Canto IV/1: A Folly for Wisdom 

Silkscreen page proof approved by the artist and signed / initialled by him, taken from the original Talford Press edition of 185, printed on 100% rag, acid-free Inveresk (Somerset) paper

page size 39.5 x 31 cm

1979 – 1983

The castle Dante comes across in Limbo is shown here as a seven-sided structure, its projection making of it a building more allegory on the page than construct in space – its function being to house otherwise blameless souls whose misfortune was to pre-date Christ and therefore have no possibility of Salvation.