Since I didn't alter the faces of the people much at all, I pulled most of the rest of the pages for color rather than add more images. However, when I came across the buterflies in a print by Damien Hirst, I felt compelled to add them to the piece somehow.
Trying to come up with a title, I knew I wanted to reference "antiretroviral therapy" but was having a hard time doing it in any way that was at all interesting. In frustration, I googled "antiretroviral therapy" and came to a wikipedia article that abreviated it as ART and one that also shortened "the World Health Organization" to WHO. It seemed to me as though the title had existed well before the artwork and was just waiting around for me to find it.
Now, imagine my surprise last Friday as I flipped through the latest issue of Vogue pulling images for a new collage and spotted an article about the lastest project by Bono for Project RED. It is a collaborative effort with none other than Damien Hirst. The two have organized an auction of artwork (somehow tied to the idea of "red") by famous contemporary artists in order to fund continued antiretroviral therapy to the people of Africa.
Full circle.
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