"Still Here" -- Transit Shelter/Billboard Project About HIV/AIDS -- Set to Debut in Berkeley, San Francisco

With a little over one month to go, Bay Area artists Sharon Siskin, Nancer Le Moins and Robert Corti are pulling together the elements of "Still Here." The "postcards" will debut on Nov. 4, and run through Dec. 15, 2001 in Berkeley in the Addison Street Windows, and from Nov. 14, 2001 through Feb. 15, 2002 in transit kiosks along Market Street in San Francisco. Each billboard-sized postcard bears the phrase: "Greetings from San Francisco," along with a photographic portrait of a resident or art program participant of the Derek Silva Community, a housing and support community for low-income people who are HIV-positive. Each postcard also features a note, written by the participant, describing his or her experience of living with HIV. While the design of the postcard will evoke an old-timey feel and the sense that writer is "on vacation," the background will be an enlarged image of red blood cells as seen through a microscope.

Both exhibits are timed to coincide with World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, 2001. Participants in the project were photographed in their homes doing everyday activities. Notes by volunteers were written when they attended a summer writing workshop taught by Alison Luterman, a poet, writer and HIV counselor. The workshop helped volunteers articulate their experiences of living with AIDS.

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