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Painting by Heide Fasnacht, Turbulence (acrylic paint on manipulated photo mounted on wood panel, 48" x 60", 2019). The image illustrates Heide Fasnacht's later (2018– ) body of photo-based mixed-media paintings, which examine changes to the built environment over time through depictions of malls, theme parks, and abandoned or neglected sites of childhood play. The "Playgrounds & -topias" series pictured here focuses on the ghosts of rural or suburban, 1950s and 1960s swing sets, seesaws, rollercoasters and jungle gyms in large, often nocturnal paintings. They retain Fasnacht's interest in the dissolution of matter and the kinetic, conveying a bodily sense of gravity-defying exhilaration modulated by nostalgia and melancholy. They are painted on grounds of digitally manipulated, tiled inkjet prints of Internet images, with surfaces activated by layered passages of brushy paint, invented structural elements, and occasional, sketchy notional figures

Artist Heide Fasnacht. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a later body of work in Heide Fasnacht's career: her photo-based mixed-media paintings, begun in 2018, which examine changes to the built environment over time. They featured buildings, malls, theme parks, and abandoned or neglected sites of childhood play that are collaged, drawn and painted on a range of surfaces (colored floor tiles, vinyl, wood, Polystyrene, cardboard) in lyrical or graphic, blueprint-like fashion. This work, particularly the playground series, have been described as exploring memory and fallibility, possibility and danger, loss and "unclaimed reminiscences." 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 visualize this key shift and component of her artistic output. Fasnacht's work of this type and this work in particular is discussed in the article and by prominent critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Heide Fasnacht, 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.