Giordano's Window 2019 Book covers, ink and silver leaf in artist's frame.

39.5 x 31 x 2 inches. This work is in memory of Giordano Bruno, poet/philosopher and would be religious reformer burned at the stake for heresy in Rome in 1600. Lured to Venice by a bookseller in 1591 on behalf of a Venetian nobleman interested in learning the art of memory, the impassioned Bruno had a falling out with the wealthy scion and was locked in a guest room and soon after delivered to the Inquisition. Bruno was in possession of a number of “conjuring books,” works on magic that were probably considered by authorities as treatises on the dark arts. One can imagine Bruno trapped in a room with shuttered windows in the nobleman's grand palazzo surrounded by and tragically condemned by the books that were the mainstay of his faith.