Cutting in

Mixed media, 51'4" x 38' x 13'6"
Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways
Mississippi River watershed vector map: Nelson Minar
Transocean Deepwater Nautilus: Ultra-deepwater semi-submersible
Undiscovered Arctic oil and gas combined: USGS

Furthermore: concerning these last mentioned Leviathans, they have two firm fortresses, which, in all human probability, will for ever remain impregnable... so, hunted from the savannas and glades of the middle seas, the whale-bone whales can at last resort to their Polar citadels, and diving under the ultimate glassy barriers and walls there, come up among icy fields and floes; and in a charmed circle of everlasting December, bid defiance to all pursuit from man.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville, 1851
(Chapter 105 - Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish? Will He Perish?)

Gratitude to Keith Kaziak and Barbara Justice, boat courtesy of William Courtenay

Backspace Gallery, University of Wisconsin - Madison