Imagine Architects, Tea Seed Oil Plant, Wuyuan, China, 2016
Pipeline Crossroads of the World Monument, Cushing, OK, 2006
Aerial of the City of Cushing, OK, 2015
A geography of fossil fuel dependence and surplus as the main oil storage location in the United States.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Wall - 13,000 Oil Barrels at the Gasometer, Oberhausen, Germany, 1998-9
Richard Misrach, Norco Cumulus Cloud, Shell Oil Refinery, Norco, LA, 1998-2012
[Many contemporary sculptures] are products of an object culture, a post-Duchampian period in which the idea of the readymade has been so absorbed that an object from life is as obvious a material for art as oil paint, and a post-Rauschenbergian time in which the battle between the plop sculptural cash-and-carry object versus the mythic uncommodified work of art has lost its vitality.
Laura Hoptman, "Going to Pieces in the 21st Century" from Unmonumental, 2007
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Transnational Institute, Diagram of The Finance and Fossil Fuel Web, 2013 (via writingcapital)
'Banks and Oil not only make up the most wealthy corporations, they sit on each other’s boards and their executives include some of the world’s most powerful political and social institutions. This infographic aims to provide an insight into one dimension of the state of corporate power in 2013.'
Global Sperm Whale Catching, 1800s-1980s
Thornton Fagan Architects, George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries in Hancock Park, Los Angeles, 1975-7 (via latimes)
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Ten Million Oil Drums Wall: Project for the Suez Canal, 1972 (via archiveofaffinities)