ZJE1BER3SWEB4R4M91/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 189 And of all these things the Albino Whale was the symbol. 8.5 x 7 inches ink on Bristol board March 6, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140408375-8662OFXYADAMVWNB9BMZ/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 196 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   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140443295-PALJQRCG8UU4H2ML64R9/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 212 Those tiger yellow creatures of his seemed all steel and whalebone... 11 x 7.75 inches ink and marker on found paper March 27, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140475425-5AHD0EBWCSBE4WVS11NH/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 217 ...with a lightning-like hurtling whisper Starbuck said: 'Stand up!' and Queequeg, harpoon in hand, sprang to his feet. 10.75 x 8.5 inches colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper April 4, 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140508507-UOPB4S9FFNPC9KFJVEM2/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 218 Squall, whale, and harpoon had all blended together... 15.25 x 10.75 inches ballpoint pen and ink on found paper April 6, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140545431-RD5IQEFY4QULYEPWYNCI/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 222 ...the pursuit of whales is always under great and extraordinary difficulties... 15.75 x 10.75 inches acrylic paint, collage and ink on found paper April 11, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140569606-XQPFWO7Q60KM6T3OYWBK/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 224 Lit up by the moon, it looked celestial; seemed some plumed and glittering god uprising from the sea. 10.75 x 7.75 inches ink on found paper April 12, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140596242-TAUXX6SAUQHNFHJBLQPU/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 229 "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. 10.75 x 7.25 inches colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper April 28, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140637080-CB0ZR7O3CGVPBHSEOWP7/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 230 Were this world an endless plain, and by sailing eastward we could for ever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there was promise in the voyage. 8 x 12 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper May 1, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140667613-ZNREQHQ91W5KO1EWTKG9/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 259 For all these reasons, then, any way you may look at it, you must needs conclude that the great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last. True, one portrait may hit the mark much nearer than another, but none can hit it with any very considerable degree of exactness. So there is no earthly way of finding out precisely what the whale really looks like. 12 x 9 inches marker on found paper May 26, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140702729-Z8CDST5DR86A6QWBE8KM/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 261 And all the while the thick-lipped Leviathan is rushing through the deep, leaving tons of tumultuous white curds in his wake... 11 x 8.5 inches acrylic paint, charcoal, colored pencil, ink and pencil on found paper May 28, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460140747346-VCJGFIR0R1B7TR71AZA1/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 263 Throughout the Pacific, and also in Nantucket, and New Bedford, and Sag Harbor, you will come across lively sketches of whales and whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm Whale-teeth... 10.5 x 8 inches ink and marker on found paper May 30, 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460141360202-3UTRY9F1WWVAHO87848M/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 266 As morning mowers, who side by side slowly and seethingly advance their scythes through the long wet grass of marshy meads; even so these monsters swam, making a strange, grassy, cutting sound; and leaving behind them endless swaths of blue upon the yellow sea. 7.75 x 10.75 inches ink and marker on found paper June 2, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460163625847-S647URCDLBVHX5ALCW9I/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 274 "When you see him 'quid", said the savage, honing his harpoon in the bow of his hoisted boat, "then you quick see him 'parm whale." 7.75 x 10.75 inches colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper June 8, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460163690056-4A2Q37IZHA41VQDNR1XR/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 285 ...this old Fleece, as they called him, came shuffling and limping along... 8.5 x 6.75 inches acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper June 20, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460163736602-Y3969PL26DZK2IJ0XMIW/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 297 In life, the visible surface of the Sperm Whale is not the least among the many marvels he presents. Almost invariably it is all over obliquely crossed and re-crossed with numberless straight marks in thick array, something like those in the finest Italian line engravings. 8.5 x 5.5 inches ink on found paper July 3, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460163775834-U0OC9RGJH755E9T5TWJN/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 309 On the occasion in question, Queequeg figured in the Highland costume — a shirt and socks — in which to my eyes, at least, he appeared to uncommon advantage; and no one had a better chance to observe him, as will presently be seen. 10.75 x 7.75 inches acrylic paint, colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper July 13, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460163813923-7LHJKLCRPUA3Y8R61QFH/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 317 "How old do you suppose Fedallah is, Stubb?" "Do you see that mainmast there?" pointing to the ship; "well, that's the figure one; now take all the hoops in the Pequod's hold, and string 'em along in a row with that mast, for oughts, do you see; well, that wouldn't begin to be Fedallah's age. Nor all the coopers in creation couldn't show hoops enough to make oughts enough." 