James Adams: Toxic Public Welfare
This image is a photograph/fits within the genre of photography. I would have a hard time specifying it any further.
This image is a photograph/fits within the genre of photography. I would have a hard time specifying it any further.
This image captures the discourse around drug use and HIV and therefore induces/enables a meta-analysis of the logics, ethics, and rhetorics being deployed to frame these issues.
The pile of needles drew me to the center of the photo, to the mess of needles. It was visceral.
Contained mess.
I am viscerally drawn to stare at the pile of needles.
Voyeur, out of context, questioning.
The messiness of the needles shows an overwhelming toxicity. The way the box is cut off and how it is turned in the photo stop me from having any sense of stability in the image.
The image is made up of almost all plastic materials except the needle which is not visible. Additionally, all the syringes are empty. This it reminds me of modernity's false promise of individualism. The used syringes are empty and in their collective pile within the orange box point to the social disarray produced by a medical apparatus that individualizes health, addiction, and safety.
Outcomes of anti-community health.
Contained disarray.