Mano y Mano - Aleo Landeta Castro palms and toes touching the

palms and toes touching the ground

I'm sorry I was a coward

he focused on themes related to the AIDS epidemic

Untitled Portrait #2

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Mano y Mano - Aleo Landeta Castro palms and toes touching theSoft 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