Oil Junkies
We scramble to exploit the oil that is now accessible while climate change
(a result of our oil addiction) causes the polar ice-caps to melt,
in the same way a junkie looks at the legs for injection points
after amputation of an arm caused by drug injection.

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Acyrilic and varnish on discarded packing ply.
Plastic syringe and tubing placed in glass bowl containing petrol.
The Bowl is backlit with videos (and audio) of television advertising promoting the addiction.

The viewer inhales the vile fumes when enticed to look closer at the glossy advertising.

The desolate landscape of oil refinaries and factories is
pushed out beyond the horison, obscured by smog, out of sight.

 

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