This is my painting ("The Whirlpool") as it looked on July 13, 2024. At this point, I had sealed the edges, attached the wire, and signed it. I had turned the painting round and round, making a lot of small, possibly invisible, changes -- which I now recognize as a sign that the painting is finished. I painted this for a special "Moby Dick" show at Porter Mill Studios, and dropped it off over the weekend. At this point, the show is on display in the lobby. This is a representation of the whirlpool at the end of the novel that swallows up the Pequod and brings the narrative to a close -- apart from the epilogue. Spoiler alert: only Ishmael survives, The text is the final sentence of the last chapter: "And now concentric circles seized the lone boat itself and all its crew and each floating oar and every lancepole and spinning, animate and inanimate, all round and round in one vortex, carried the smallest chip of the Pequod out of sight."
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