Coincidentally, though they took different routes back from
devastating physical afflictions (Weathers from hypothermic coma, Armstrong from cancer), they ended up in the same place, snug in the arms of their loved ones.
Ravaged by the
physical and psychological
afflictions of AIDS, DeSana, in the early 1980s, pushed out a heartbreaking body of work that communicates the often
devastating isolation and despair that accompanied the decease.