Jorge Otero-Pailos The Ethics of Dust Author:Daniela Zyman, Daniel Birnbaum, Jorge Otero-Pailos In Jorge Otero-Pailos' installations, the act of preservation is freed from its historic investment in stabilizing architecture. In The Ethics of Dust, he employs the cutting edge of conservation science to probe cultural, political, ethical and aesthetic definitions of architecture as it intersects with science and psychoanalysis.