Dante - It Spills From the Screen

The second title in Ho's 2024 Dante cycle introduces a contemporary intrusion—the screen—into the medieval text's visionary structure. The phrase 'spills from the screen' suggests the threshold-crossing logic of the Commedia rerouted through digital experience: an image escapes its rectangle, the way a vision leaks from a dream. Ho's linocut handling, with its graphic clarity and binary register of inked and uninked surface, suits this kind of compressed metaphor; the relief block forces decisions about light and shadow that parallel Dante's allegorical structure. Across her career Ho has worked between tightly observed personal narrative and a broader symbolic register, and the screen here serves as both literal device and conceptual hinge—a contemporary surface through which Dante's questions about mediation, image, and disclosure can be reposed. The piece sits within her wider concern with how images travel and what they bring with them across the threshold of the printed sheet.