INFERNO, Canto IX, illustration 1 (alternate versions)

Title: "Once before, it is true, I crossed through Hell

conjured by cruel Erichtho who recalled

the spirits to their bodies. Her dark spell

forced me, newly stripped of my mortal part,

to enter through this gate, and summon out

a spirit from Judaica."

12.25 x 10.5 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
January 9, 2026

INFERNO, Canto VIII, illustration 2 (alternate version)

Title: And shortly after, I saw the loathesome spirit

so mangled by a swarm of muddy wraiths

that to this day I praise and thank God for it.

"After Filippo Argenti!" all cried together. 

The maddog Florentine wheeled at their cry

and bit himself for rage.

15.75 x 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
January 5, 2026

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

acrylic paint, collage, and ink on found paper

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

acrylic paint on found paper

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

acrylic paint and collage on found paper

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

acrylic paint and collage on found paper

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

acrylic paint and collage on found paper

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

acrylic paint and collage on found paper

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

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