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HEAVEN & HELL

THE EVERCLEVER ART COLLECTIVE

CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE, 2024

Gothic Window Frame & Inferno Image Background

Size: 15 1/2 x 23 3/8 in; 39.4 x 59.4 cm

Signed on back

Inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy as well as from the obvious evidences of Global Warming, both being products of human ego, folly, idiocy, and recklessness.  Inferno (Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno describes the journey of a fictionalised version of Dante himself through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth; it is the "realm ... of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen". As an allegory, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul toward God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin.