INFERNO, Canto XXIV, illustration 4

Title: "I am Vanni Fucci, the beast. A mule among men,

I chose the bestial life above the human.

Savage Pistoia was my fitting den."

15.75 x 10.75 inches

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December 30, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XXIV, illustration 3

Title: Precisely so, philosophers declare,

the Phoenix dies and then is born again

when it approaches its five hundredth year.

10.75 x 15.75 inches

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December 30, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XXIV, illustration 2

Title: and there great coils of serpents met my sight,

so hideous a mass that even now

the memory makes my blood run cold with fright.

15.75 x 10.75 inches

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December 26, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XXIV, illustration 1

Title: Like one who works and calculates ahead,

and is always ready for what happens next --

so, raising me above that dismal bed

to the top of one great slab of the fallen slate,

he chose another saying: "Climb here, but first

test it to see if it will hold your weight."

10.875 x 7.5 inches

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December 26, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XXIII, illustration 4

Title: My Guide stood there

motionless for a while with a dark look.

At last he said: "He lied about this business,

who spears the sinners yonder with his hook."

10.125 x 6.375 inches

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December 24, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XXIII, illustration 3

Title: Naked he lies fixed there, as you see,

in the path of all those who pass; there he must feel

the weight of all through all eternity.

10.675 x 12.25 inches

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December 23, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XXIII, illustration 2

Title: All wore great cloaks cut to as ample a size

as those worn by the Benedictines of Cluny.

The enormous hoods were drawn over their eyes.

The outside is all dazzle, golden and fair;

the inside, lead, so heavy that Frederick's capes, 

compared to these, would seem as light as air."

12.25 x 10.5 inches

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December 22, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XXIII, illustration 1

Title: Already I felt my scalp grow tight with fear.

I was staring back in terror as I said:

"Master, unless we find concealment here

and soon, I dread the rage of the Fiends: already

they are yelping on our trail: I imagine them

so vividly I can hear them now."

7.125 x 10.125 inches

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December 20, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XXI, illustration 4 (alternate version)

Title: They turned along the left bank in a line;

but before they started, all of them together

had stuck their pointed tongues out as a sign

to their Captain that they wished permission to pass,

and he had made a trumpet of his ass.

12.25 x 10.5 inches

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December 19, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XXII, illustration 4

Title: …terror pressed

harder than wings; the sinner dove from sight

and the Fiend in full flight had to raise his breast.

A duck, when the falcon dives, will disappear

exactly so, all in a flash, while he

returns defeated and weary up the air.

10.5 x 7.875 inches

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December 19, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XIX, illustration 4 (alternate version)

Title: Of such as you was the Evangelist's vision

when he saw She Who Sits upon the Waters

locked with the Kings of earth in fornication.

She was born with seven heads, and ten enormous

and shining horns…

12.25 x 10.5 inches

acrylic paint, collage, and pencil on found paper
December 17, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XXII, illustration 3

Title: And the wretch: "It was the shade

of Friar Gomita of Gallura, the crooked stem

of every Fraud: when his master's enemies

were in his hands, he won high praise from them.

He took their money without case or docket

and let them go. He was in all his dealings

no petty bursar, but a kingly pocket."

12 x 8.5 inches

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December 17, 2025

INFERNO, Canto V, illustration 3 (alternate version)

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

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December 17, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XXII, illustration 2

Title: The mouse had come among bad cats, but here

Curlybeard locked arms around him crying:

"While I've got hold of him the rest stand clear!"

And turning his face to my Guide: "If you want to ask him

anything else," he added, "ask away
before the others tear him limb from limb." 

12.25 x 10.5 inches

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December 15, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XXII, illustration 1

Title: I saw -- the dread of it haunts me to this day --

one linger a bit too long, as it sometimes happens

one frog remains when another spurts away;

and Catclaw, who was nearest, ran a hook

through the sinner's pitchy hair and hauled him in.

He looked like an otter dripping from the brook.

