I had a difficult time being able to focus and read this piece. The first image from the AIDS Quilt was a bit disturbing because I’ve worked in a hospital where low-income HIV and AIDS patients came for treatment. I would fill their monthly prescriptions for Ensure because they needed nutritional supplements. Honestly, I read this piece in pieces. I found it interesting that this project (for some) should be viewed as opening the wound versus healing the wound of HIV and AIDS. Also, I was a bit confused about the make-up of the quilt. I thought the first photo was the entire quilt (which is probably why it was a bit difficult to digest); correct me if I’m wrong, but the quilt is a bunch of panels from different people who have been impacted by the disease. I was raised in the 80s, so I was conditioned with the same thought process as most of the world when HIV and AIDS was still new and carried stiff judgement, along with a guaranteed death sentence. I like the idea of this quilt. I hope to see remnants of it one day.
AIDS Quilt
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