Mano y Mano - Aleo Landeta Castro Keep your noggin warm

Keep your noggin warm

palms and toes touching the ground

he focused on themes related to the AIDS epidemic

I decided that I would strike proof sheets of all the black and white negatives so that as research continued at the library people would have an easy reference to what that binder of negatives had in it

Mano y Mano - Aleo Landeta Castro Keep your noggin warmSoft pastel and pencil on paper, wood mounted 24x30 Artist Statement: Mano y Mano was made as a meditation on gay PDA, grief, collective holding, and the path towards liberation. The piece was inspired by a quote found on Queering the Map posted from Palestine: "I've always imagined you and me sitting out in the sun, hand and hand, free at last. We spoke of all the places we would go if we could. Yet you are gone now. If I had known that bombs raining