I think this image could use a discussion of your own experience of this archive, how you came upon its gaps and exclusions, and how this informs your understanding of toxicity. How did you find this image? Where was it located? Did you ask anyone for help? What do/did the people who work there have to say about your investigation/critique of their space? How does this archive, as a physical/digital space that also has a specific cultural connotation as authoritative source of information feed into the toxicity? Is it this archive in particular that is toxic or "the archive" in general? Or is it the exclusions within the archive that are toxic? Or, rather, are these exclusions merely indicative of the more widely dispersed cultural-toxins of US/Californian/LA society? Or is it some form of combination?
I think a conversation about haunting as really disrupting whole processes of knowledge production could be important here. This is one smudge/trace/part of the archive. One that is often neglected or completely ignored/written over. The interesting part here, though, is unlike many archives where there is a complete absence, this photo almost renders a partial absence. There is documentation. There is proof. There is some visibility, though small. What can you do with this small puzzle piece? How does something that was only documented on the periphery become the center?