Linda Alterwitz | In Sight
Statement
The series “In-Sight” examines the human connection to the world in which we live by exploring the boundaries of art and science. I blend two distinctly different types of visual information, medical imagery and landscape. The medical imaging allows us to see what lies beneath the surface. In contrast, photographic images of landscape provide different information: that which is familiar, identifiable and exposed at the surface.
In this series, I use PET scans of the human body. In this process, radioactive material is put into one’s body in order to create digital images of the structure and function of specific organs and tissues.
Through different processes that use chemistry as a means to yield different perspectives, results such as PET scans and film photography have allowed me to create a visual dichotomy-that which is seen on the surface in contrast to that which is hidden beneath. I portray a visually altered world, leaving the viewer filled equally with strength and vulnerability.