7.75 x 10.75 inches ink and marker on found paper July 20, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460163852117-YXIGC3RXNA00VOGUVG4Q/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 319 There is more character in the Sperm Whale's head. 8 x 6 inches ink on found paper July 22, 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460163881417-6244TD55LNNI85L2B6JZ/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 333 Now, how had this noble rescue been accomplished? Why, diving after the slowly descending head, Queequeg with his keen sword had made side lunges near its bottom, so as to scuttle a large hole there; then dropping his sword, had thrust his long arm far inwards and upwards, and so hauled out our poor Tash by the head. 8.75 x 5.25 inches colored pencil, ink and marker on watercolor paper August 3, 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460163919216-30OTYSVZ43LJ8O9AZP9W/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 339 The predestinated day arrived, and we duly met the ship Jungfrau, Derick De Deer, master, of Bremen. 8 x 9.5 inches ink and marker on found paper August 6, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460163950472-LLKAZMWBV5JU5F4YVBRZ/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 342 At this juncture, the Pequod's keels had shot by the three German boats last lowered; but from the great start he had had, Derick's boat still led the chase, though every moment neared by his foreign rivals. 10.75 x 7.75 inches acrylic paint and ink on found paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460163982625-X3VF966K9G3TLRSCPILO/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 348 It so chanced that almost upon first cutting into him with the spade, the entire length of a corroded harpoon was found imbedded in his flesh, on the lower part of the bunch before described. 11 x 8.5 inches ink and marker on paper August 12, 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164023491-V4CAXL382Q9DLKNI61PW/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 357 Instead of sparkling water, he now spouts red blood. 7.75 x 10.75 inches acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper August 29, 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164050975-FH1P6Z0WZHMOTDT6RU0S/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 359 This is what I mean. If unmolested, upon rising to the surface, the Sperm Whale will continue there for a period of time exactly uniform with all his other unmolested risings. Say he stays eleven minutes, and jets seventy times, that is, respires seventy breaths; then whenever he rises again, he will be sure to have his seventy breaths over again, to a minute. Now, if after he fetches a few breaths you alarm him, that he sounds, he will be always dodging up again to make good his regular allowance of air. And not till those seventy breaths are told, will he finally go down to stay out his full term below. 8.5 x 7 inches ink on Bristol board August 29, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164111439-EVL6RTYU1UQI2V13VL95/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 362 He is both ponderous and profound. 10.75 x 7.75 inches acrylic paint on found paper August 31, 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164146922-NOIB8XLTZIRR7DT19FDN/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 366 Standing at the mast-head of my ship during a sunrise that crimsoned sky and sea, I once saw a large herd of whales in the east, all heading towards the sun, and for a moment vibrating in concert with peaked flukes. As it seemed to me at the time, such a grand embodiment of adoration of the gods was never beheld... 8.75 x 8.75 inches ink and marker on found paper September 4, 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164178393-Y8IQ9G1G9XYA1SMNWVSX/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 381 Almost universally, a lone whale - as a solitary Leviathan is called - proves an ancient one. 7 x 8.5 inches acrylic paint, colored pencil and ink on Bristol board September 19, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164206852-OSPYA0ABL1D4B8WCDGSI/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 383 I. A Fast-Fish belongs to the party fast to it. II. A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it. 7 x 8.5 inches acrylic paint, collage and ink on found paper September 21, 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164243492-M9C4WAT9ETR88WFE21QZ/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 397 ...which latter name is the one used by the learned Fogo Von Slack, in his great work on Smells, a textbook on that subject. 11 x 8 inches acrylic paint, charcoal and pencil on found paper October 2, 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164270878-J42JTBG1EWF1AUV1UJ8H/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 400 Tashtego stood in the bows. He was full of the fire of the hunt. 5.5 x 8 inches acrylic paint on found paper October 5, 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164297618-NEP2ABBYYWHQ7JJVR4ST/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 402 Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. 6 x 9.5 inches ink on watercolor paper October 10, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164323228-PX3Y11X3WEPY3A91JVV9/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 423 "Presently up breaches from the bottom of the sea a bouncing great whale, with a milky-white head and hump, all crows' feet and wrinkles." 15.5 x 10.75 inches acrylic paint and ink on found paper October 25, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164351035-U1OYJYGBT0X7J075VQB3/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 424 "...the whale's tail looming straight up out of it, perpendicular in the air, like a marble steeple." 15.5 x 10.75 inches acrylic paint and ink on found paper October 26, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164374972-NNA27MDA8J3S4X2JCNTA/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 427 "But he will still be hunted, for all that. What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures. He's all a magnet!" 