Maine Invites You - Maine Tourism Association

Created in Nairobi, Kenya, by the Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health in 2004, this exhibition explores "body mapping," a technique devised to help HIV-positive women cope with the fact that they were likely to die prematurely and leave their children behind. In body mapping, life-size silhouette self-portraits express the feelings, memories, treatment and identities of those likely to die of AIDS. These powerful portraits and the celebratory process used to paint them allow HIV-positive people to explore both their own options and ways that other people influence their ability to stay hea