What is dust

What is dust? (The abandon nature. And the wasted material. About identities and existence)

“Among recent researches, the analysis of dust has appeared as one of the newest and most surprising. Yet, upon reflection, one is astonished that it has been necessary to wait until this late day for so simple an idea to be applied as the collecting, in the dust of garments, of the evidence of the objects rubbed against, and the contacts, which a suspected person may have undergone. For the microscopic debris that covers our clothes and bodies are the mute witnesses, sure and faithful, of all our movements and of all our encounters.”

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Locard, Edmond, The Analysis of Dust Traces, American Journal of Police Science, 1(3), 1930, 279-298.

I found dust in my bedroom in my living room. At the very beginning, my intention is try to get rid of them in order to keep my room clean, without the trace of others and myself.

When I look at the dust lying on my coach clearly, I remember why they are there.

A rolled a cigarette. Leave some tobacco particles on my table. B eat a cookie and coffee this morning, that’s why there are cookies crumbs on my coach; coffee trace on my table.

As the witness of all the small things happen to my life. The dust and trace keep reminding me.

Fellow the notion of how physical material like dust exists in a particle manner form to state a piece of narrative when I look at them. i quote from forensic expert Edmond Locard's case study.

Case III- The analysis of dust trace. Part III. From Edmond Locard. “The X........ Case (H. Gross). A crowbar had been found on which were traces of brick dust.' About 10 or 12 centimeters from the sharp end of the bar was a rough area due to rust, in the midst of which a red spot could be seen. Under the microscope it was ascertained that this spot was nothing more than the remains of brick dust incrusted in the iron. Therefore, it was beyond all doubt that this roughened area of the iron bar had been applied quite heavily on a brick. In a certain burglary, a similar instrument had been used as a lever to breakdown a wall. Presumably the crowbar had been introduced into the wall and pressed against a brick-hence the red spot. Now, as the crowbar continued in use, and the brick dust could not remain on it very long, it was almost self-explanatory that this instrument had been employed in the robbery.”

“every contact leaves a trace.”

This principle of exchange asserts that in any encounter between bodies, objects, materials, and spaces certain residual traces are deposited and exchanged. These points of contact between entities can be mapped scientifically to link the distribution of bodies and objects within space.

Dust scrambles the material signals of objects and events, transmitting complex information from one space to another.