Into Fire and Into Ice

E Gaube, Into Fire and Into Ice, digital photography, 10x7in, 2017
© copyright Ellen Gaube 2017

A very abstracted face, ghoulish in its deformity, is open-mouthed. Whether to eat or scream is the question.
From Dante's Inferno:
“Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the
other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.”