Drowned World

“This is the place I told you to expect.
Here you shall pass among the fallen people,
Souls who have lost the good of intellect.”

– Dante Alighieri “Canto III, The Inferno”

“Drowned World”

Collage on paper (2018) 13 x 10.5 in.

“At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.” - Dante Alighieri, Inferno, The Divine Comedy

Collage on paper (2018) 12.5 x 15 in.

“Men we were, and now we are changed to sticks; Well might your hand have been more merciful. Were we no more than souls of lice and ticks”. - Dante Alighieri, "The Wood of Suicides, Canto XIII, The Divine Comedy"

Collage on Paper (2018) 11 x 10.5 in.

$“Not all the gold there is or ever was under the sky could buy for one of these exhausted souls the fraction of a pause." - Dante Alighieri, “The Inferno, Canto VII, The Divine Comedy”$

“Not all the gold there is or ever was under the sky could buy for one of these exhausted souls the fraction of a pause." - Dante Alighieri, “The Inferno, Canto VII, The Divine Comedy”

Collage on paper (2018) 12 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.

“Where are they now whose high deeds might be-gem the crown of kings? I long to know their fate. Does Heaven soothe or Hell envenom them?” - Dante Alighieri, "The Inferno, Canto VI, The Divine Comedy”

Collage on paper (2018) 10 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.

artist verna valencia fallen world collage art

“At once I understood for certain these Were of that retrograde and faithless crew Hateful to God and to His enemies.” - Dante Alighieri, “Canto III, The Inferno, The Divine Comedy”

Collage on paper (2018) 19 x 23 in.

“What grieves me now; and I beg to know your name, That to make you some amends in the sweet world When he returns, he may refresh your fame”. - From Dante Alighieri’s “The Inferno” Canto XIII, Circle 7 Collage on paper (2018) 13 x 9 1/4”.

“What grieves me now; and I beg to know your name, That to make you some amends in the sweet world When he returns, he may refresh your fame”. -Dante Alighieri “The Inferno, Canto XIII, Circle 7, The Divine Comedy"

Collage on paper (2018) 13 x 9 1/4 in.

“Outcasts of Heaven, you twice loathsome crew” He cried upon that terrible sill of Hell, “How does this insolence still live in you?” - From Dante Alighieri’s “The Inferno” The Heretics Canto IX, Circle 5-6 Collage on paper (2018) 21 x 24

“Outcasts of Heaven, you twice loathsome crew” He cried upon that terrible sill of Hell, “How does this insolence still live in you?” - Dante Alighieri “The Inferno, The Heretics, Canto IX, Circle 5-6, The Divine Comedy"

Collage on paper (2018) 21 x 24 in.

“What souls are these who run through this black haze?”/ And he to me: “These are the nearly soulless Whose lives concluded neither blame nor praise...” - Dante Alighieri “The Inferno, Canto III, The Opportunists, The Divine Comedy”

Collage on paper (2019) 8 x 9.5 in.

“You follow me and I will be your guide And lead you forth through to an eternal place. There you shall see the ancient spirits tried.” - Dante Alighieri “The Inferno, The Dark Wood of Error, Canto 1: 108, The Divine Comedy"

Collage on paper (2019) 8 x 11 in.