11 x 8.25 inches acrylic paint and ink on found paper October 29, 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164423386-Q6GMFK8GHR0U18YZYLY1/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 440 To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. 10 x 6.25 inches ink on found paper November 7, 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164447850-XB5O34V0U5BU7UKHY30L/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 443 For Pliny tells us of whales that embraced acres of living bulk, and Aldrovandus of others which measured eight hundred feet in length... 10.75 x 15.5 inches acrylic paint and ink on found paper November 10, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164471064-S5X8MEA4WPGCOLXF0604/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 447 In Noah's flood he despised Noah's Ark; and if ever the world is to be again flooded, like the Netherlands, to kill off its rats, then the eternal whale will still survive, and rearing upon the topmost crest of the equatorial flood, spout his frothed defiance to the skies. 15.5 x 10.75 inches acrylic paint and pencil on found paper November 13, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164504827-ATOAW7VA7Z03BQXUQDXI/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 452 Yet, as previously hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut carpenter, was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton. If he did not have a common soul in him, he had a subtle something that somehow anomalously did its duty. 11 x 8.5 inches acrylic paint and ink on found paper November 16, 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164534349-5NOG39UUXXOEF5ZC421F/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 464 So, in good time my Queequeg gained strength; and at length after sitting on the windlass for a few indolent days (but eating with a vigorous appetite) he suddenly leaped to his feet, threw out arms and legs, gave himself a good stretching, yawned a little bit, and then springing into the head of his hoisted boat, and poising a harpoon, pronounced himself fit for a fight. 10.75 x 7.75 inches acrylic paint, colored pencil and ink on found paper November 26, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164560297-N13CDV307RFHSR0BIABV/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 470 At last the shank, in one complete rod, received its final heat; and as Perth, to temper it, plunged it all hissing into the cask of water near by, the scalding steam shot up into Ahab's bent face. 9.75 x 6.25 inches acrylic paint and ink on found paper November 30, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164588682-E0JRL689DV0RE8JA4ZJ0/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 476 It was far down the afternoon; and when all the spearings of the crimson fight were done: and floating in the lovely sunset sea and sky, sun and whale both stilly died together... 7.25 x 10.25 inches ink and marker on found paper December 4, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164615277-QB0073AX8RN3T4OQKP5B/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 477 For that strange spectacle observable in all Sperm Whales dying - the turning sunwards of the head, and so expiring - that strange spectacle, beheld of such a placid evening, somehow to Ahab conveyed a wondrousness unknown before. 9 x 7.25 inches acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper December 4, 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164644761-QGJPZBDOYSC2M4898994/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 482 So, too, it is, that in these resplendent Japanese seas the mariner encounters the direst of all storms, the Typhoon. It will sometimes burst from out that cloudless sky, like an exploding bomb upon a dazed and sleepy town. 7.75 x 8.25 inches acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper December 8, 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164671871-V2QYRKDNGAOLSJH06VF8/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 484 "Look aloft!" cried Starbuck. "The St. Elmo's Lights (corpus sancti) corposants! the corposants!" All the yard-arms were tipped with a pallid fire; and touched at each tri-pointed lightning-rod-end with three tapering white flames, each of the three tall masts was silently burning in that sulphurous air, like three gigantic wax tapers before an altar. 11 x 7.5 inches acrylic paint and ballpoint pen on found paper December 8, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164702463-G6B7PBH25YSO69JCOKIZ/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 486 "Aye, aye, men!" cried Ahab. "Look up at it; mark it well; the white flame but lights the way to the White Whale!" 10.75 x 15.5 inches acrylic paint, ballpoint pen and ink on found paper December 9, 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164726536-R1YYXJ0TK8370FHBIA5Z/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 504 "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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164769250-E7ZVET08ZGUJ7DTRH0HV/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 520 "...forty years on the pitiless sea! for forty years has Ahab forsaken the peaceful land, for forty years to make war on the horrors of the deep!" 12 x 8.25 inches acrylic paint on watercolor paper December 31, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164791603-5GJM4GXE463D0B579BJP/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 533 "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!" 6.25 x 10 inches acrylic paint on found paper January 10, 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164817392-S00MCBC8GE8QRSKCGX90/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 534 ...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. 