The Big Black Marble 2009 20 x 18 x 18 in. Globe, plastic vials, ink, cooking oil. This used to be a globe.  Now it’s more of a contraption.  Twenty plastic vials protrude from its surface.  The idea was to signify the largest petroleum fields on the planet.  So I blacked out the oceans and continents to represent the Earth as a black, crude-producing ball. Those vials are filled with cooking oil and ink.  Well, most of them still are.  […]

Categories: Perspiration, Unsolicited Opinions • Tags: art, crude, globe, Jessie Wilson, oil, petroleum