South of the Equator

Decades ago, the AIDS pandemic witnessed how HIV ravaged the body of men. In this narrative, the author addresses the fundamental differences highlighted by the artist in advertising. Set against a backdrop of rapid travel on a train traveling through various countries. After the author departs the AIDS conference, she weaves in and out of a time. The brief span of seconds to minutes wondering whether she too would die from HIV or what would happen to her body, as the mirror was men dying and wasting of a rapid loss or gain of weight; At the same time, its impact of HIV/AIDS has on the body took decades of public reckoning that the body of women and its perils did not come before as few magazines looked this way. It is not until she finds an up-close view of the work of the creative fashion photography Toscani. The same one demonized by the public for his photography embedded in the print world of fashion. When she decides to interview him and other journalists, the twist is a sparkle of mysticism that takes place while south of Europe; short literary prose addresses the biopic non-fiction moments interconnected with the minutiae of critique. Here, readers get a glimpse into the truth of the 1990s that was also called a lie. The impact HIV/AIDS has on the body didn't realize itself until decades later. The work also sheds light by raising intellectual specter of AIDS, the same one that impacted the bodies captured by Toscani: we find, after all, they may not exist as only white bodies, but perhaps, hues in between the moral compass of Colors we see black, brown, yellow and red, as evidence, such facts may one day come true and questions of fact is how to do you gain weight after decades of HIV/AIDS wasting? How do you survive a pandemic that new medications helped to sustain lives, but if the body witnesses wreckage of the past what references are there in the present within the art world advancing fact in fiction in an image?

• | Author: Imani Harrington
• | Publisher: Antiquity Mapped
• | Publication Date: February 28, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 112 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0578855704
• | ISBN-13: 9780578855707