Peter Santino

LADY-FAME; or, The Fluke Peter Santino

On Christmas Eve, 1972, the commercial fishing vessel, LADY-FAME was struck and capsized by a fifty foot rogue wave while crossing the Humboldt Bay bar. Contemporary artist, Peter Santino was a crew member and wrote fifty thousand words during the months following, describing every thought and action that occurred, with no embellishment or clever trickery in a attempt to create a record of Truth. Now, some forty years later, and after re-reading Moby-Dick, Santino has used that original manuscript (aged and matured) as the core of a new work that is expanded, more encompassing, and may include some embellishment and clever trickery: LADY-FAME; or, The Fluke.