David Wojnarowicz, Early and Recent Work, Card, PPOW, 1990

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Postcard for David Wojnarowicz’s exhibition of early and recent work at P.P.O.W., 1990. Front of card features Wojnarowicz’s In The Garden.

The full title of this photo collage by David Wojnarowicz explains it’s content: “In the Garden (sub-species Helms Senatorius) found in North Carolina and Washington, D.C.; this arachnid is responsible for cutting all Federal funding for safer-sex education designed to inform Lesbians and Gay Men, thereby leaving scores of the population atrisk of contracting AIDS.” In the Garden was created in the wake of the scandal following the withdrawal of support by the National Endowment for the Arts for the Artist Space exhibition Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing curated by Nan Goldin.

5″ x 7.5″

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