The Fine Art Of Hell is a collection of published works of Dana Simmons.

The photographs are a body of works  devoted to a  specific project over

a  period  of ten  years,  and  taken during  fetish nights,  at Club Hell, in

Providence, Rhode Island: culminating in the presentation of these works

by the artist.

The photograph are a dynamic presentation with a personal passion and

commitment that captures and  elicit a rang of  emotions that one cannot

escape to be mesmerized.  The images undeniably document a period in

time  and a  subculture of  individual infatuated with the adornment of the

body, exhibitionism, voyeurism, bondage and a host of plethora of a sub-

categories.

The Fine Art Of Hell is a ceremonious visual journal of sublimated desires

and unforgiving submissiveness that intrinsically permeates human nature.

A  pictorial  testimony of  impulses and energies morally regarded as unac-

ceptable ; especially sexual desires. It seduces us to look at the content of

the photographs,  and offers the endeavors themselves as  perhaps  more

socially acceptable; via a creative activity or outlet. The photographs shed

light  into the  mind as the center of  thought and behavior and ask of us to

be less judgmental and more understanding,open and accepting of others.

Six photographs from  The Fine Art Of Hell  have been acquisitioned into

the  Rhode  Island School  of Design Museum’s archives via Jan Howard,

Curator of Drawing,Prints and Photography,as significant works of art that

document a subculture, time and place.

Dana Simmons ©  All Rights Reserved