DOCUMENT POLITICAL OR SOCIAL MOMENTS. Lewis makes use of anxious, electroformed fragile bird-like types as proxies to evoke reminiscences of mates he had fallen sick with AIDS.
The virus itself is represented as pure and inviolable, each because the clasp of the necklace and by connecting the rings.—and as a compartment or locket to comprise something that may match… By grading the scale of skull-like types—evoking medieval plague masks—The sequence represents each the exhaustion of the person attributable to sickness and the unfold of the illness from individual to individual. The within of the coin accommodates an excerpt from 19.pearlNineteenth-century French poet Gerard de Nerval: “Ou sont nos amoureuses? Elles sont au tombeau.” (“The place are our lovers? They’re within the graves.”) —Keith Lewis
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