A Nantucket Pursuit: Geese Over the Leviathan

This striking dimensional work lives like sculpture—shifting as you move, revealing more with every glance. Built atop a vintage oil painting of a floral bouquet, its soft foundation lingers beneath layers of collage, memory, and myth.

Soaring geese and a collaged vision of Nantucket’s Main Street work in harmony to create a kind of mythic dreamscape—rooted in place, yet always in motion. Anchored by this stylized streetscape and fragments of vintage imagery, the piece nods to Moby-Dick—but here, the “Leviathan” isn’t a whale. It’s Nantucket itself: beautiful, unpredictable, and deeply powerful. The geese, symbols of freedom and instinct, rise above it—not in escape, but in graceful coexistence with something vast.

A bold, wooden sky-blue form juts from the frame like a whale’s tail, a harpoon, or a compass needle—reminding us that the pursuit of meaning often defies the boundaries we expect.

Echoing the artist’s own journey—leaving New York City in 2001 to build a life on the island—A Nantucket Pursuit is unapologetically original and alive with movement. It stretches past its own borders, reminding us that some stories need more than a frame to be told.

And in that stretch, it becomes a protest—for the right to define oneself beyond categories, beyond expectation. For anyone who’s been told to pick one path, this piece lifts its wings. Becoming, it reminds us, is the only true direction.