This urban industrial environment was created in the process of gathering materials to pave the roads of Chicago, Its creation erased the natural marshlands that were there prior, replacing them with streams of dirt roads from truck tracks. I returned the truck trails to rivers of the dust left behind by their tires and gathered open source map data of the city’s road maps to juxtapose those roads with a map of the city’s waterways that they interrupted.

As toxic as the idea of the nature we existed within, was the reality of that nature itself. The real, physical toxins beneath our feet seeping under the foundation of our homes. The 25 wards that make up most of the south and west sides of chicago have both of lowest median income and life expectancy. They manage this while also having the highest levels of environmental pollution and number of dump sites for industrial waste. These wards are shown above over that waste. Below Is an image that juxtaposes two sides of the same insurial site,  a shot of big marsh artificially rehabilitated across the street from the remains of an abandoned factory, buried beneath that factory is a capped toxic dump site.