#anyone feel free to fix this i don't write alt text or IDs much

[winterlady1967]

[ID: image on the left is an art exhibit of an electric box fan mounted on a clear plastic frame. END ID]

[ID: A placard placed near the box fan describing the artwork. It reads:

John Boskovich, b. 1956 Los Angeles, d. 2006, Los Angeles. The title of the fan piece is: Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers): Only Unclaimed Item from the Stephen Earabino Estate, 1997.

A description of the materials used reads as follows: Electric fan encased in Plexiglass with vinyl faux etching and Plexiglass base with casters, Gift of the artist in memory of Stephen Earabino. 2000.12

Soon after the death of his lover Stephen Earabino from AIDS, Los Angeles conceptual artist Boskovich discovered that Earabino's family had completely cleared out his apartment, including the artist's possessions, save for the electric box fan in this work. An entire person, existence, and relationship had been erased, like so many were during the AIDS crisis. Boskovich encased the fan in Plexiglass as a kind of evidence and added cutouts to allow its circulated air to escape and be felt by the viewer, almost like an exhalation. In a sense restoring Earabino's breath, at least as a facsimile in memoriam, Boskovich makes a tender and brokenhearted gesture toward some form of eternal life. END ID.]