Fastforwardfossil;Part2, Drawings

2009
oildrawlandscape

Fastforwardfossil; Part 2, Drawings, 2009

exhibited at Smack Mellon, 2009

These drawings are based on a close study of the inner workings of Ireland’s only oil refinery in Whitegate, which I had access to in August 2009 through the Sirius Art Centre residency. By using shifts of scale between the macro and the micro, they depict a dystopic future based on rampant oil consumption. The worlds in the drawings are drained of color, but filled with the flux and spillage of a potentially chaotic future.

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