INFERNO, Canto VIII, illustration 2

Title: And shortly after, I saw the loathesome spirit

so mangled by a swarm of muddy wraiths

that to this day I praise and thank God for it.

"After Filippo Argenti!" all cried together. 

The maddog Florentine wheeled at their cry

and bit himself for rage.

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
August 7, 2020

image 2263

INFERNO, Canto VIII, illustration 1

Title: Returning to my theme, I say we came

to the foot of a Great Tower; but long before

we reached it through the marsh, two horns of flame

flared from the summit, one from either side

and then, far off, so far we could scarce see it

across the mist, another flame replied.

11.25 x 10.75 inches
collage and ink on found paper
August 4, 2020

image 2262

INFERNO, Canto VII, illustration 4

Title: They thumped at one another in that slime

with hands and feet, and they butted, and they bit

as if each would tear the other limb from limb.

11.75 x 12.25 inches
acrylic paint and collage on LP cover
July 28, 2020

image 2260

INFERNO, Canto VII, illustration 3

Title: No mortal power may stay her spinning wheel.

The nations rise and fall by her decree. 

None may foresee where she will set her heel…

15.75 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
July 23, 2020

image 2259

INFERNO, Canto VII, illustration 2

Title: Here, too, I saw a nation of lost souls,

far more than were above: they strained their chests

against enormous weights, and with mad howls

rolled them at one another. Then in haste

they rolled them back, one party shouting out:

"Why do you hoard?" and the other: "Why do you waste?"

10.875 x 15.75 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
July 16, 2020

image 2258

INFERNO, Canto VII, illustration 1

Title: "Papa Satan, Papa Satan, aleppy,"

Plutus clucked and stuttered in his rage…

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
July 8, 2020

image 2257

INFERNO, Canto VI, illustration 4

Title: And so we walked the rim of the great ledge

speaking of pain and joy, and of much more

that I will not repeat, and reached the edge

where the descent begins.

10.875 x 15.5 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
July 6, 2020

image 2256

INFERNO, Canto VI, illustration 3

Title: And my Guide to me: "He will not wake again

until the angel trumpet sounds the day

on which the host shall come to judge all men…"

10.875 x 15.5 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
April 26, 2020

image 2232

INFERNO, Canto VI, illustration 2

Title: Your citizens nicknamed me Ciacco, the Hog:

gluttony was my offense, and for it

I lie here rotting like a swollen log.

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
April 24, 2020

image 2231

INFERNO, Canto VI, illustration 1

Title: Here monstrous Cerberus, the ravening beast,

howls through his triple throats like a mad dog

over the spirits sunk in that foul paste.

10.875 x 15.5 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
April 21, 2020

image 2230

INFERNO, Canto V, illustration 4

Title: …I felt my senses reel

and faint away with anguish. I was swept

by such a swoon as death is, and I fell

as a corpse might fall, to the dead floor of Hell.

8.5 x 5.25 inches
acrylic paint, ink, and collage on found paper
April 18, 2020

image 2229

INFERNO, Canto V, illustration 3

Title: Thus, as soon as the wind in its wild course

brought them around, I called: "O wearied souls!

if none forbid it, pause and speak to us."

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
April 17, 2020

image 2228

INFERNO, Canto V, illustration 2

Title: "The first of these whose history you would know,"

he answered me, "was Empress of many tongues.

Mad sensuality corrupted her so

that to hide the guilt of her debauchery

she licenced all depravity alike,

and lust and law were one in her decree."

13.5 x 10 inches
collage on found paper
April 15, 2020

image 2227

INFERNO, Canto V, illustration 1

Title: There Minos sits, grinning, grotesque, and hale. 

He examines each lost soul as it arrives

and delivers his verdict with his coiling tail.

10.875 x 15.5 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
April 14, 2020

image 2226

INFERNO, Canto IV, illustration 4

Title: ...At last

we reached the base of a great Citadel

circled by seven towering battlements

and by a sweet brook flowing round them all.

