Thursday, November 11, 2010

The Divine Comedy

Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante's Inferno



Dante’s Inferno has always had a great deal of influence in my writing. It is the type of literature I thrive to understand and conceptualize through, and now that I revisit it six years after I first read Virgil’s tale I am once again inspired by it.

There has been a great deal of emphasis in my thought process recently on the idea of gluttony and greed, and I now realize that I was revisiting my study of Dante. Graduate school is looming over me and I want to show each program that I have a cohesive vision in my work. I’ve decided to challenge myself in these two coming months to create a unified series based on the nine circles of hell. I can’t wait!

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