WORDS BY MELVILLE
Made in response to an invitation to participate in programming honoring whaling and Herman Melville’s Moby Dick at the outermost Cape Cod town of Provincetown. All texts are from Moby Dick, hand printed in letterpress with watercolor on encyclopedia and dictionary pages laid down on paper. They have been Exhibited in whale exhibitions in Provincetown in 2016 & 17.
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal…, 2016, ink and watercolor on paper, 15 x 11 inches
...An utterly fearless man..., 2016, ink and watercolor on paper, 15 x 11 inches
...Where lies the final harbor..., 2016, ink and watercolor on paper, 15 x 11 inches
...Domed like St. Peters!, 2016, ink and watercolor on paper, 11 x 15 inches
For there is no folly..., 2016, ink and watercolor on paper, 10 3/4 x 8 inches