Here is my "Whirlpool" painting as of July 3, 2024. This is for the upcoming art show based on Moby Dick at Porter Mill Studios. After looking at lots of images and videos, I finally began to apply more color, trying to suggest the movement of the water. Although this is not an attempt at a realistic image, I do want to suggest a whirlpool. The text is the final sentence of the last chapter of Melville's Moby Dick, describing the whirlpool swallowing up the Pequod.*
*"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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