The moodiness of the sky is most immediately striking in this image. The eye is immediately drawn to the slant of the plane, wondering whether this is the orientation of the frame or the ground itself.
This image is interesting in how the subject seems to constantly vacillate between the two figures in the foreground of the frame, the soil, and the intense sky. The image does not immediately evoke "climate change" without the textual prompt, but the viewer certainly gets the sense that the human subjects in the photograph have been living with/in this environment in the ways their focus is not fixated on the intensity of the sky in the same way the viewer is.
I feel the work with affectual plains is very strong. This piece enacts a certain affectual swirl that anyone who has felt a strom coming will know well. This photo has bodily and sensorial information certainly, in the facial expressions as well as what appears to be a quickened pace in the strides of Pancha and Chon. The photo brings a sense of movement, temperature, and thought. The open and freshly-tilled soil suggests a certain precarity. We think about labor and bodily ways of knowing the land. We consider the farmer's relationship with weather, land, and environemnt.
The dimension captured in this image is most obviously spatial: "the juxtaposition of the space reserved for community use and well being amidst environmental hazards and everday exposures," as Jerome Crowder puts it.
I would describe this image's subject as climate change. I read the image in line with the "follow the thing" approach to ethnography in which following climat echange in CA allows for the production of this visual cascade.
immitative collage
In light of the inspiration from Piet Mondrian, I would suggest it would be helful to quite literally add a "frame" to the image (i.e. a black framing as seen in Mondrain's work).
In all honesty, prior to reading the text I was unsure how to digest this image. The center image of the dominoe seemed to stand out (though on initial reading not in a way that was signifing of how to "read" the image). I then noticed the varying charts and wondered if (how) it was important for me to understand the graphic details of the charts within the image.
I am unsure how to be interpellated as a subject as I am at once a lifetime contributor to climate change in CA as well as a current/potential victim of this cascade.
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.
