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Place is sensual, landscape is visual. 1 Place is “a portionof the land/town/cityscape seen from the inside,the resonance of a specific location that is known andfamiliar.” 2 It is the product of an interaction with a specificenvironment, a confluence of experience, vision,history and culture. Place comes from within “the mapof a person’s life. It is temporal and spatial, personaland political.” 3 It is as Lucy Lippard so smartly puts it,the lure of the local. Place is internal and lived wherelandscape is external and most often consumed as atourist or one that is just passing through. It is this personallocality that Linder has been delving into for twodecades with her artworks.Linder works and creates in the most rural of areas inthe Montana high plains. Even though isolation is woveninto the cultural mythology of artistic studio work,Linder’s art is very much connected to an art historicallineage and conversation with modern and contemporarysculptors and artists such as Eva Hesse,Joseph Beuys, Robert Gober and Rachel Whiteread.Linder’s use of non-traditional materials such as resin,collagen, and leather in her sculpture point to the greatpost-war sculptor Eva Hesse, who also utilized unconventionalmaterials such as latex, fiberglass and rope inher abstract sculptures that were as much about sculpturalform as abstract references to a susceptible andtender body. Through this groundbreaking artwork,TRACTOR HIDES1997-1998, series of 14, photo emulsion on animalcollagen, polyurethane, steel rod, disc plate, light,installation dimensions variable, 5.3’-6.5’ high foreach, installation at University of Wyoming ArtMuseum, Laramie, WY