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

acrylic paint and collage on found paper

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

acrylic paint and collage on found paper

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

acrylic paint and collage on found paper
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

acrylic paint and collage on found paper

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

acrylic paint and collage on found paper
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

acrylic paint and collage on found paper
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

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