INFERNO, Canto XV, illustration 1

Title: …a company of shades came into sight

walking beside the bank. They stared at us

as men at evening by the new moon's light

stare at one another when they pass by

on a dark road…

10.25 x 7.5 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
December 15, 2020

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INFERNO, Canto XIV, illustration 4

Title: "…the unburning margins form a lane

and by them we may cross the burning plain."

11.75 x 8.25 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
December 10, 2020

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INFERNO, Canto XIV, illustration 3

Title: His head is made of gold; of silverwork

his breast and both his arms, of polished brass

the rest of his great torso to the fork.

He is of chosen iron from there down,

except that his right foot is terra cotta;

it is this foot he rests more weight upon.

Every part except the gold is split

by a great fissure from which endless tears

drip down and hollow out the mountain's pit.

15.75 x 10.875 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
December 7, 2020

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INFERNO, Canto XIV, illustration 2

Title: At this my Guide spoke with such vehemence

as I had not heard from him in all of Hell:

"O Capaneus, by your insolence

you are made to suffer as much fire inside

as falls upon you. Only your own rage

could be fit torment for your sullen pride."

10.75 x 12.25 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
December 3, 2020

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INFERNO, Canto XIV, illustration 1

Title: And over all that sand on which they lay

or crouched or roamed, great flakes of flame fell slowly

as snow falls in the Alps on a windless day.

10.875 x 15.75 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
November 30, 2020

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