12 x 8.25 inches ink on watercolor paper January 11, 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164846277-4LUZBGUY81MPEEUO7HCD/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 535 ...the White Whale churning himself into furious speed, almost in an instant as it were, rushing among the boats with open jaws, and a lashing tail, offered appalling battle on every side; and heedless of the irons darted at him from every boat, seemed only intent on annihilating each separate plank of which those boats were made. 10.5 x 7.5 inches acrylic paint and ink on found paper January 11, 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164873898-1G0PVZO06CWG2D15BU9N/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 538 "Great God! but for one single instant show thyself," cried Starbuck; "never, never wilt thou capture him, old man - In Jesus' name no more of this, that's worse than devil's madness. Two days chased; twice stove to splinters; thy very leg once more snatched from under thee; thy evil shadow gone - all good angels mobbing thee with warnings; - what more wouldst thou have? - Shall we keep chasing this murderous fish till he swamps the last man? Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world? Oh, oh, - Impiety and blasphemy to hunt him more!" 8.25 x 12 inches acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper January 15, 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164899197-TET68Q6AHDEM460LGT3S/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 546 ...Moby Dick was now again steadily swimming forward... 8.25 x 12 inches acrylic paint on watercolor paper January 20, 2011   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164924287-N01AB7MH8LFUHMQK08HR/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 548 Hearing the tremendous rush of the sea-crashing boat, the whale wheeled round to present his blank forehead at bay; but in that evolution, catching sight of the nearing black hull of the ship; seemingly seeing in it the source of all his persecutions; bethinking it - it may be - a larger and nobler foe; of a sudden, he bore down upon its advancing prow, smiting his jaws amid fiery showers of foam. 10.75 x 15.5 inches ink on watercolor paper January 22, 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164951048-V63ENF7646WDS6LQTQYN/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 549 Retribution, swift vengeance, eternal malice were in his whole aspect, and spite of all that mortal man could do, the solid white buttress of his forehead smote the ship's starboard bow, till men and timbers reeled. Some fell flat upon their faces. Like dislodged trucks, the heads of the harpooneers aloft shook on their bull-like necks. Through the breach, they heard the waters pour, as mountain torrents down a flume. "The ship! The hearse! - the second hearse!" cried Ahab from the boat; "its wood could only be American!" 10.75 x 15.5 inches acrylic paint and ink on found paper January 23, 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460164980199-T6V438SRCU7EQTIAI016/image-asset.jpeg Moby-Dick - MOBY-DICK, page 550 "Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!" 12 x 8.25 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper January 23, 2011   https://www.matt-kish.com/heart-of-darkness daily 0.75 2016-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165166937-KE4HUX62LREHS7EIUX6C/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 001 A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless... 11 x 6.75 inches ink on watercolor paper August 25, 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165215328-INOH5JXWKI5PCH6UQOWM/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 003 "And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth." 11 x 6.75 inches ink on watercolor paper August 25, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165241725-7ORCI3FWDYDT4YSZIDMH/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 004 But Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos that sometimes are made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine. 11 x 6.75 inches ink on watercolor paper August 26, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165270361-OUC57MU7XMF8OF44EF7G/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 005 "Land in a swamp, march through the woods, and in some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him -- all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men." 11 x 6.75 inches ink on watercolor paper August 26, 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165293245-JZHWK9X1GTUU9IPRKGFL/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 013 "Something like an emissary of light, something like a lower sort of apostle." 11 x 6.75 inches ink on watercolor paper September 11, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165326853-46HI41KEUR92SUY38JC5/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 015 "Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech -- and nothing happened. Nothing could happen." 11 x 6.75 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper September 17, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165346165-G00MW3VUKFVSN9SFHZWQ/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 016 "I had my passage on a little sea-going steamer. Her captain was a Swede, and knowing me for a seaman, invited me on the bridge. He was a young man, lean, fair, and morose, with lanky hair and a shuffling gait." 11 x 6.75 inches ink on watercolor paper September 19, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165368138-VHZV4R0JT4ASA5439YJA/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 019 "They were dying slowly -- it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now -- nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom." 11 x 6.75 inches ink on watercolor paper September 23, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165397314-Y482ZH0LGC3LSUMFQ2BW/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 020 "When near the buildings I met a white man, in such an unexpected elegance of get-up that in the first moment I took him for a sort of vision. I saw a high starched collar, white cuffs, a light alpaca jacket, snowy trousers, a clean necktie, and varnished boots. No hat. Hair parted, brushed, oiled, under a green-lined parasol held in a big white hand. He was amazing, and had a penholder behind his ear." 11 x 6.75 inches ink on watercolor paper September 23, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165418847-PS3EUO4Y85JMFTKKDLJ0/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 022 "In the steady buzz of flies the homeward-bound agent was lying finished and insensible; the other, bent over his books, was making correct entries of perfectly correct transactions..." 