This visualization cleverly (and ironically) adresses the non-visualized and even the 'non-representational.' The ethnographer turns to an illustration by L.A. artist Stephanie Birdsong to draw our attention to an over-reliance on visuality when we are trying to understand and communicate taboo, toxicity, etc. While the illustration appears playful it vitalizes difficult questions about how we 'see' (or struggle to) our relationships to spaces of decomposition and death: How do we sensually navigate such spaces? And by extension qwhat are the relationships between our sensorial lives and the production of toxicity?
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