Digital Transparency w/ Text: It took two days of shooting to get this shot the way I wanted it. I would position him wrapped in the plastic in any number of ways. The plastic did work for me because it suggested to me something of a body bag but a transparent body bag because I want the Culture to see AIDS for the ugliness it's been -- still is -- and I didn't want a black body bag to represent a covering up when what I want/ demand is a seeing through. Art is an animal and you are compelled to put demands on it. AIDS is not about numbers anymore than people are numbers. They're individuals; they all have stories, and and they must be imbued with a humanity. AIDS has wrapped us up within the context of the body bag and our response to it has had much to do with a fetal position and vulnerability. AIDS has immobilized us. Art that addresses AIDS must not be allowed to be put into the box of fashion where "we did that last year and things are better now." Better for whom. I demand change from my Art and I want my Art to demand change as well. I did one shot where he was wrapped in the plastic smoking a cigarette and I loved that one but the humor wasn't what I had set out to capture. Maybe that one for another time. And then this: Something was wrong will all of it. Every shot was off the mark. They weren't speaking to me. And then I hit on the image with wire versus duck tape or rope and the wire wrapped around the ankles worked for me. For the background, I went with a page from one of my books because what most people see as fiction is often something I see as real or more likely a layering of reality where one story is bleeding into another just like the stories of people do.