title page: 18 x 12 inches
Where Duppies Dance with the Damned
China Marks 2014
This is too scary for you, little guy!
Better stick with Disney!
Cerberus
pp. 1-2: 18 x 24 inches
text at bottom: A year ago, in debt to card sharps, he sold his soul to a stranger at a bar near the bus depot. / Six months later, sure she wouldn't mind, he returned to sell his mother's soul. / Then he suddenly started winning at cards and forgot all about it.
text above: This must be some kind of misunderstanding!
Bullshit! / No misunderstanding--we've come / to take your souls!
Tom, what have you done? These fellows mean business!
pp. 3-4: 18 x 24 inches
text at bottom: The damned because it hurts even more to stand still on the burning floor. / Demons and duppies dance alongside to torment and abuse them. / Endless groaning, pounding, clanging screams…
text at top: Remember how we used to love to dance, Jerry? / Oh shut up, Arlene! / (A murder / suicide, / fused together / for eternity.)
When can I disembowel her? / Dance faster, you piece of filth, / and keep those arms high! / (The wires deliver electric shocks!)
The damned keep their bodies after death and suffer accordingly.
pp. 5-6: 18 x 24 inches
text at bottom: This depiction of hell comes from two remarkably similar accounts 400 years apart / telling of gruesome dancing and a devil with a bird-like companion. / However well documented, this hell is only one of many, for the living as well as the dead.
text at top: A mother and son will arrive at any moment. / The son merits special attention. / Let me have the woman!
Holy Christ! / The vision of a mystic in 1463
This isn't on the map! / What a cyclist saw in 1879 / when he took a wrong turn on a tour of Arizona.
p. 7-8: 18 x 24 inches
text left to right: What does she mean by "many hells"? / Isn't one enough?
It doesn't seem so. The dead can end up / in one of several hells sponsored by / major and minor religions. Then there are all the public and private / living hells--wherever human being or animals suffer needlessly.
We can be such brutes!
the end
A book about Hell, based on various hells China has directly or indirectly known, on earth and beyond. Be warned: this book is not picturesque, it is hellish.
title page: 18 x 12 inches
Where Duppies Dance with the Damned
China Marks 2014
This is too scary for you, little guy!
Better stick with Disney!
Cerberus
pp. 1-2: 18 x 24 inches
text at bottom: A year ago, in debt to card sharps, he sold his soul to a stranger at a bar near the bus depot. / Six months later, sure she wouldn't mind, he returned to sell his mother's soul. / Then he suddenly started winning at cards and forgot all about it.
text above: This must be some kind of misunderstanding!
Bullshit! / No misunderstanding--we've come / to take your souls!
Tom, what have you done? These fellows mean business!
pp. 3-4: 18 x 24 inches
text at bottom: The damned because it hurts even more to stand still on the burning floor. / Demons and duppies dance alongside to torment and abuse them. / Endless groaning, pounding, clanging screams…
text at top: Remember how we used to love to dance, Jerry? / Oh shut up, Arlene! / (A murder / suicide, / fused together / for eternity.)
When can I disembowel her? / Dance faster, you piece of filth, / and keep those arms high! / (The wires deliver electric shocks!)
The damned keep their bodies after death and suffer accordingly.
pp. 5-6: 18 x 24 inches
text at bottom: This depiction of hell comes from two remarkably similar accounts 400 years apart / telling of gruesome dancing and a devil with a bird-like companion. / However well documented, this hell is only one of many, for the living as well as the dead.
text at top: A mother and son will arrive at any moment. / The son merits special attention. / Let me have the woman!
Holy Christ! / The vision of a mystic in 1463
This isn't on the map! / What a cyclist saw in 1879 / when he took a wrong turn on a tour of Arizona.
p. 7-8: 18 x 24 inches
text left to right: What does she mean by "many hells"? / Isn't one enough?
It doesn't seem so. The dead can end up / in one of several hells sponsored by / major and minor religions. Then there are all the public and private / living hells--wherever human being or animals suffer needlessly.
We can be such brutes!
the end
Where Duppies Dance with the Damned, 2014
An accordion book.
18 x 12 x 3 inches closed,
18 x 109 inches fully extended.
Fabric, thread, silk-screen ink, fusible adhesive, Jade glue, India ink, blood, museum board.
