XXXII/2 Continuing the mood of recycling and recapitulation that dominates the latter part of the book and hoping to make it clear in the process that the images, however various, do occupy a unified field I here reworked a picture from an earlier suite of prints called A Walk to the Studio which catalogued in order all the stop-cock box-lids (for such is their proper name) that lay beneath my feet as I walked from my home to the studio. They have always represented to me a kind of memento mori, announcing death with their lugubrious colour and skull-like shape (often with features reinforced by the action of time; the growth of weeds, the spots of tar and paint). Thus these heads that I walked on become the heads of souls, fixed in the ice (here superimposed in the same method as the previous image), that are trodden upon by Dante in this circle -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.