This comment was written by Chelsea Larymore on 8 May 2019.

Postcolonial Speculative Fiction

Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave

Something you mentioned that I really appreciated with this body of work is that you don't have to have a background in art to fully experience it. When I visited this show, I left my art training at the door and instead tried to focus on the petro-fiction genre and the commentary the work was making. One of the things I distinctly remember thinking was that the work is representative of how we've let oil become so entangled and intertwined in our lives, it's difficult to see the way out. It is so ingrained in modern society that undoing the problem could be considered nearly impossible. This thought occurred to me as I looked at these intricate, entwined, laser-cut layers and tried to determine where one ended and another began. Much like these works, the petro-problem has become so tangled and messy that an end is almost indistinguishable.

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