11 x 6.75 inches ink on watercolor paper September 24, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165450864-KZW283Y4P5ZZAPWF3MCS/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 025 "He was commonplace in complexion, in features, in manners, and in voice. He was of middle size and of ordinary build. His eyes, of the usual blue, were perhaps remarkably cold, and he certainly could make his glance fall on one as trenchant and heavy as an axe. But even at these times the rest of his person seemed to disclaim the intention. Otherwise there was only an indefinable, faint expression of his lips, something stealthy -- a smile -- not a smile -- I remember it, but I can't explain. It was unconscious, this smile was, though just after he had said something it got intensified for an instant. It came at the end of his speeches like a seal applied on the words to make the meaning of the commonest phrase appear absolutely inscrutable." 11 x 6.75 inches ink on watercolor paper September 30, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165482327-SYA8VQ7G2Q5Z8PVK6J31/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 026 "Then he began again, assuring me Mr. Kurtz was the best agent he had, an exceptional man, of the greatest importance to the Company..." 11 x 6.75 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper September 30, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460167458529-5PQFPCZXT6NVB3OURQEO/hod2_054_11242012.jpg Heart of Darkness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165502357-NAA0ZIMXIHA6BECVALXF/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 034 "What I really wanted was rivets, by heaven! Rivets. To get on with the work -- to stop the hole. Rivets I wanted. There were cases of them down at the coast -- cases -- piled up -- burst -- split! You kicked a loose rivet at every second step in that station-yard on the hillside. Rivets had rolled into the grove of death. You could fill your pockets with rivets for the trouble of stooping down -- and there wasn't one rivet to be found where it was wanted." 11 x 6.75 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper October 14, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165528331-6E7BCUCC32Y9E6GHGGQX/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 040 "'Each station should be like a beacon on the road towards better things, a centre for trade of course, but also for humanizing, improving, instructing.'" 11 x 6.75 inches ink on watercolor paper October 27, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165558644-1BDH0JAXVXZA0WOQZZQH/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 041 "Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine. The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of over-shadowed distances." 11 x 6.75 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper October 28, 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165581621-7L6HS8W43NRERNWFP6Y5/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 048 "But still we crawled. Sometimes I would pick out a tree a little way ahead to measure our progress towards Kurtz by, but I lost it invariably before we got abreast. To keep the eyes so long on one thing was too much for human patience." 11 x 6.75 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper November 11, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165604795-9UWOLVJ33EQ8O945R5YU/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 050 "Their headman, a young, broad-chested black, severely draped in dark-blue fringed cloths, with fierce nostrils and his hair all done up artfully in oily ringlets, stood near me. 'Aha!' I said, just for good fellowship's sake. 'Catch 'im,' he snapped, with a bloodshot widening of his eyes and a flash of sharp teeth -- 'catch 'im. Give 'im to us.' 'To you, eh?' I asked; 'what would you do with them?' 'Eat 'im!' he said curtly, and, leaning his elbow on the rail, looked out into the fog in a dignified and profoundly pensive attitude." 11 x 6.75 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper November 13, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165625887-R1LF5921DLJ1IPAE76ID/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 054 "Still, I had also judged the jungle of both banks quite impenetrable -- and yet eyes were in it, eyes that had seen us." 11 x 6.75 inches ink on watercolor paper November 24, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165646929-XPH6U1Q1QJSSP9MJG1R9/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 065 "Then without more ado I tipped him overboard. The current snatched him as though he had been a wisp of grass, and I saw the body roll over twice before I lost sight of it for ever." 11 x 6.75 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper December 6, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165667490-RM81HSCP1Q2IB35AJXOH/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 066 "Through my glasses I saw the slope of a hill interspersed with rare trees and perfectly free from under-growth. A long decaying building on the summit was half buried in the high grass; the large holes in the peaked roof gaped black from afar; the jungle and the woods made a background. There was no enclosure or fence of any kind; but there had been one apparently, for near the house half-a-dozen slim posts remained in a row, roughly trimmed, and with their upper ends ornamented with round carved balls. The rails, or whatever there had been between, had disappeared." 11 x 6.75 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper December 8, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165694130-SZWZDOXV9C9IGTD023MF/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 076 "He looked at least seven feet long. His covering had fallen off, and his body emerged from it pitiful and appalling as from a winding-sheet. I could see the cage of his ribs all astir, the bones of his arm waving. It was as though an animated image of death carved out of old ivory had been shaking its hand with menaces at a motionless crowd of men made of dark and glittering bronze. I saw him open his mouth wide -- it gave him a weirdly voracious aspect, as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him. A deep voice reached me faintly. He must have been shouting." 