I think this image could use a discussion of your own experience of this archive, how you came upon its gaps and exclusions, and how this informs your understanding of toxicity. How did you find this image? Where was it located? Did you ask anyone for help? What do/did the people who work there have to say about your investigation/critique of their space? How does this archive, as a physical/digital space that also has a specific cultural connotation as authoritative source of information feed into the toxicity? Is it this archive in particular that is toxic or "the archive" in general? Or is it the exclusions within the archive that are toxic? Or, rather, are these exclusions merely indicative of the more widely dispersed cultural-toxins of US/Californian/LA society? Or is it some form of combination?
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