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, watercolor on printed paper, 15 x 11 inches
...An utterly fearless man..., 2016, ink, watercolor on printed paper, 15 x 11 inches
...Where lies the final harbor..., 2016, ink, watercolor on printed paper, 15 x 11 inches
...Domed like St. Peters!, 2016, ink, watercolor on printed paper, 11 x 15 inches
For there is no folly..., 2016, ink, watercolor on printed paper, 10 3/4 x 8 inches