A Visualized Concept
"This image employs montage to illustrate how to think about global toxicants, such as mercury, in their multiple and shift- ing forms valences. My intent with the design of this montage is to keep the affinities and curious sensibilities of mercury left open, using these juxtaposed images—as valences—to draw out how artisanal gold miners, indigenous communities (in- termingled or the same), and sex-workers (a companion in- dustry to natural resource extraction around the globe) con- tribute to epidemiological toxicity and 2) the kinds of "toxic" or volatile assets of neo-colonial resource extraction."