These images do a great job in showing how these toxic tours take place and where they are located. There are mentions of community and community spaces, and the image of the park showcases human interaction with those spaces most explicitly. However, I wish I could see more of that contrast between spaces in which people interact daily and those spaces that are toxic. Also, what are some of the conversations around these sites?
Contradictions
I would describe the dominat genre of this imge as lanscape. It would be interesting to provide a map of these sites to give a broader picture, and then these images serve as zooming in.
As I address in my annotation on the third image in this essay, I was really struck by the scrap metal, the vegetation on the near side riverbank, and the muddy bayou. Scrap, scrub, mud: dis-orders of industry, life, and earth.My initial reaction is to conflate dis-order and disorder -- that is, to take this environment as pathological, and the environments captured in the other two photos as normative expressions of the prevailing social and economic order in Houston-Galveston.As a second-order reaction to this immediate impression, I wonder whether, thinking with e.g.
