These images were produced using trinitite that Gabriel Martinez’s grandmother collected from his hometown, the site of the world’s first atomic explosion. To produce them Martinez placed trinitite on x-ray sheets in reference to an incident which occurred between the detonation of the first atomic bomb outside of Alamogordo, NM and those dropped on Japan weeks later: The loss of dozens of batches of x-ray sheets in 1945 at Eastman Kodak. Without knowledge that atomic weaponry existed, an internal investigation at the company led to the realization that river water used by the paper mill that produced cardboard dividers in boxes of x-rays was contaminated with plutonium. The sheets were compromised with hot spots from the proximity of atomic materials and true to their purpose spoke to the harm threatening the body and the extent of atomic fallout contaminating bodies of water.