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  • Cover artwork for Troilus and Cressida in the Fifth Folio edition featuring a collage of "Greek" imagery from the Bowdoin College's Walker Art and fraternity row.
  • A passage from *Troilus and Cressida* in which Patroclus urges Achilles back toward action, layered over a close view of Michelangelo’s *David* photographed in Florence. The monumental male form and the play’s intimate rhetoric together underscore the emotional and martial bond between Achilles and Patroclus, where affection, pride, and reputation become inseparable.
  • A passage from *Troilus and Cressida* in which Pandarus urges Cressida’s departure and the rupture of their mediated intimacy, layered over a sculptural female bust in the tradition of Rodin and a dispersed Eight of Diamonds motif that reads like a necklace across the composition. The image frames emotional separation, commodified desire, and relational breakdown through classical sculpture and card symbolism, where the language of love is inseparable from structures of exchange and loss.
  • Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida temptation speech featuring Cressida’s reflections on desire, error, and seduction, superimposed over hard rock vinyl records, guitar amplifier imagery, and a Venetian bull masque. Literary collage wall art blending Shakespeare tragedy text, rock music aesthetics, retro vinyl culture, masquerade symbolism, psychological temptation, decadent romance, Venice-inspired imagery, and experimental typography montage.
  • A passage from *Troilus and Cressida* in which Cassandra warns Priam and Hector of Troy’s approaching destruction, layered over a relief detail from the Florence Duomo crowded with beasts, ruin, and violent ornament. The compressed stone imagery amplifies Cassandra’s prophecy, turning the scene into a vision of civilization already collapsing into chaos.
  • Achilles slays Hector ignobly, against background of ancient Greek pottery.
  • A passage from *Troilus and Cressida* in which Pandarus reflects on the exhaustion and futility of desire, layered over a street-level graffiti work attributed to the artist Evyrein. The classical text’s lament about weariness, trade, and emotional expenditure is reframed through contemporary urban mark-making, where painted surfaces and public inscription echo the play’s sense of moral fatigue and transactional love.
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Troylus and Creßida

Troylus and Creßida

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Þe Tragicall Historie of TROYLUS and CRESSIDA

Initially noþing dramatic happened, oþer than þe occasional þeft of womē (willing participants if truþ be told), but þē it escalated. - Ἡρόδοτος

featuring Anton's door photograph. He raced from the train station on foot and without warning, and returned a few minutes later with the image.

Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida temptation speech featuring Cressida’s reflections on desire, error, and seduction, superimposed over hard rock vinyl records, guitar amplifier imagery, and a Venetian bull masque. Literary collage wall art blending Shakespeare tragedy text, rock music aesthetics, retro vinyl culture, masquerade symbolism, psychological temptation, decadent romance, Venice-inspired imagery, and experimental typography montage.

A passage from *Troilus and Cressida* in which Cassandra warns Priam and Hector of Troy’s approaching destruction, layered over a relief detail from the Florence Duomo crowded with beasts, ruin, and violent ornament. The compressed stone imagery amplifies Cassandra’s prophecy, turning the scene into a vision of civilization already collapsing into chaos.

Achilles slays Hector ignobly, against background of ancient Greek pottery.

A passage from *Troilus and Cressida* in which Pandarus reflects on the exhaustion and futility of desire, layered over a street-level graffiti work attributed to the artist Evyrein. The classical text’s lament about weariness, trade, and emotional expenditure is reframed through contemporary urban mark-making, where painted surfaces and public inscription echo the play’s sense of moral fatigue and transactional love.

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