Heaven and Hell

Bronze, 1987

Casa di Dante
Florence, Italy

Scalia Law School
George Mason University
Washington, D.C.

Editions of the Heaven and Hell sculpture composition are permanently placed at both Casa di Dante in Florence, Italy and at the Scalia Law School of George Mason University in Washington, D. C. This work is inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. Heaven and Hell is a double-pronged composition: two alpha-helix spirals, the right side flowing upwards towards a guardian angel, the left side cascading downwards from a tumultuous sculptural mass reminiscent of chaotic tornado-like clouds. Stretched between these spirals is a human figure. This composition is a question, incarnated in three-dimensional sculptural language: which way does your path lead? Will we rise or fall? This work, along with Mitosis and Novation, were of the early figurative works of sculpture that led to Greg Wyatt’s appointment as Sculptor-in-Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine by Dean James Parks Morton in the early 1980s.

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