Thursday, March 3, 2022

INFERNO, Canto XVIII, illustration 3

Title: "Look there, at that great soul that approaches
and seems to shed no tear for all his pain -
what kingliness moves with him even in Hell!
It is Jason, who by courage and good advice
made off with the Colchian Ram."

10 x 7.125 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
March 3, 2022



Wednesday, March 2, 2022

INFERNO, Canto XVIII, illustration 2

Title: And everywhere along that hideous track
I saw horned demons with enormous lashes
move through those souls, scourging them on the back.

10 x 7.125 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
March 2, 2022



Friday, September 24, 2021

INFERNO, Canto XVIII, illustration 1

Title: The border that remains between the well-pit
and the great cliff forms an enormous circle,
and ten descending troughs are cut in it,
offering a general prospect like the ground
that lies around one of those ancient castles
whose walls are girded many times around
by concentric moats. And just as, from the portal,
the castle's bridges run from moat to moat
to the last bank; so from the great rock wall
across the embankments and the ditches, high
and narrow cliffs run to the central well,
which cuts and gathers them like radii.

8.5 x 11.25 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
September 23, 2021



Wednesday, September 22, 2021

INFERNO, Canto XVII, illustration 4

Title: …I leaned my head out and stared into Hell.
I trembled again at the prospect of dismounting
and cowered in on myself, for I saw fires
on every hand, and I heard a long lamenting.

10 x 7.125 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
September 22, 2021



Sunday, September 19, 2021

INFERNO, Canto XVII, illustration 3

Title: Slowly, slowly he swims on through space,
wheels and descends, but I can sense it only
by the way the wind blows upward past my face.

14.75 x 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
September 19, 2021



Saturday, September 18, 2021

INFERNO, Canto XVII, illustration 2

Title: I examined several faces there among
that sooty throng, and I saw none I knew;
but I observed that from each neck there hung
an enormous purse, each marked with its own beast
and its own colors like a coat of arms.
On these their streaming eyes appeared to feast.

11 x 8.25 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
September 17, 2021