Community in a Time of Crisis: Yale, New Haven, and HIV/AIDS, 1981-1996

Item

“Peter’s Retreat” Mixed collage of acrylic, objects, newsprint, and photographs

Title

“Peter’s Retreat”
Mixed collage of acrylic, objects, newsprint, and photographs

Contributor

Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library

Rights

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Source

Piece by Kelly Jo Carlson-Senior Administrative Assistant, YSM Office of Student Research. This work was chosen from an open call to members of the YSM community for artwork related to the themes of this exhibition.

Item sets

Community in a Time of Crisis: Yale, New Haven, and HIV/AIDS, 1981-1996

This multi-media collage features human arms, photographed in black and white, playing red guitar strings. The arms and the strings are mounted on newspaper articles from the height of the AIDS epidemic that detail AIDS losses and stigma.

“Peter’s Retreat” Mixed collage of acrylic, objects, newsprint, and photographs