11 x 6.75 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper December 16, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165716162-1ADCRFMI03HDZ4U2NNFN/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 083 "As soon as I got on the bank I saw a trail -- a broad trail through the grass. I remember the exultation with which I said to myself, 'He can't walk -- he is crawling on all-fours -- I've got him.'" 11 x 6.75 inches ink on watercolor paper December 25, 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165756608-KBAWCLPL8T33WO0YOXYM/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 085 "There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth." 11 x 6.75 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper December 26, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165778526-WS53Y6OE1S2C1YF9RZY7/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 086 "In front of the first rank, along the river, three men, plastered with bright red earth from head to foot, strutted to and fro restlessly. When we came abreast again, they faced the river, stamped their feet, nodded their horned heads, swayed their scarlet bodies..." 11 x 6.75 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper December 27, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165803176-OSZUGKD2T3T1VJEPGB6R/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 088 "The shade of the original Kurtz frequented the bedside of the hollow sham, whose fate it was to be buried presently in the mould of primeval earth." 11 x 6.75 inches acrylic paint, ink and marker on watercolor paper December 28, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165822887-ALLVV2A3XUOJ52SQLPP6/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 092 "I tottered about the streets -- there were various affairs to settle -- grinning bitterly at perfectly respectable persons. I admit my behaviour was inexcusable, but then my temperature was seldom normal in these days." 11 x 6.75 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper January 1, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165844733-FHMXY2YADKVK6NFO8C0B/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 096 "She came forward, all in black, with a pale head, floating towards me in the dusk. She was in mourning." 11 x 6.75 inches acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper January 8, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1460165865730-AIT3GUS6B8ZCF5CBVMW6/image-asset.jpeg Heart of Darkness - HEART OF DARKNESS, page 098 "'Yes, I know,' I said with something like despair in my heart, but bowing my head before the faith that was in her, before that great and saving illusion that shone with an unearthly glow in the darkness, in the triumphant darkness from which I could not have defended her -- from which I could not even defend myself." 11 x 6.75 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper January 12, 2013 https://www.matt-kish.com/cosmicomics daily 0.75 2018-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488642363019-24AI5CZFT8LGPTQ326WA/cosmicomics013_timeandthehunter01_thesoftmoon_03292016_1593t.jpg Cosmicomics - The Soft Moon 14 x 11 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper March 29, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488642363019-24AI5CZFT8LGPTQ326WA/cosmicomics013_timeandthehunter01_thesoftmoon_03292016_1593t.jpg Cosmicomics - The Soft Moon 14 x 11 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper March 29, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488642450035-X67G30YQX371PWBFUL1M/cosmicomics016_timeandthehunter04_bloodsea_04182016_1595.jpg Cosmicomics - Blood, Sea 14 x 11 inches acrylic paint on watercolor paper April 18, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488642508857-WNNEO3OTAT1IM6OT184L/cosmicomics019_timeandthehunter07_priscilla3death_05102016_1596.jpg Cosmicomics - Priscilla III: Death 9 x 12 inches ink on watercolor paper May 10, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488642553103-ESP8RJV3SRMSMZSNWR8O/cosmicomics022_timeandthehunter10_thenightdriver_05312016_1598.jpg Cosmicomics - The Night Driver 11 x 14 inches ink on watercolor paper May 31, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488642607721-COOTFQ21USV1JVUEPPFI/cosmicomics025_worldmemoryandothercosmicomicstories02_thedaughtersofthemoon_06212016_1601.jpg Cosmicomics - The Daughters of the Moon 14 x 11 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper June 21, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488642657006-WM8YYJ00KMS2X42AAKGR/cosmicomics028_worldmemoryandothercosmicomicstories05_aslongasthesunlasts_07122016_1603.jpg Cosmicomics - As Long as the Sun Lasts 11 x 14 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper July 12, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488642744076-7R4OZFLSSALCUC12M4K6/cosmicomics031_worldmemoryandothercosmicomicstories08_worldmemory_08232016_1609.jpg Cosmicomics - World Memory 8 x 10 inches ink and watercolor paint on watercolor paper August 23, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488642791754-619HJ20W2UKBQ3E0HAI3/cosmicomics034_arewrittencosmicomicstory_theothereurydice_08302016_1610.jpg Cosmicomics - The Other Eurydice 9 x 9 inches ink and marker on watercolor paper August 30, 2016 https://www.matt-kish.com/a-radiant-bestiary daily 0.75 2018-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488642880915-Z7Z1SWNYRUUC3ILZXE9Y/aradiantbestiary001_rhinoceros01_09252016_1617.jpg A Radiant Bestiary - Rhinoceros 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint on found paper September 25, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488642880915-Z7Z1SWNYRUUC3ILZXE9Y/aradiantbestiary001_rhinoceros01_09252016_1617.jpg A Radiant Bestiary - Rhinoceros 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint on found paper September 25, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488642934110-3API6RIC6AAZVER759ZB/aradiantbestiary002_antblack01_09302016_1618.jpg A Radiant Bestiary - Ant (Black) 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint