Need for Beauty while Addressing Plastic Pollution, Coronavirus, and AIDS
March 13, 2020, my heart broke as it became clear that the novel coronavirus was becoming a global pandemic. My heart had broken 35 years earlier when my friends started dying of AIDS. Currently, Much medical research focusing on coronavirus. Yet, between 500,000− 970,000 people worldwide died of AIDS in 2019. AIDS Connecticut has an annual fundraiser, Art for AIDS, in the summer. Last year and this, I was invited to create three 12 x 12 inch canvases, which I donated to the