JaworskiSophia VtP Annotation: Installing Lungs

This visualization advances ethnographic insight by bringing together questions of the materiality of post-coloniality with questions of air toxicity impacted by significant cultural events such as Diwali. It raises important considerations about ‘non-molecular’ toxics and the sentiment that they are difficult to trace, as they are always on the move. By publically illustrating the density of trapped PM 2.5 particles over a relatively short period of time, it creates a sort of monument of atmosphere which stands in contrast to the colonial war monument in the background of the image.