The relationship between image-making and its underlying systems takes a different form in Depth Model, a large-scale acrylic painting produced with a custom-built plotter. The work’s point of departure is a passage from Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick that has long resonated with the artists as an instance of ekphrasis—the literary description of a visual artwork. Stable Diffusion was prompted to produce images of whaling ships, including interpretations of Melville’s fictional vessel, the Pequod, which were subsequently translated by the plotter into painting. The machine’s software reflects a parallel investigation into Neo-Expressionism, drawing on a dataset developed from art-historical sources. Depth Model brings together literary description, machine-generated imagery, and the gestural vocabulary of painting into a single material surface.