I always design with words.  I know that for other people to understand it is easier to draw pictures, but the truth of it is that I already see the image so it doesn’t make sense to sketch out a half-done poorly rendered sketch of what I want to see.   Instead, of pretending I can draw, I just write down details that I would miss in my head or specifics that I need to incorporate like parts and logistics in construction and exigence.   To summarize the idea behind this the monument that I wanted to bring up parts of AIDs and sex that were shoved away from the dark.  Do people fear me?  I wanted to bring to light the parts of AIDs that people don’t talk about which is were the danger is.   The parts tabooed is what makes AIDs so dangerous.  Now, people with HIV are living happy, healthy lives if they get correct treatment.   The dangerous part, the part that people truly fear is infection.  Getting it is worse than having it, and if people don’t talk about it, then getting infected is so much more likely if that makes sense.  What you don’t know can kill you.  For my moment I wanted to mock the bathhouses of the 80’s and the grime and dirtiness it was and is.  It is the breeding ground for AIDs no pun intended.    We were steered toward adding a modern twist to the monument, and I choose to incorporate transgender people with AIDs, because of transphobia many people who identify as trans are discriminated against and denied access to get tested which is were the fear of infection is multiplied and fits perfectly into the boathouse theme for my redesign.  Ultimately, I focus on fear and I focus on things that people don’t want to talk about like sex, disease, infection, and discrimination outside of the US.  It has so many levels which is why is lashes out into several taboos.