Two opposite phrases were most manifest in her caption: “friendly community engagement” and “extent of police powers.” While the left picture illustrates a bunch of police officers with a smile during their community engagement activities, the right image shows the real state of the power of LASPD that can possibly threaten the safety of the student body.
I liked the way in which you commented on the image as "here I am." I thought it was an interesting parallel to ethnopgrahic reflexiviity, the ethnographic present, as well as ethnographic presence. While, upon first glance, I would not necessarily gather that this image is a reflection of waning industry, home, or labor I found the description to be helpful to situating the visualization. In many ways, I feel as though your image is ethnographic in the way that it brings you, the producer of the text and image, into its realization.
This image captures state-sanctioned measures by South Korea to uphold their nation-building that are anti-black and highlights the extent that they are willing to go to, to maintain a racially homogenous nation. This image further complicates the idea of toxicity depending on whose view is being advanced. On the one hand, the toxic subjects according to the image are the mixed-race children because they defy racial notions in South Korea and would contribute to defying the patriarchy that South Korea seeks to sustain.
My immediate impression of this image was first I felt very sorry for these brown babies who were left alone and suffered from starvation after wars. Also, it is very shameful and irresponsible that the Korean government did not properly include mixed-race children as our own citizens and enlarge the boundaries of nationality, but rather ostracized them.
“Siphoning, economic development, social welfare structure” were the most salient words while I was reading Shannon’s essay. It was incisive to point out that adoption appears to some degree benevolent, but at the rear of it, there was a blueprint of the South Korean government dodging the social infrastructure for vulnerable children. According to Shannon’s account, the South Korean government could save money through international adoptionduring 1960s-70s, when there was rapid economic development in South Korea, instead of constructing a social welfare system.
My first focus stayed on the rectangular box that says “baby box” -> then the above orange box and its contents-> Finally, my gaze ended up at the two banners on the right pictures. While my eyes moved around these images, I tried to digest how these visualizations captured the toxicity of Shannon’s theme. The images capture a way of contemporary Korean society dealing with illegitimate children, who are with disabilities or unwanted, through religious organizations and adoption agencies.
The primary strength of this image is the juxtaposition of the various media representations of climate change. To somehow demonstrate in the image itself that these images were pulled synchronously would strengthen the message, perhaps through dating the image as a whole or positioning it under a screenshot of your Google search.
The juxtaposition of these various images and headlines sheds insight into the ways toxic climate change is always represented in multiple, diverse ways. The composition of the photo shows the ways in which climate change requires cross-scalar definition and representation.
The graininess of the screenshotted images is striking and gives the image a sense of movement.
The white/ blank pieces of this image have a certain organization to them and denote an airiness that works with the content. I appreciate the simplicity of the screen shots and the arrangement as well. The part of your work that deals with popular imagery up against the mundane and pedestrian is intriguing. How do we make the point that catastrophic is slow and contamination creeps? Especially in the face of the imagery you point to herein, which does make a spectacle of inevitable collapse. How could we show that contamination endures?
