midweek blues

Boat Place - my interpretation of a site of the Franklin expedition, found in 1859.

“The boat was partially out of her cradle upon the sledge, and lying in such a position as to lead me to suppose it the effect of a violent north-west gale. […] There was in the boat that which transfixed us with awe, viz., portions of two human skeletons! One was that of a slight young person; the other of a large, strongly-made, middle-aged man. The former was found in the bow of the boat, but in too much disturbed a state to enable [us] to judge whether the sufferer had died there. […] The other skeleton was in a somewhat more perfect state; it lay across the boat, under the after-thwart, and was enveloped with cloths and furs. This would seem to have been the survivor of the two men whose remains were lying in the boat. Close beside it were found five watches; and there were two double-barrelled guns — one barrel in each loaded and cocked — standing muzzle upwards against the boat’s side.”

(From: “The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas” by Francis Leopold McClintock)

SPOILER: In Dan Simmon’s “The Terror”, it’s Hickey and Manson who end up in this boat.

Watercolor on paper, A3 size.

Trapping Cornelius Hickey on a whaling boat with Henry Drax: who will eat the other first? 

THE EXPANSE SEASON 6 EPISODE 2

art imitating art