We are dependant on oil, and we have denied this and its impending future for a very long time, while satisfying our immediate desire to drive. For this work, I am interested in using oil and its visible infrastructure as one of the best examples we have of our ability to be addictive beings, and to deny clearly perceived needs when they conflict with our momentary desires.
My feelings towards this industry are the same for its products and its visual structural forms. I am quite fascinated by how these refineries, storage containers, and exhaust stacks look. They are like mystical, Byzantine cities, beautiful and threatening, inviting and very, very repelling.
This work also picks up the theme of entropy. The law of thermodynamics is quite simple: energy cannot disappear, it can only transform. In these images, I am interested in showing an ambiguous form of rot overtaking the refineries.
