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When your clinic visit is shorter than the time you spend making sense of the paper work for it

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Original Art by Zoe Rose Kriegler-Wenk

Title For More Information, Please Call . . . (2026)

collage

Media Magazine clippings, paper, glue

Caption by Zoe Rose Kriegler-Wenk and Christy Rentmeester

This collage explores emotional and logistical components of navigating insurance and payment structures in a complex US health system. A phone reminiscent of the 1980s has a cord tethering the figure to past alienating experiences with a fragmented system of health service delivery. The cord also encircles the neck and wrists of the foreground figure, suggesting experiences of many patients and their loved ones in entangled, ill-coordinated communications. The phone cord’s stricture is contrast to the background figure’s arms embracing the caller, responding to needs perhaps unmet during past health system encounters.

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