Extravagant or Credo by Emily Dyer

I read Dante's Divine Comedy years ago in college. It seemed Dante was using the creative process as a means for worship. I was haunted by how images were redeemed and altered throughout the three books: the souls as leaves in hell; the souls as petals in heaven. Since then, there have been so many books that added to this idea of creation as meditation as worship. In Walden, Thoreau discusses extravagance the idea of going beyond borders purposefully, radically. I saw this on the first page of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson's Genesis In the beginning with a red "I" that encompassed the page and the text. I saw it too in his Credo with the extravagance of the blank pages before beginning his treatise of belief. I began Extravagant or Credo in answer to these books. The book is my explanation of the extravagance of faith of worship. It layers sacred text and experience with scientific images (wing images made from collected specimens: butterfly, moth, dragonfly, grasshopper, bee).