A collaboration with Angela Cavalieri… we began these three books in 2004 and completed our journey through Dante’s imaginary world in 2013. All three books feature Angela’s linocuts and my photographs and original hand-written texts in both ink and acrylic. The books use an assortment of archival papers of various weights and colours. The unbound books are presented in their clamshell boxes.

We looked at the illuminated versions of Dante’s Devine Comedy including work by Gustav Dore, William Blake and Tom Phillips; However, the artist who had the tightest grip on us was Colin McCahon – especially the late paintings and certainly we took note of how he combined text and image. As we travelled through Dante’s Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise we stopped longest at those points which we thought most accurately mirrored our own times. The title 1316 – comes from the alleged year in which Dante completed his masterwork.