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Confrontational in an entirely different
way, Winn's Akedah uses the same device of the double-take. His closely
cropped torso seems at first to be wrapped in leather bondage straps, or
those of an IV-user about to shoot up, with his left arm extended down
and facing the viewer. Yet closer inspection shows the band-aid on his
inner elbow where blood has just been drawn, and that the straps are
attached to a Jewish prayer book. They are, in fact, tefellin, the religious artifacts used by
orthodox Jews in prayer, and we realize that the piece references the
artist's dual identities of living with AIDS and being Jewish.
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