Whales and books
I've been thinking about whales-- I'm not sure why. I remembered this drawing that I came upon in a magazine back in the days of my little black book collages. Can Leviathan Long endure so Wide a Chase? I was entranced and then haunted by this strange image but I didn't explore it. that was before I knew about the internet and Google. But this week I googled the title and learned that it's a quote from Moby Dick. “the moot point is, whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc; whether he must not at last be exterminated from the waters, and the last whale, like the last man, smoke his last pipe, and then himself evaporate in the final puff.” I also looked up the artist, Cynthia A. Osborne and found a lot of her work but not this one. Sad to say, she died in 2018. I'd love to learn more about this image--it's a lithograph. What are those women doing? Dancing? Exercising? Why are are the people rushing to ...