I AM JOE'S FEAR OF DISEASE:
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Imaginary x-ray of the artist. Steel Gym, the location of one Coleman’s worst attacks. Doctors told Coleman that his illness was caused by exercise. The artist’s mother, dying in the hospital. His own time in the hospital brought up memories of his mother’s lingering death in 1989.
Coleman performing an autopsy in Hungary, from the documentary film Rest in Pieces. To Coleman, the experience was an excavation of the mysteries hidden beneath the flesh, and a vision of his own destiny. Scene from The Adventures of Jimmy Microbe, another children’s book about disease. Here, Jimmy meets the deadly diphtheria bacillus.

					

Pigeons defecating on an air conditioner, cause of Legionnaire’s Disease.

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