MohamedAmir VtP Annotation

This visualization provides a clear sense of the proximity between everyday life and the infrastructure of extractive industries, while also juxtaposing the essay's three apparent main characters: the Waorani, the forest, and the oil roads. The subject of the child evokes anxieties about the future of Waorani bodies and about the heightened dangers of childhood exposure to toxins. The shadowing at the edges of the image center the child as the focal point, and the pipes form a natural break between the foreground of the road and the background of the forest. The caption provides a succinct structural description of Waorani's notions of wellness, contrasting the positive features of the forest with the negative features of the road.