“Utilizing the cyanotype process, Mason calls forth these ideas of categorization in her translations of images of backscatter x-rays made at the border into cyanotype objects she dubs Backscatter Blueprints. Sourced from the internet chat groups of “Minutemen” —the ad-hoc vigilante groups that patrol the border for illegal crossings¬—the images are coldly scientific in their purpose: to expose undeclared products and people entering the U.S. ”