The Opening

[Stevenmarc]

A shot from my opening this weekend. This show was created to coincide with World AIDS Day and was inspired by wheat pastes on brick walls. I invited 16 diverse members of the community to participate in the project which presents the latest HIV and PrEP stats.

The pieces are fairly large scale, 36" x 48", and while shot with a more conventional camera the images were downloaded to my phone where the majority of the post processing took place.

One of the shows images:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Congrats on your Opening, my dear Stevenmarc!

Interesting images!

I can remember a time when nobody could show images like these, or even talk about HIV.

We have made significant progress.

[Stevenmarc]

3. Thank you

I remember those days well that's why I felt it was important to do this series. We've come a long way but there were some stats that showed we still have a way to go.

[alfredo]

2. That's too cool. Congrats.

I like what you did with the images.

[Stevenmarc]

4. Thanks

I've been really interested in the look of wheat paste on brick and doing large scale engineering prints and this project was a perfect subject for combining the two.

While the brick background is a straight up photograph, the portraits were run through 8 different apps to get to the point where I could combine both in Photoshop so I could enlarge them for printing and work on some of the smaller detail work.

[alfredo]

5. Wheatpaste brought back memories. I'm glad you are paying respect to the

street artist and activist.