What Sexual Health Awareness Campaigns Can Learn From Art | /Slantist: The result of her labors, which she presented as her thesis in 2009, is Perilous Transmission, a painstaking work of humanity that transcends the easy message of most sexual health awareness campaigns. The series shows a couple as they work out their emotions following infection, as well as a cast of other characters going about their daily lives, showing the viewer that there is life after a positive test result.
To visually illustrate what is so often invisible, Brough used her models’ skins as a canvas. She thought a long time about how she was going to show positive status, conscious of the possible stigma that easy solutions — such as the biohazard symbol — would convey.