In 2004, while taking Dr. Robert K. Wallace's class "Melville and the Arts" at Northern Kentucky University, I read Moby-Dick for the fourth time, and began a series of work based on my responses to the novel. Melville's words continue to spread open the "floodgates of the wonder world" before me, and the series is ongoing.
The women of New Bedford: Captains' wives
The affidavit
Captains' wives
For those in peril in the sea
Call me Ishmael
H.M.
Pip: Alone
Pip: Surrender
Pip: Transcendence
Moby Dick: a mighty mildness
Tashtego
Fedallah
Daggo
Ahab: thou must not follow
Ahab: I'd strike the sun
A bosom friend
The Voyage of the Pequod
Queequeg in his own proper person
Queequeg in his own proper person (detail)
Queequeg: a wondrous work
Water and meditation are wedded forever
Unsolved to the last
Fast fish and loose fish
The women of New Bedford
From the headwaters of the Eternities
Loomings
Logbook map
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