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

acrylic paint on found paper
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

acrylic paint and collage on found paper
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
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
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
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
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

acrylic paint and watercolor on found paper
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

acrylic paint and collage on found paper
December 1, 2025