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
April 11, 2020

image 2225

INFERNO, Canto IV, illustration 3

Title: "Note well," my Master said as they came on,

"that soul that leads the rest with sword in hand

as if he were their captain and champion.

It is Homer, singing master of the earth."

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
April 10, 2020

image 2224

INFERNO, Canto IV, illustration 2

Title: "I was still new to this estate of tears

when a Mighty One descended here among us,

crowned with the sign of His victorious years."

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
April 7, 2020

image 2223

INFERNO, Canto IV, illustration 1

Title: Death-pale, the poet spoke: "Now let us go

into the blind world waiting here below us.

I will lead the way and you shall follow."

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
March 30, 2020

image 2222

INFERNO, Canto III, illustration 4

Title: ...Blind,

like one whom sleep comes over in a swoon

I stumbled into darkness and went down.

7.5 x 9.75 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
March 30, 2020

image 2221

INFERNO, Canto III, illustration 3

Title: There, steering toward us in an ancient ferry

came an old man with a white bush of hair

bellowing: "Woe to you depraved souls! Bury

here and forever all hope of Paradise."

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
March 27, 2020

image 2220

INFERNO, Canto III, illustration 2

Title: I saw a banner there upon the mist.

Circling and circling, it seemed to scorn all pause.

So it ran on, and still behind it pressed

a never-ending rout of souls in pain.

10.875 x 15.5 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
March 24, 2020

image 2219

INFERNO, Canto III, illustration 1

Title: ONLY THOSE ELEMENTS TIME CANNOT WEAR

WERE MADE BEFORE ME, AND BEYOND TIME I STAND.

ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE.

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
March 23, 2020

image 2218

INFERNO, Canto II, illustration 4

Title: Lucia, that soul of light and foe of all

cruelty, rose and came to me at once

where I was sitting with the ancient Rachel.

11.75 x 8 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
June 9, 2019

image 2157

INFERNO, Canto II, illustration 3

Title: "I am so made by God's all-seeing mercy

your anguish does not touch me, and the flame

of this great burning has no power upon me."

10.875 x 7.75 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
May 14, 2019

image 2139

INFERNO, Canto II, illustration 2

Title: Her eyes were kindled from the lamps of Heaven. 

Her voice reached through me, tender, sweet, and low. 

An angel's voice, a music of its own...

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
May 13, 2019

image 2138

INFERNO, Canto II, illustration 1

Title: Thus I began: "Poet, you who must guide me,

before you trust me to that arduous passage,

look to me and look through me - can I be worthy?"

9.75 x 7.5 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
May 8, 2019

image 2137

INFERNO, Canto I, illustration 4

Title: There you shall see the ancient spirits tried

in endless pain, and hear their lamentation

as each bemoans the second death of souls.

15.5 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
April 30, 2019

image 2135

INFERNO, Canto I, illustration 3

Title: And as I fell to my soul's ruin, a presence

gathered before me on the discolored air,

the figure of one who seemed hoarse from long silence.

15..5 x 10.875 inches

acrylic paint and collage on found paper

April 28, 2019

image 2134

INFERNO, Canto I, illustration 2

Title: I wavered back; and still the beast pursued,

forcing herself against me bit by bit

till I slid back into the sunless wood.

11.75 x 8 inches

acrylic paint and collage on found paper

April 26, 2019

image 2133

INFERNO, Canto I, illustration 1

Title: Midway in our life's journey, I went astray

from the straight road and woke to find myself

alone in a dark wood.

11.75 x 8 inches

acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper

April 21, 2019

image 2132

ENCANTADAS and BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER

Pages 104, 105, 106, and 107.
December 28 and 29, 2019.
Image 2210.

ENCANTADAS and BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER

Pages 100, 101, 102, and 103.
December 27 and 28, 2019.
Image 2209.

ENCANTADAS and BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER

Pages 098 and 099.
December 27, 2019.
Image 2208.

ENCANTADAS and BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER

Pages 096 and 097.
December 27, 2019.
Image 2207.

ENCANTADAS and BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER

Pages 094 and 095.
December 27, 2019.
Image 2206.