Slow Violence.

The article focuses on Hannah Chalew's 2020 drawing *Embodied Emissions*, which depicts an oak tree intertwined with a chemical plant in LaPlace, Louisiana, a site within the Mississippi River petrochemical corridor known as "Cancer Alley." The artwork, created on handmade paper from sugarcane and shredded plastic waste, highlights the environmental racism and "slow violence" caused by the carcinogenic chemical chloroprene emitted by the plant, which exceeds safe exposure levels. Chalew's large-scale, textured drawing emphasizes the inseparability of nature and industrial pollution, inviting viewers to consider the embodied experience of environmental harm. The piece was featured in the 2021 exhibition "Eco-Urgency" at Wave Hill, a public garden and cultural center in New York.