14.75 x 10.75 inches

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December 14, 2025

INFERNO, Canto IV, illustration 2 (alternate version)

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
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December 13, 2025

INFERNO, Canto II, illustration 2 (alternate version)

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
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December 13, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XXI, illustration 4

Title: They turned along the left bank in a line;

but before they started, all of them together

had stuck their pointed tongues out as a sign

to their Captain that they wished permission to pass,

and he had made a trumpet of his ass.

11.875 x 8.5 inches

acrylic paint, collage, and watercolor on found paper
December 6, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XXI, illustration 3

Title: Crazyred

14.75 x 10.75 inches

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December 5, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XXI, illustration 2

Title: Then they raked him with more than a hundred hooks

bellowing: "Here you dance below the covers,

Graft all you can there: no one checks your books."

They dipped him down into that pitch exactly

as a chef makes scullery boys dip meat in a boiler,

holding it with their hooks from floating free."

14.75 x 10.75 inches

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December 1, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XXI, illustration 1

Title: …I saw a figure that came running toward us

across the ridge, a Demon huge and black.

Ah what a face he had, all hate and wildness!

Galloping so, with his great wings outspread

he seemed the embodiment of all bitterness.

12.25 x 10.5 inches

acrylic paint, collage, and watercolor on found paper
November 30, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XX, illustration 4

Title: And he: "That one whose beard spreads like a fleece

over his swarthy shoulders, was an augur

in the days when so few males remained in Greece

that even the cradles were all but empty of sons.

14.75 x 10.75 inches

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November 29, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XX, illustration 3

Title: Over those whited bones they raised the city,

and for her who had chosen the place before all others

they named it -- with no further augury -- 

Mantua.

8.25 x 10.75 inches

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November 28, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XX, illustration 2

Title: And see Tiresias, who by his arts

succeeded in changing himself from man to woman,

transforming all his limbs and all his parts;

later he had to strike the two twined serpents

once again with his conjurer's wand before

he could resume his manly lineaments.

14.75 x 10.75 inches

acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
November 27, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XX, illustration 1

Title: And when I looked down from their faces, I saw

that each of them was hideously distorted

between the top of the chest and the lines of the jaw; 

for the face was reversed on the neck, and they came on

backwards, staring backwards at their loins,

for to look before them was forbidden.

12 x 8.75 inches

acrylic paint and collage on found paper
November 26, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XIX, illustration 4

Title: Of such as you was the Evangelist's vision

when he saw She Who Sits upon the Waters

locked with the Kings of earth in fornication.

She was born with seven heads, and ten enormous

and shining horns…

12.25 x 10.5 inches

acrylic paint and collage on found paper
November 23, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XIX, illustration 3

Title: I said: "Indeed! Now tell me how much cash

our Lord required of Peter in guarantee

before he put the keys into his keeping?

Surely he asked nothing but 'Follow me!'"

12.25 x 10.5 inches

acrylic paint and collage on found paper
November 22, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XIX, illustration 2

Title: "If to know who I am drive you so fearfully

that you descend the bank to ask it, know

that the Great Mantle was once hung upon me.

And in truth I was a son of the She-Bear

so sly and eager to push my whelps ahead,

that I pursed wealth above, and myself here.

Beneath my head are dragged all who have gone

before me in buying and selling holy office;

there they cower in fissures of the stone."

12.25 x 10.5 inches

acrylic paint, collage, and watercolor on found paper
November 10, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XIX, illustration 1

Title: From every mouth a sinner's legs stuck out

as far as the calf. The soles were all ablaze

and the joints of the legs quivered and writhed about.

12.25 x 10.5 inches

acrylic paint and collage on found paper
October 15, 2025

INFERNO, Canto XVIII, illustration 4

Title: I saw among the felons of that pit

one wraith who might or might not have been tonsured --

one could not tell, he was so smeared with shit.

12 x 8.875 inches

acrylic paint and collage on found paper
October 13, 2025