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Sculptural and photographic installation by Linda Alterwitz, Self Without Interpretation (installation, Lilley Museum of Art, 2023). The image illustrates a key later body of work by Linda Alterwitz in the 2010s and 2020s, when she produced immersive installations that combined photographic, collaged and participatory methods. In these projects, she often used visual data derived from electroencephalogram (EEG) scans, which she printed on surgical gauze or other fabric, exploring themes of pain, healing, refuge and trauma. This image shows Alterwitz's project, "Self Without Interpretation" (2019–21), in which she photographed participants' printed scans at outdoor sites participants they named as personal sanctuaries and also printed them on two-story silks. This body of work and individual piece were publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions and institutions and discussed by critics in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Linda Alterwitz. Copyright held by the artist.

Linda Alterwitz

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key later body of work by Linda Alterwitz from the later 2010s and 2020s, her immersive installations which combined photographic, collaged and participatory methods, while continuing to investigate connections between the inner workings of the human body, the natural world and cosmos. These projects expanded her use of diagnostic medical processes—electrocardiogram (EKG), electroencephalogram (EEG) and fMRI scans—to capture various visual data and internal rhythms of the body. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this longstanding body of work, which has brought Alterwitz continuing recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and museum attention. Alterwitz's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Linda Alterwitz, and the work no longer is viewable in this form, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.