INFERNO, Canto XXXI, illustration 3

Title: "Rafel mahee amek zabi almit,"

began a bellowed chant from the brute mouth

for which no sweeter psalmody was fit.

And my Guide in his direction: "Babbling fool,

stick to your horn and vent yourself with it

when rage or passion stir your stupid soul."

10.875 x 15.5 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
April 19, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXI, illustration 2

Title: Then taking my hand in his, my Master said:

"The better to prepare you for strange truth,

let me explain those shapes you see ahead:

they are not towers but giants. They stand in the well

from the navel down; and stationed round its bank

they mount guard on the final pit of Hell."

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
April 17, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXXI, illustration 1

Title: And as I stared through that obscurity,

I saw what seemed a cluster of great towers,

whereat I cried: "Master, what is this city?"

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
April 13, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXX, illustration 4

Title: "…and never forget that I am always by you

should it occur again, as we walk on…"

12.25 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
April 6, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXX, illustration 3

Title: And then I saw another husk of sin,

who, had his legs been trimmed away at the groin,

would have looked for all the world like a mandolin.

12 x 8.75 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
April 5, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXX, illustration 2

Title: …two I saw, pale, naked, and unclean,

who suddenly came running toward us then,

snapping their teeth as they ran, like hungry swine

let out to feed after a night in the pen.

10.875 x 7.875 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
March 23, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXX, illustration 1

Title: Hecuba -- mourning, wretched, and a slave --

having seen Polyxena sacrificed,

and Polydorus dead without a grave;

lost and alone, beside an alien sea,

began to bark and growl like a dog

in the mad seizure of her misery.

12.25 x 10.5 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
April 1, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXIX, illustration 4

Title: "So you will see I am the suffering shadow

of Capocchio, who, by practicing alchemy

falsified the metals…"

10.875 x 7.875 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
March 14, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXIX, illustration 3

Title: "I am a shade," my Guide and Master said…

15.75 x 10.875 inches
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March 9, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXIX, illustration 2

Title: I saw two there like two pans that are put

one against the other to hold their warmth.

They were covered with great scabs from head to foot.

12 x 8.5 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
March 8, 2026

INFERNO, Canto XXIX, illustration 1

Title: …and from those dead

such shrieks and strangled agonies shrilled through me

like shafts, but barbed with pity that my hands

flew to my ears.

12.25 x 10.5 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
March 4, 2026