Only So Far

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Framed original mixed media painting on antique book page.

Floated in black frame, UV Glass, D-ring wire mounted.

20” x 17” x 2” (framed)

Virgil and Dante share a protective bubble facing Chaos in the altered Gustave Doré illustrations by artist, Sandra Jo Martinez. Deemed too dark to contemplate pre-covid, the gifted, 1800’s Dante's Inferno manuscript proved prescient.

Often using book pages and antique manuscripts as her blank canvas, Dante’s Inferno marks the first time the artist worked over illustrations instead of text.

Sandra Jo’s symbolist works on paper are intuitive and meditative. Taking inspiration from surrealists, her process begins with loose contour drawings that can be read as abstracted human, plant, and shelter forms.

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