New York Times
Sept, 3, 2010
An Oil Rig Burns, Blanketing the Gulf With Angst
Seriously? At what point do we get the message? It is brutal and cruel than New Orleans in the Gulf Coast have endured the wrath of nature's response to the human industrial complex. It also seems like a preview, fore-shadowing. Not only could it be anywhere, it may be everywhere in the not so distant future. My hope for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast is that end up contact in more quickly than the rest of us because environmental crisis has hit them hard, fast, and first. Something like Cuba, which went through the energy crisis first after Russia cut off their oil resources. Now Cuba is a role model for a post oil economy. If you don't know about this, see the documentary " The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil". You can also And in a read just about any book by Richard Heinberg.
The collage above on the left I made in response to this article in the New York Times...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/us/03rig.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=sept%203,%202010&st=cse
I'm also attaching above on the right the collage I made a few days after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion first happened in the Gulf. I felt helpless not only the situation itself but also in how we communicate my emotional response to it. Creative expression was a good place to start. It felt good using a ads promoting oil companies and transforming them into commentary on the destruction they lead to environmentally, socially, politically, militarily.
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