These images are found and created by the ethnographer. The ethnographer indicates her own location in relation to the official stories of landmines in Colombia. She suggests that insights into toxicity can be gained from occupying a particular position - on the ground, seeing politics in practice - and observing official visualisations of toxicity from that place. The interplay between the found and the created make this essay a political commentary on a project of 'progress', where one could be led to believe that the elimination of red dots on a map is an elimination of threat. This is a counter narrative, posed through imagary. The aesthetic of the created visuals is documentary-style: another form of truth-telling set against state maps.
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