The beginning of John Lindell's career coincides with the AIDS crisis. His work, like that of other artists also included in the collection, would be influenced by this epidemic that hit cities like New York, where he resides and works, so hard. Lindell was a member of the activist group Gran Fury, created together with artists Marlene McCarty and Donal Moffett, among others, as a response to the inaction of the American government in the face of the AIDS pandemic, and to request greater budget for disease research and greater access to medications. The members of Gran Fury would be, in the words of critic Richard Meyer, "a band of individuals united by rage and dedicated to exploiting the power of art to end the epidemic". Lindell's work in the collection is Amour Anesthesia, dated 1987. It is an intimate and emotional portrait of the feeling of loss and desolation in times as dramatic as those, and for this reason the almost clinical medium that Lindell uses to reference the disease.