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| Ellen Driscoll - Fast Forward Fossil |
I
find Driscoll’s
work particularly interesting as she depicts the very possible future struggles
initiated by the hungry market for oil. This is highlighted more so by the
medium in which she has created the installation piece, plastic, more
accurately plastic from used milk and water bottles, 2600 of them. So not only
is she bringing awareness of the affects of oil pollution on our environment,
but also the shear scale to which this is happening and how it has developed
over the past three centuries. Within her 3-D model piece are depictions of
collapsing landscapes and deserted
plastic ridden dumps.
The
idea of movement is presented within this piece in the way of a sudden panic as
oil spillages contaminate the land and water levels around it. There is a sense
of movement in the way Driscoll has juxtaposed the black marks in an
unstructured yet central manner, to represent sudden oil spillage.