I recently watched MediaStorm’s Bloodline. There is something about AIDS and HIV that just pulls at my heart strings. I sat there in a ballroom watching this 12 minute piece holding back the tears (well trying unsuccessfully to hold back the tears).
There is something about the disease that creates a concern and compassion I have found that consumes me. I have become so interested in creating a body of work to educate people in America that this disease still exists in our country — you don’t have to cross the borders to find people dying of the horrible disease. While I was captivated by the Bloodline piece, I acknowledge the fact that there is a lot of coverage of HIV and AIDS in Africa and now India and Russia. But there is not enough coverage of HIV and AIDS in the states. I hope to change that. I hope to give a voice to those in America that are living and dying with HIV and AIDS in this country, the country that thinks it now only happens in Africa.
Posted by Jenn Ackerman
