Plastic and rubber

Could prehaps make a feature of this.

Vacuum forming

Vacuum formed condoms in and out there packets.  I feel these to be very successful and can see them going further.

Start of the condom army!

Combining and experimenting

Textured condoms

Used dotted and ribbed condoms filled with plaster and got some really delicate results.  Could see an multiple of them having an almost overwhelming effect on the senses and would really get people thinking.

Created text by silk screen on to tags.

Trying different hues

Yellow doesn't translate this image well and feel lilic is to warm. Need to try a mint green,  bt so far the baby blue seems to work the best with this particular image.

Medical guidelines on giving bad news

I found it fascinating the way the GPs have to approach delivering bad news.  It can be just as emotional for  the doctor who has to tell the patient as it is for them. There was a great example I found of how to structure telling someone bad news.  Some parts I felt to either relate very well to HIV or to be supportive and caring.  Such as "...some treatment that will make you feel very unwell but you can get through it. " and "...you have a fight on and we can win."

Lighter version

This I feel works brilliantly in comparison to the previous attempts.  I used cream tags and a soft baby blue to solve the problem and now want to attempt to try with text on the tags as this is a far more simplistic image to work with.

Tags and silkscreen

This silkscreen was developed from a photo I took of melting ice  over the small grip bumps of the paving, that made me think of the nurse's spreading a positive attitude towards those with HIV.  I added the postal tags as a symbol of the message being delivered.  I had intended to explore putting text on the tags but felt that the image was busy enough.  I like the way in which the image is more intense on the tags,  given a sense that the medical staff know what thay are talking about in detail. 
I do however feel that the image may be overly bold and dark for the viewing public that intended for.

Postal tags

Stamped HIV on the postal tags as a symbol of medical staff delivering the news. I will look at medical guide lines on how nurse's deal with delivery bad news.  I have decided to look at nurse's after reading a bit on how an African nurses attitude towards her patient was then reflected by the rest of the community that she works in.

Don't think these plaster and condoms experiments can go anywhere.

Creating a print with this image and using postal tags to create a collage.

Ice experiment

This didn't go quite as planned.  I filled a condom with water to freeze hoping that it would take on the underneath relief, which was the word HIV.  When I closed the freezer drawer of course everything shifted.
The end result when the condom was off was pretty, though little less of me learning to blow glass to create some sort of replica, I could not see where I could take this.  However the spread of the melt water over the repetitive bump on the paving how positive word is spread.  There was a study done in to how the attitudes of nurses towards patients with HIV reflected and influence the community around them.

HIV, alive and well

HIV alive and well is the brief I have been given.  The end product is to hang in the hospital waiting room so it can't be disturbing or cos any stress or upset,  which is going to be a challenge.
Looking at artists such as Damien Hirst and his medical cabinet and mauro Perucchetti.