Tristin Lowe: Mocha Dick July 13, 2010

Over fifty feet long and ten feet high, Tristin Lowe's sculpture of a ghostly white sperm whale sprawls across the museum's largest gallery. 'Mocha Dick' is a life-sized rendition of the infamous leviathan that once harassed sailing ships near Mocha Island in the South Pacific Ocean. Described as having flesh as "white as wool," the whale Mocha Dick was also the inspiration for Herman Melville's 1851 novel 'Moby Dick'.