Food for dog annotation 1 by Prerna

This visualization challenges the usual senses provoked by photo essays and conservative journalism around nuclear disaster sites: that a belligerent nature has once again taken over abandoned ruins of toxic industrialism (such as this National Geographic essay about animals living in radiation ecosystem of Chernobyl), of "life" in post-capitalist (or in some cases, communist or socialist accumulative practices) ruins. Conservation practices that center imagining sanctuaries for endangered wildlife are enlivened by such haunting toxic spaces on one hand. On the other, however, like this visualization so evocatively captures, centering nonhumans in a specific way ignores the very human practices of care, memory work, and community building in industrial toxic ruins. By showing vital life through an assembly of material artifacts that almost take on the form of a living monument, this created visualization (contributor's own)  that centers practices of human-nonhuman attachments disrupts the usual "takeover" narratives of wild nature in abandoned ruins by showing it is affect, compassion, and care that could create solidarities.