At a reception Nov. 21, the Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted, opened Cal Calvird’s exhibit ‘Compliance: The Pattern of Living with HIV’ in its second-story gallery. According to Calvird, the show was inspired by an article in the medical journal The Lancet suggesting that an individual infected with HIV at 20 years old may live, with access to treatment, until 70. In 29 panels, ‘Compliance’ portrays the number of pills—roughly 37,000 (at two each day) —that an individual might expect to take over 50 years. ‘Everybody’s affected’ by HIV, whether positive or negative, says Calvird, who finds a ‘new reality emerging’ out of advancing medical technologies: ‘Is the imperative to remain negative still there?’ While evoking the pattern of the AIDS quilt, itself meant to symbolize loss, Calvird asks, ‘What would a ‘living with HIV’ quilt look like?’ ‘Compliance’ will be on display at the Center through Monday, Jan. 5. Photo and text by Samuel Worley