I am interested in studying the embodied and affective manifestations of climate change in addition to evaluating the landscapes and environments that are also viewed as embodying the changes of climate change. My interests therefore lie within the human-non-human networks of affective entanglements. In going forward with visualizing this project, I will be building upon my past preliminary research done in Coamiles, Nayarit, Mexico with ejidatarios. I will specifically be attempting to visualize the ways in which the ejidatarios that I worked with (many of whom are 40 years or older) have aged and transformed alongside and because of the land/landscapes they work and engage with. In attempting to visualize this, I hope to illustrate the everyday, intimate, and possibly even mundane changes in both body and land that ejidatarios experience and articulate as climate change. I find this pertinent to the work of visualizing toxic subjects since it forces us to look into the forms of toxicity we may possibly look over, that being the slow, bodily experiences of aging bodies. I also hope to illustrate how these more quotidian narratives compare to how climate change is popularly imagined. In doing so, I aspire to locate where the everyday experience of farmers lie within broader Anthropocene and climate change debates. I will thus primarily be utilizing on my own personal photography, the images produced by the farmers themselves, in addition to archival material.
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