12" Diameter
Bronze
1985
Every second or third year the city of Ravenna calls for the sculptors of the world to commemorate their great son's epic poem the Divine Comedy. Some specific verses of Dante's work had to be interpreted through sculpture. In 1985 I picked the verse from Inferno X where one of the deads reaches out to Dante asking him what made it possible for him to be able to walk freely among them. This work was awarded a gold medal of the city of Ravenna, one of the fourteen real 18 carat gold medals. There were 400 works from 75 countries presented at that exhibition. I really felt good about getting that recognition.