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Evan Hepler-Smith: Toxic Environments: ineffective boundaries

It strikes me that the first and third images in this series render toxicity differently from the second. This image and the first juxtapose two forms of order. First, there's the order of petrochemical production--long lines of cylindrical tanks capped by OHSA-approved guard rails, cooling towers, pipe clusters running parallel and perpendicular to one another--. Second, there's the order of the residential neighborhood--well-pruned trees, wooden telephone poles, small parks, backyards, vinyl siding.