What this image makes clear and contemplative are the connections, interactions, and interfaces of contamination in the human body. Through what the makers refer to as, "feedback loops," this image illustrates not only how toxic environments are created, but also hoe those get into the body. I believe this image shows quite successfully the flesh as pumped with chemicals and the clouds of pollution that loom above a rather dystopian landscape.The image provides a felt sense of infrastructures and their failings. Whether it be the wheat, the syringe, or the machine this image is particularly visceral, especially given that it is monochromatic and drawn. I think the hand-drawn feel adds to the embodied feel of this piece as sickness is portrayed, felt, and rendered. I get a sense of exhausted organs and depleted strength. I feel overwhelmed and weakened by not only the markers of ill health but the disempowerment of Egyptians at the hands of capital and state power.
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