The piece is a commentary on the 1991 large scale failed clinical HIV trial ACTG 175 https://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/resources/tagline/tagline-1995/combo-jumbo/
St. John's Violin
"When Nature Underneath A Heap of Jarring Atoms Lay,
And Could Not Heave Her Head,
The Tuneful Voice Was Heard From High,
Arise Ye More Than Dead’!”
(transcription of the text in the painting)
This painting was inspired by the public service campaign previously printed on the sides of milk cartons. "Have You Seen Me?" has been donated to the Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
YOU TRIED THE QUEEN
OF DIAMONDS BOY
SHE BEAT YOU SHE’S
ABLE [?] QUEEN OF
HEARTS WAS ALWAYS
YOUR BEST BET… YOU’RE
LOSING ALL YOUR HARD
EARNED [DOVE] LOVE AIN’T IT FUN
NY HOW THE FEELING
Christiane has been diving in the androgynous unconscious.
She has raised up a great pearl.
The air tube of the scuba mask dares not breathe a world of the castration
of Uranus.
(transcription of the text in the painting)
0. GLUTTONY
THE LASTING SUPPER
[THE LAST THING SUPPER]
[From left to right] Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt
[From top to bottom] William Blake's The Ancient of Days, Paul Gauguin and Kandyskin-lsis-Anna Livia…