Dante - Touch In / In Touch

A linocut from the 2024 Dante cycle whose paired title reverses the phrases touch in and in touch, signalling a print built on inversion and reciprocity. Touch carries particular weight in the Comedy: Dante and Virgil's hands meet repeatedly through Inferno, embraces of the saved punctuate Purgatorio, and the pilgrim's contact with shades is staged as both physical and impossible. The linocut format suits this mirrored composition — relief printing already involves a reversal between block and impression, so a doubled image of contact and its reflection sits naturally within the technique. The wordplay continues Ho's use of anagrammatic and palindromic titles as conceptual hinges, visible elsewhere in the cycle in Amor / Or-Am / More. Across her wider work, hands, contact, and physical presence recur as motifs, particularly in cycles concerned with family, memory, and intimacy. Within the Dante project this sheet handles the poem's tactile encounters between souls, between languages, and between reader and text.