I am the way into the doleful city

Posted: July 27, 2009 
Filed under: Abstract
Tagged:
Comments: Leave a comment

Description

“I AM THE WAY INTO THE DOLEFUL CITY,

I AM THE WAY INTO ETERNAL GRIEF,

I AM THE WAY TO A FORSAKEN RACE.

JUSTICE IT WAS THAT MOVED MY GREAT CREATOR;

DIVINE OMNIPOTENCE CREATED ME,

AND HIGHEST WISDOM JOINED WITH PRIMAL LOVE.

BEFORE ME NOTHING BUT ETERNAL THINGS

WERE MADE, AND I SHALL LAST ETERNALLY.

ABANDON EVERY HOPE, ALL YOU WHO ENTER.”

- The inscription of Hell’s Gate

Alighieri, Dante.  The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno.  pg. 89, Lines 1-9, Canto III, Penguin Classics, Indiana University, 2003

This photo is part of a series of abstract photographic representations of different passages from Dante’s Inferno.  To view the full series and how each photograph fits into the prose, please visit this link:

http://www.soma-sema.com/old/Abstract/dantesque-journey.html

All of the photos from the Dantesque Journey were taken with my Nikon FM2, a 135mm Nikon e-series lens or a 50mm Nikkor lens, 400 ISO colour negative film and a red filter mounted on the lens using my Cokin P-Series filter system.