The Ethics of Dust: Doge’s Palace, Venice, 2009 is an installation resulting from the experimental preservation of the pollution accumulated on the Doge’s Palace of Venice. Traditionally, only the intentional products of human labor, such as art or architecture, have been considered part of our cultural heritage. Pollution is a formless byproduct that was never intentionally shaped; yet it is perhaps our civilization’s most significant cultural product. Otero-Pailos’ preservation of pollution expands the notion of world heritage to include our unintentional outputs.> >