HIV - Housing Is Vital: From The Bone Collection

This piece depicts a skeletal figure standing on a street, holding a bouquet of flowers. Behind the figure are two apartment units, along with surrounding elements that suggest an urban environment and the passage of time. On the figure’s shirt is an HIV/AIDS awareness ribbon. The contrast between the skeletal form and the act of holding flowers introduces a quiet tension—between absence and offering, permanence and fragility. The presence of housing structures alongside the figure suggests themes connected to shelter, place, and access, while the ribbon anchors the work in a broader context of HIV/AIDS awareness. The imagery is intentionally open-ended. It brings together symbols of time, housing, mortality, and care without prescribing a single interpretation, allowing the viewer to draw their own meaning from the scene.