During the first wave of the 2020 Pandemic, I sat down to capture the brokenness and failures of an American Healthcare system that would purge mass numbers of citizens from their insurance in a pandemic as they lost their jobs. And for those of us who have no choice but to try to make the private for-profit healthcare system work for us, it feels like a battle for every little thing. The image of a tiny, delicate flower, trying to bloom in an impossible environment of cracked cement came to mind. The fissures in the cement are modeled on electrocardiogram readings.

This gave way to further electrocardiogram experimentation, combined with with cityscape imagery, during a time when the pandemic raged in New York and Boston, while politicians in Washington D.C. refused to take action.

EKG Series

Karyn Alzayer