Uploaded by acme on 11 Aug ’05, 7.44pm PDT. Use subject to Creative Commons license.
Thanks to the movies, an EKG screen is an image of anxiety. It calls to mind catastrophic possibilities: flatline, code blue, crash cart, the whole thing. Stat. This appears to be a fairly healthy person, though, at least where his or her heart is concerned. There’s no clue whose EKG this is (family? friend? random patient?) or why they’re there (cancer? broken bone? routine checkup?). The photographer’s other photos don’t really clarify; some (wrist with name bracelet) appear to personalize the context, while others (medical waste sign) appear to be just interesting images found in a hospital. The mulitple ambiguities are what drew me to this image.
