In July 2017, I began illustrating each canto of Dante's Commedia. I wanted to explore the poem’s central focus on the experience of exile and how someone in isolation moves through space and time. New York in 2019 feels like a time of political and social upheaval, not unlike Florence in 1307, when Dante began his poem. Unlike other artist's renderings of his journey, my drawings bring critical attention to the class structures underpinning the writing. While a view from underneath is never flattering, it is essential now more than ever to reconsider who is damned and who is saved, both in Dante's and our own time. By incorporating different materials, technical handling and sources, the drawings achieve a layered quality, correlating with the density of the text. My drawings revere the language while excoriating the assumptions, arriving at a fresh and potent new Divine Comedy.