I like the graphic on the left side that says "Pollution Has No Borders." I'm not sure if your caption explains where exactly this part of the image comes from, but I think elaborating on that would make the image ethnographically stronger.
This image emphasizes the spatial distribution of toxics moreso than the contents of air pollution itself. The mapping asks us to question borders, and to question both the notion of absolute control over toxic spread and the notion that toxic spread can be intentionally manipulated.
This visualization invites you to think about the toxins invisible in the image itself, and the ignorance around these chemicals when it comes to envisioning the future of this proposed housing development. The message this visualization conveys is that there is something more sinister that is obscured by the image of this "imagined community" and "fantasy leisure culture." While the toxicity being conveyed through the image is not immediately known to the viewer, the captions do well at revealing what is not visible to the eye.
Elaborate on who this proposed housing project would actually be for. You seem to hint at it being affordable housing which is juxtaposed with these images of a leisure culture. Perhaps toxicity also lies in the process of enclosing lower income communities in places of chemical toxicity?
This is a found image and the creator is listed. It is clear that the image was produced to illustrate the future of this proposed housing project. It does spark many questions, in particular, what is excluded from the image to create this utopic imaginary?
The image is able to work well alongside the lengthy caption. I'm wondering if there is something, even if it is text or a chemical symbol that could be incorporated with the image to give an immediate sense of toxicity.
The visualization with the caption considers the future of this housing project as a toxic place, particularly due to the chemicals present at the site of its proposed construction.
The photograph of the Foothill Plant provides ethnographic insight about how archival images can foster reflection about how toxicity becomes emplaced at different sites, as well as how it not only initially transforms that place but how it evolves through structural change - social, discursive, material, representational, economic, etc. Toxicity is ironically revealed to me as an 'enlivening' process evidencing the reproduction of certain mobilizations of power and their concomitant arrangements of society. Archival imagery provides productive evidence of this process.
I think the caption is comprehensive enough. Although, being finicky, Nadine may make mention of theoretical/conceptual influences that helped to shape the archival turn and how/why this particular image caught her eye. In so doing, the caption could open a path for those interested to explore the methodological approach that is being championed here.
This is a found image, located through archival work (it appears). The aerial view works well to provide an overview of the territoriality of toxicity as well as its structuring effects e.g. contruction of border, zones, bridges, and the like. It may be productive if this composition was contrasted with ground level imagery that takes the viewer into the everydayness of this structural toxicity and how it subsequently can orientate us to the point of not being aware of its scale thus fostering an acceptance of it (or resignation to it?).
