Thursday, March 3, 2022

INFERNO, Canto XVIII, illustration 3

Title: "Look there, at that great soul that approaches
and seems to shed no tear for all his pain -

what kingliness moves with him even in Hell!
It is Jason, who by courage and good advice
made off with the Colchian Ram."

10 x 7.125 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
March 3, 2022



Wednesday, March 2, 2022

INFERNO, Canto XVIII, illustration 2

Title: And everywhere along that hideous track
I saw horned demons with enormous lashes
move through those souls, scourging them on the back.

10 x 7.125 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
March 2, 2022



Friday, September 24, 2021

INFERNO, Canto XVIII, illustration 1

Title: The border that remains between the well-pit
and the great cliff forms an enormous circle,
and ten descending troughs are cut in it,

offering a general prospect like the ground
that lies around one of those ancient castles
whose walls are girded many times around

by concentric moats. And just as, from the portal,
the castle's bridges run from moat to moat
to the last bank; so from the great rock wall

across the embankments and the ditches, high
and narrow cliffs run to the central well,
which cuts and gathers them like radii.

8.5 x 11.25 inches
acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper
September 23, 2021