There are times when we must care for ourselves because there is no one else to do so. Glossy, oversized black pill shapes lined up in columns evoke medicine in a packet limbing the gallery wall. This work by General Idea, a Canadian artist collective active from the late 1960s to 1994, addresses the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Bella-Donna shares its name with a plant that has served as both a remedy and a fatal poison since at least the 4th century BCE. In the 1980s, when no approved treatments for AIDS existed, HIV/ AIDS patients sometimes ingested belladonna along with other toxic, agonizing, and unproven drugs. Out of desperation, those battling the disease sometimes developed their own therapies and treatments in an effort to save their own lives. Belladonna becomes a metaphor for the risk-taking of people with HIV/AIDS, where the edge between poison and medication is unclear.