Power, 2011
Installation at the Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA. Cut handmade denim paper, illumination and cast shadow, 2011
Petroleum’s shadow is cast over America’s overwhelming need for energy and petroleum-based products. Not only is petroleum a source of energy, it is intrinsic in the struggle for political and economic supremacy. In turn, its consumption contributes to spiraling conditions of pollution and global warming. Petroleum’s presence in our lives is so overwhelming large we cannot see it. We will continue to remain in its shadow until each of us as individuals takes responsibility for our petroleum usage, and decides to limit it.
