INFERNO, Canto XXVIII, illustration 3

Title: And one among them with both arms hacked through

cried out, raising his stumps on the foul air

while the blood bedaubed his face…

12 x 8.75 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
February 21, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVIII, illustration 2

Title: Another -- he had his throat slit, and his nose

slashed off as far as the eyebrows, and a wound

where one of his ears had been -- standing with those

who stared at me in wonder from the pit,

opened the grinning wound of his red gullet

as if it were a mouth...

12 x 8.75 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and watercolor on found paper
February 20, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVIII, illustration 1

Title: Behind us, warden of our mangled horde,

the devil who butchers us and sends us marching

waits to renew our wounds with his long sword

when we have made the circuit of the pit;

for by the time we stand again before him

all the wounds he gave us last have knit.

10 x 12.25 inches
acrylic paint, ink, and watercolor on found paper
February 17, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVII, illustration 4

Title: And so it left, and we

crossed over to the arch of the next fosse

where from the iron treasury of the Lord

the fee of wrath is paid to the Sowers of Discord.

9.25 x 10.875 inches
collage, graphite, and ink on found paper
February 14, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVII, illustration 3

Title: "Later, when I was dead, St. Francis came

to claim my soul, but one of the Black Angels

said: 'Leave him. Do not wrong me. This one's name

went into my book the moment he resolved

to give false counsel.'"

12.25 x 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, collage, ink, and watercolor on found paper
February 8, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVII, illustration 2

Title: "Polenta's eagles brood

over her walls, and their pinions cover Cervia. 

The city that so valiantly withstood

the French, and raised a mountain of their dead,

feels the Green Claws again. Still in Verrucchio

the Aged Mastiff and his Pup, who shed

Montagna's blood, raven in their old ranges.

The cities of Lamone and Santerno

are led by the white den's Lion, he who changes

his politics with the compass."

12.25 x 10 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
February 7, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVII, illustration 1

Title: Now, as it left us

with the sweet Poet's license, another came

along that track and our attention turned

to the new flame: a strange and muffled roar

rose from the single tip to which it burned.

11.875 x 9 inches
acrylic paint, collage, ink, and watercolor on found paper
February 6, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVI, illustration 4

Title: "…we sighted, dark in space, a peak so tall

I doubted any man had seen the like."

15.5 x 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
January 30, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVI, illustration 3

Title: "Master," I said, "your words make me more sure,

but I had seen already that it was so

and meant to ask what spirit must endure

the pains of that great flame which splits away

in two great horns, as if it rose from the pyre

where Eteocles and Polynices lay?"

He answered me: "Forever round this path

Ulysses and Diomede move in such dress

united in pain as they once were in wrath..."

12.25 x 10.5 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and watercolor on found paper
January 26, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVI, illustration 2

Title: I stood on the bridge, and leaned out from the edge;

so far, that but for a jut of rock I held to

I should have been sent hurtling from the ledge

without being pushed.

17 x 11 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
January 25, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXVI, illustration 1

Title: I mourned among those rocks, and I mourn again

when memory returns to what I saw…

11.25 x 8.75 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
January 24, 2026