Artist Statement Project 3

Person 1

i woke up dazed. i looked around me and saw that i was trapped in a tiny box, and then i looked around the room, and saw others just like me that were trapped in these tiny boxes all stacked up on top of each other. My heart began to thump and shock overwhelmed me. i started to panic and the next thing i knew was that i could not breathe anymore. i poked my nose out through the wire caging, and the cold material sent a shutter through my body. I tried to chew on the strange material, but i could not. It was too solid and cold that it hurt my teeth.

Person 2

The tests on the computer looked promising. I looked at tht data repeatedly as realization set in. The subject in cage one was having a positive effect from the drug dosage. According to the data, the caccine was eliminating the HIV that i injected in the subject's veins. The small dosage was attacking the HIV cells by the second.

Person 1

i spent the next three hours in complete fear. I could not remember how i had gotten into this cage, i did not know where i was, and confusion sent my mind in loops. I had been running around in the cage, bumping my head into the wires hoping that i could bust through. I ran into each possible corner and inch in my chamber.

Person 2

I was so excited. After three hours of injecting the subject with the vaccine, the HIV had completely vanished. KMy whole body was shaking with confidence. I had told my whole team about the sucess and now everyone was reeking with anticipation. There were many more tests to do to make sure that this really was the cure for HIV.

Person 1

The door opened and a human with a white lab coat walked into the room. The human approaced my cage. All my thoughts stood still as the human lifted the latch off the door and stuck its hand inside. I began to panic. I braced my whole body against the opposite end of the cage.

The thoughts in my head were screaming at me. I bent down and lunged for the human's hand. I sunk my teeth right into its finger. It did not even flinch. The human had rubber gloves on. He grabbed my neck as i kicked and squealed. I then felt a sharp pinch in my ass and my body went limp. I could not move: I thought I was paralyzed.

Person 2

As the subject was sprawled out across the table, I immediately noticed that the vaccine paralyzed the victime for a short period. I strapped some cords to its body to monitor its brain and heart activity I also stuck a small tube with a microscopic video camera attached to the end down the subject's throat to monitor the vaccine in progress.

Person 1

The next few hours wnt by in a daze. The human had injected my body twice and it felt like it was tearing my body apart. It burned and painfully ripped at every emotion i had. My body had started to throb and i got the shakes. The pain was so immense that I eventually ended up passing out. I awoke to the human grabbing my body and tossing me back in the cage as if I was a used paper napkin. Worthless. I ended up dieing in my cage that night, all alone and torn.

Person 2

The subject ended up dieing. I was unsure if the vaccine caused the subjec'ts death. I ended up injecting five more subjects to run more tests on. I really hope that the first subject was not just a miracle. I really hope that this was truly the cure for HIV. I needed to run as many tests as possible to find out all the reactions to the drug.

I decided to write a story from the point of view of a rabbit and the point of view of the lab tester. First person is the rabbit and second person is the scientist. The rabbit wakes up traped in a cage. It is scared and starts to panic. The human injects the rabbit with a vaccine that is supposed to cure HIV and the rabbit goes through pain and suffering. In the end of the story the rabbit dies.

The scientist thinks that he found the cure for HIV. He is soo excited that it worked on one of his subjects. He then tests it on another rabbit, the first person, and finds out that the rabbit dies. He doesnt know if it is from the vaccine. In the end he decides to try it on a bunch of rabbits. He needs to know if the tests are accurate.

I decided to write a story because I wanted people to see both point of views. The ethical perspective and the unethical perspective were played out in this story. I didnt really understand the assignment so it took me a lot of thinking to come up with this idea. I had to think of a way to present both ideas on animal testing and make sure it wasnt like an essay.

Out of the different types of mediums I could choose from, I thought that this would get my point across. At first I was just going to write a story in the rabbits voice. After thinking about it, i thought it would be more interesting to add the scientist's voice to the story. I chose to do stem sell research as a base point because I have always had neggitive views of it. There are other ways to test products insead of using animals. I think it is cruel and wrong. Thats why the bunny's voice is so strong.

I think it came out pretty well. I liked my story a lot. I like how I kept the creature a secret. When reading it, people dont know what the animal is. It never says that it is a rabbit. They could also think that it is another human. Its left up to the readers imagination.

If i had more time, I think i could have made the story a lot better. It could have been longer and more specific. I am still happy with it.

I want the audience to be aware that animal testing is cruel. These animals are being tortured and most die. Its wrong what they do. But there has been discoverys in doing it. If we could find the cure for HIV, then we need to do what we need to do in order to save peoples lives. I just wish there was another way that scientists would use instead of torture.