on found paper September 30, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488642980644-JIYWK69MQSUVNDABM15B/aradiantbestiary003_antfire01_10022016_1619.jpg A Radiant Bestiary - Ant (Fire) 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint on found paper October 2, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488643024496-UBJDKH6IVRYSWTLRYY3T/aradiantbestiary004_beeworker01_10042016_1620.jpg A Radiant Bestiary - Bee (Worker) 10.875 x 15.375 inches acrylic paint on found paper October 4, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488643069651-PAQ3HGV4HGBSKE73Z40P/aradiantbestiary005_anaconda01_10142016_1621.jpg A Radiant Bestiary - Anaconda 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint on found paper October 14, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488643119459-ZOXUM5RL2T1OH1B49DCA/aradiantbestiary006_antlionlarva01_10182016_1622.jpg A Radiant Bestiary - Antlion Larva 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint on found paper October 18, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488643174151-DKK9US8PD7VSU0C7VBJ0/aradiantbestiary007_cloudbuster01_10262016_1623.jpg A Radiant Bestiary - Cloudbuster 10.875 x 15.5 inches acrylic paint on found paper October 26, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488643238341-9DWA5J5OKFC6E1LQ2QC0/aradiantbestiary008_firebird01_11012016_1624.jpg A Radiant Bestiary - Firebird 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint on found paper November 1, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488643280485-DF6P5Y4EDWN1XX4T1SAF/aradiantbestiary009_spiderwithdiaphanouswebs_11142016_1626.jpg A Radiant Bestiary - Spider (with diaphanous web) 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint on found paper November 14, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488643340450-FYGYU2Z4V5Z6NYO6D8PZ/aradiantbestiary010_elephant01_11172016_1627.jpg A Radiant Bestiary - Elephant 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint on found paper November 17, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1488643382606-PW83JABOP10DB3GM7093/aradiantbestiary011_snail01_11202016_1628.jpg A Radiant Bestiary - Snail 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint on found paper November 20, 2016 https://www.matt-kish.com/mobydick-broadsides daily 0.75 2018-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545874896171-6I9FTGQLWZ8JX72840OD/chasingthewhale_broadsides01_12012015_1534t.jpg Moby-Dick: Broadsides - The Thrill Set is in Japan / Urrr Urrrr Urrrr 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper December 1, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545874896171-6I9FTGQLWZ8JX72840OD/chasingthewhale_broadsides01_12012015_1534t.jpg Moby-Dick: Broadsides - The Thrill Set is in Japan / Urrr Urrrr Urrrr 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper December 1, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545875415365-GRVKSSQJ4ZF8HC9QWAIC/chasingthewhale_broadsides02_12022015_1535t.jpg Moby-Dick: Broadsides - Worlds Unknown / Let Me PROVE I Can Make You A NEW MAN! 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper December 2, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545875484289-1C7NABZ4KDS5SI16Y8Q5/chasingthewhale_broadsides03_12072015_1536t.jpg Moby-Dick: Broadsides - Live and work in"ManCountry" / WIN ANY FIGHT!! 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper December 7, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545875537276-PCYDKWBTXXPAVSAW0KEC/chasingthewhale_broadsides04_12082015_1537t.jpg Moby-Dick: Broadsides - They Were Phantoms / AMAZING 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper December 8, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545875588352-2XJ7HT298LKN0WBQ0SU7/chasingthewhale_broadsides05_12102015_1539t.jpg Moby-Dick: Broadsides - The Golden Voyage / Monster Money Maker 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper December 10, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545875645579-WZREHVEC1E49P85GY2ZI/chasingthewhale_broadsides06_12132015_1542t.jpg Moby-Dick: Broadsides - What To Sink Your Teeth Into When You're Hungry / DO YOU NEED EXTRA MONEY? 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper December 13, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545875686993-BJ3MOQ0Y6BRGHMTF6R6N/chasingthewhale_broadsides07_02162016_1581t.jpg Moby-Dick: Broadsides - Be Better Than The Best, Be Dynamic! / SALT WATER 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper February 16, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545875764327-2I9KCVXA72T1AHG4FDX0/chasingthewhale_broadsides08_03142016_1590t.jpg Moby-Dick: Broadsides - This Can Be Your "Big Break" / SEND IT TO SUBBY 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper March 14, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545875811962-OSWAH1YGMMAN73PUKN9M/chasingthewhale_broadsides09_03162016_1591t.jpg Moby-Dick: Broadsides - The KILLER... / The Power 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper March 16, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545875926362-4NJZAUIQSDAW5YCARN25/chasingthewhale_broadsides10_03202016_1592t.jpg Moby-Dick: Broadsides - OVERWHELMING / You Will All Die In Pain. 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper March 20, 2016 https://www.matt-kish.com/only-the-dead daily 0.75 2018-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545876061458-0N8TCO8Q721F1Y7Y702I/onlythedead001_protesilaus_05292017_1781.jpg Only the Dead - Protesilaus 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper May 29, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545876061458-0N8TCO8Q721F1Y7Y702I/onlythedead001_protesilaus_05292017_1781.jpg Only the Dead - Protesilaus 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper May 29, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545876108907-FJIQET5W3KE4PCX06ZU7/onlythedead002_echepolus_05302017_1782.jpg Only the Dead - Echepolus 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper May 30, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545876141033-IF6UFK6OZ963A9SD46SK/onlythedead003_elephenor_06012017_1783.jpg Only the Dead - Elephenor 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper