Dante's Flora
by James Aiken
Title
Dante's Flora
Artist
James Aiken
Medium
Photograph - Digital Image
Description
A dead tree glows with the redish ambience of the street lights as if its within the circles of hell from Dante's Inferno.
In the epic poem The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Virgil guides Dante through the nine circles of Hell. The circles are concentric, representing a gradual increase in wickedness, and culminating at the centre of the earth, where Satan is held in bondage. Each circle's sinners are punished in a fashion fitting their crimes: each sinner is afflicted for all of eternity by the chief sin he committed. People who sinned but prayed for forgiveness before their deaths are found not in Hell but in Purgatory, where they labour to be free of their sins. Those in Hell are people who tried to justify their sins and are unrepentant. (Information obtained from Wikipedia)
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October 31st, 2013
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Comments (28)
Jean OKeeffe
Wow. Visualizing the daily world war of good and evil that so many people sadly ignore. Vf
Giada Rossi
Great shot and title, Jamie! Love the analogy with Dante's Inferno, great eye and mind! :-)
Lianne Schneider
This is simply amazing - one might think it's a bit of forked lightning or an electrical current. Wonderfully imaginative. F/L
Jo Ann Tomaselli
your description is wonderful James and the angle of the limb creates a certain tension in this imposing image - nice!