The Design Comedy: The Decent Through Inferno economy Ellen Johnson

Ellen Johnson

presented by COMMERCE

Tracing one family’s history from Taiwan to America

concrete and visual poetry

The Design Comedy: The Decent Through Inferno economy Ellen JohnsonDesign is a hellmouth of disappointment and a harrowing pit of professional failure. In this paraphrase of Dantes Divine Comedy, Otto von Busch, a pitiful design professor, searches for the design workshop at Parsons. Proving inaccessible, the lost professor falls into despair. However, a recently fired workshop technician, Virgil, appears to know the way. They descend the crumbling corridors of designs collapse, through the ruins and anguish of