Return homeReferencing Dante Alighieri’s poem, the Divine Comedy and the visual vocabulary of the American suburb, Infernia is an architectural model of a community-center designed for the dead. Similar to when they are born, the souls that wake into this community-center find themselves in hospice, confused and afraid. Some are drawn to a light beyond the horizon while others are pulled towards the demons that plagued them while living. Each plinth in the landscape is my interpretation of some of the cantos in the Inferno portion of Alighieri’s poem. I started this artwork in summer and fall of 2019, not really understanding why I was making it, I was just going with what I kept seeing in my mind’s eye. In hindsight, given that there are no people in the installation and there is a hospice on the ground level, I under- stand it a lot more given the worlds current state.
This piece is underway, as I intend to build the entire Divine Comedy poem including the Inferno (seen in this documentation), Purgatorio and Paradiso. In the end this installation will take up several rooms to experience.
2020
16’x4’x6’ - Wood, acrylic paint, polylactide