June 1, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545876182399-Q7QM1ZZUA1Z554YZM2K3/onlythedead004_simoisius_06022017_1784.jpg Only the Dead - Simoisius 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint, ballpoint pen and collage on found paper June 2, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545876241767-VEYUWW1MQU29VDZ8HBYN/onlythedead005_leukos_06172017_1788.jpg Only the Dead - Leukos 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper June 17, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545876265883-BR4QLLCS3W4J2I3N69WA/onlythedead006_democoon_08052017_1839.jpg Only the Dead - Democoon 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper August 5, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545876306999-1VU4TYHQ3UR1TY4EBHWL/onlythedead007_diores_08062017_1840.jpg Only the Dead - Diores 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper August 5, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545876336396-X1ET18SFOVQS5BBNO7RS/onlythedead008_pirous_08112017_1842.jpg Only the Dead - Pirous 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper August 11, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545876374948-C4SX2OIS79EW6VSAJN5O/onlythedead009_phegeusandidaeus_08132017_1843.jpg Only the Dead - Phegeus and Idaeus 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper August 13, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545876414150-H5R1XB8QW6P350E4KWNB/onlythedead010_odios_09182017_1854.jpg Only the Dead - Odios 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper September 18, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545876462415-58HRW9LEGMYQQWYX8NT0/onlythedead011_phaestus_09212017_1855.jpg Only the Dead - Phaestus 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper September 21, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545876505449-O0A045ZHWKXHX4DTJUKS/onlythedead013_pherecles_10102017_1876.jpg Only the Dead - Pherecles 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper October 10, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545876538224-W0W5CT7Q197EDVV2Q8FE/onlythedead014_pedaeus_10102017_1877.jpg Only the Dead - Pedaeus 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper October 10, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545876585046-RDJFB1SU8ITU0LMM1KI6/onlythedead015_hypsenor_10122017_1880.jpg Only the Dead - Hypsenor 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper October 12, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545876654201-ZTKXO2ZTOBGP4HSF7SQO/onlythedead018_deicoon_10142017_1887.jpg Only the Dead - Deicoon 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper October 14, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545876764414-V35U1QIBY2KPLSNIEK1U/onlythedead019_orsilochusandcrethon_10152017_1889.jpg Only the Dead - Orsilochus and Crethon 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper October 15, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1545876812598-RQGW97HZ3OJLAC45T95O/onlythedead020_pylaemenesandmydon_10152017_1890.jpg Only the Dead - Pylaemenes and Mydon 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper October 15, 2017 https://www.matt-kish.com/dantesinferno daily 1.0 2021-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1615744157619-G2OGD4TQSPKJSS9XU0DM/oifepodi001_04212019_2132.jpg Dante's Inferno - DANTE'S INFERNO, CANTO I, illustration 1 11.75 x 8 inches acrylic paint, collage and ink on found paper April 21, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1615744157619-G2OGD4TQSPKJSS9XU0DM/oifepodi001_04212019_2132.jpg Dante's Inferno - DANTE'S INFERNO, CANTO I, illustration 1 11.75 x 8 inches acrylic paint, collage and ink on found paper April 21, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1615744299717-RIXDPWDZL6NFZ48ZPD4P/oifepodi005_05082019_2137.jpg Dante's Inferno - DANTE'S INFERNO, CANTO II, illustration 1 9.75 x 7.5 inches acrylic paint, collage and ink on found paper May 8, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1615745174450-57B589FC47LVCOJA77DH/oifepodi011_03272020_2220.jpg Dante's Inferno - DANTE'S INFERNO, CANTO III, illustration 3 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper March 27, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1615745322501-R3IDA0DK9EWN2O54DFRL/oifepodi014_04072020_2223.jpg Dante's Inferno - DANTE'S INFERNO, CANTO IV, illustration 2 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint, collage and ink on found paper April 7, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1615745486910-OAPQU6FV0HETY7OMF4K3/oifepodi019_04172020_2228.jpg Dante's Inferno - DANTE'S INFERNO, CANTO V, illustration 3 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper April 17, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1615745598513-9TY7KNN08M2UB07GULMI/oifepodi021_04212020_2230.jpg Dante's Inferno - DANTE'S INFERNO, CANTO VI, illustration 1 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper April 21, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1615745715401-JHDDVTG63RBC77A4L858/oifepodi026_07162020_2258.jpg Dante's Inferno - DANTE'S INFERNO, CANTO VII, illustration 2 10.875 x 15.75 inches acrylic paint, collage and ink on found paper July 16, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1615746588988-VCAK8IJ1CD0FQ5J5QKVT/oifepodi031_09052020_2270.jpg Dante's Inferno - DANTE'S INFERNO, CANTO VIII, illustration 3 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint and collage on found paper September 5, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1615746043742-AMX9B2B1QDCNV16046R2/oifepodi033_09092020_2272.jpg Dante's Inferno - DANTE'S INFERNO, CANTO IX, illustration 1 12.25 x 10.5 inches acrylic paint, collage and ink on found paper September 9, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1615746161930-H7JJFTA7MUFI2S8H7CFD/oifepodi038_09252020_2277.jpg Dante's Inferno - DANTE'S INFERNO, CANTO X, illustration 2 15.75 x 10.875 inches acrylic paint, collage and ink on found paper September 25, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fdcb3f4d088ed3e96efa23/1615746370756-S7N7MK9Z2Z0M8EI10P2B/oifepodi042_10092020_2281.jpg Dante's Inferno - 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