Nothing Broke but the Heart
Installation: X-ray photographs, magnetic resonance imaging digital images, computer generated animation, Plexiglas, and objects.
Nothing Broke but the Heart is a physical poem, a concrete interpretation of the metaphoric language we use to verbalize love and emotions. Modern, cold, invasive... none-the-less, state-of-the-art electronic medical technologies; X-ray beams, huge electromagnets, computers, film, and video, have been used to create very literal invocations of metaphors that have existed since the age of the Troubadours.
The installation contrasts the subjective expression of emotional injury with the objective analysis of physical injury. One can search for broken bones using X-rays. It is straightforward for a doctor to heal them. But, even with the most advanced medical imaging technology, the high-speed EPI scan, it is not possible to find the "break" in a heart. One cannot see the source of the pain.
© Clea T. Waite 1993