Roger Peet

Roger Peet
Take to the Ship
$22

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This print was commissioned by the illustrious Amy Harwood of Signal Fire fame to accompany and promote a wondrous event: Take To The Ship, Portland, Oregon's full, live 36-hour reading of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. For those woefully unfamiliar with the work, Moby Dick is an epic tale of whaling, obsession, and the natural history of a dead way of life. It's themes of hubris and the human war against nature resonate just as vividly today as they have ever done. In this print, Captain Ahab sits bereft, unable to free himself from his mania, lashed by his defeats to a fate that will drag him all the way down to the dark of the benthos. The purpose of the hunt, the abstraction of Sperm Whales into sources of light, heat, fashion, and fragrance has vanished and all that is left is a man who refuses to be defeated by nature. Nature, however, cares little for what he thinks.

2-color Screenprint from blockprint
Mr. French acid-free paper
17" x 12.5"
Signed, numbered edition of 50