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KEISKAMMA ALTARPIECE
AIDS alterpiece: From sorrow to celebration
- Of the many scenes on a huge altarpiece recently installed in Grace Cathedral, what stays with you is the harrowing embroidered image of an AIDS victim going from a hospital bed to a coffin in the over-filled cemetery. These pictures are relatively small compared with the rest of the Keiskamma Altarpiece, but they make up the simple “AIDS equals death” formula that has been the story of Hamburg, a village in South Africa’s poor Eastern Cape Province.
- Of the many scenes on a huge altarpiece recently installed in Grace Cathedral, what stays with you is the harrowing embroidered image of an AIDS victim going from a hospital bed to a coffin in the over-filled cemetery. These pictures are relatively small compared with the rest of the Keiskamma Altarpiece, but they make up the simple “AIDS equals death” formula that has been the story of Hamburg, a village in South Africa’s poor Eastern Cape Province.