“Planting the Seeds of Hope” was an interactive installation at the Falkirk Cultural Center as part of an invitational exhibition entitled “Interactions”. My work addressed youth risk to HIV/AIDS in Marin County, the site of the exhibition. The installation had five parts addressing memory and loss, education, personal action, private grieving and community/public interaction in the form of gardening. Throughout the exhibition, viewers were invited to plant seeds in pots, which grew into about 200 seedlings of native California flowers. I worked with the Marin Aids Project’s Peer Youth Educators and Adam’s House, the only live-in residence at the time, which was devoted to people living with AIDS. The exhibition project ended with the planting of seedlings in a garden at Adams House by the youth educators and me.