Cascading California: Kara Miller

I find this collection and collage very interesting for this primary reason: It takes charts, graphs, stat's, and other "classic" informatics, and plays with them in such a way as to both utilize as well as question the information therein. At first it seems like a collection of information in visual formats, but it is a toppling array of chaos and structural violence. Indeed, without the text, it is more difficult to plug in the role of the dominos, but the array of info in and of itself creates a dizzying, confusing, and unsettling affect, which is a critical point to make as publics try and sift through policy, law, facts, and protocol at the same time as sifting through rubble. Publics are tasked with either understanding health risks at the same time as accepting the fact that our very own behavior contrinutes to crises.This shifting squares in the collage, a nod to De Stijl, as you mention, is likened to channels, websites, and flashes/ screens of information, which may or may not be congruent. There is an imbalance here, and I think that is successful. It feels ethnograohically dense is its considerations as health and air and stats are paired with personal images and geo-sptail considerations.