Twenty years ago, Philadelphia artist Terrence Gore was told he had just one month to live. Now he has a first-of-its-kind exhibit that shows the healing powers of art and nature.

Gore has had a lifelong love affair with Bartram's Garden . The public garden in Southwest Philly is now the place he finds inspiration for his art, which is now on display inside the historic Bartram House.

"As a child, I always yearned to come into this house, but it was not accessible," Gore said.

He grew up next door at Bartram Village, a public housing project that became his playground.

"I saw this place as my own space, like I was the richest person," Gore said.

Nature gives him the strength to live with brain lesions and partial paralysis on his right side, complications from HIV and AIDS.

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