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Its lasting idea is the pyramid: bodies heaped at the base, the living climbing over them, and one man at the apex signaling a ship almost too small to see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe raft becomes a whaleboat, its sail in rags on a leaning mast at the left. A dead man lies across the bow in a shipmate's arms. The pyramid rises from there: a man in a dark coat pointing, a knot of bare shoulders in the middle, and at the top a figure balanced on the backs of the others, waving a shirt at a three-masted ship standing in under a break of yellow light. A quadrant and a barrel roll in the bilge. Everything in the boat leans toward that sail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelville read Chase's narrative at sea in 1841 and cited it by name in Moby-Dick. That book ends the way this painting begins: a sail coming up over the water toward whoever is left.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach piece is printed on 200 gsm enhanced uncoated fine art paper with a twelve-color pigment process, which holds a wider tonal range than ordinary four-color printing. The print is mounted and set behind shatter-resistant acrylic in a 22 mm deep frame — solid wood in white, natural or dark, or aluminum in black. 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