The picture below, a linocut, is from late 1979, when I was living in Providence, Rhode Island.
It was made from linoleum backed by a wooden block, and using a grooved, gouging-type tool (the only linocut I recall ever making). I made prints of the image using a small (and rather beautiful) manual printing press, a letterpress, that I had at the time.
The picture is of my cat Moby, who was a very small kitten when she came to live with me in 1977, two years before the picture was made. She was all-white (like Melville's whale; thus her name) and lived with me until 1994, when she died. I loved her very much.
(Image © Andrew Fielding)
