General Idea
Life & Work by Sarah E.K. Smith
General Idea, Melting Snow Crystal Virus #4, 1992, mixed media, 78 x 63 cm, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House, Art Museum at the University of Toronto. General Idea
made ten of these mixed media works representing an image somewhere between a melting snowflake and a microscopic view of an HIV virus. Snow also shares a relationship
to General Idea’s interest in innocence and their use of imagery of seal pups on breaking ice to symbolize the valuing of one life over another
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