oil spill project - oil paintings

[ashling]

This is an idea that I would like to do, but I don't have the time or access to materials (the BP oil spill) I thought that some of our eastern gulf coast Artistic Duers might think this is a good idea too.

This oil is going to come ashore and be cleaned up. What to do with it then?

This won't make a difference to the amount of oil, but,

I wanted to use some of the recovered oil to create pieces of art which can then be auctioned off -> proceeds to Audobon, etc. The oil could be tinted as necessary, and used to creat abstract and expressionist or ink drawings.

I know I am crazy, but I've come to accept it and its not so bad, really ...

[GReedDiamond]

1. How are we going to get the "cleaned up" oil shit...

...into the hands of such crusading artists as you suggest?

Marcel Duchamp used an accumulation of New York City air pollution/grit, way back in the period of 1915-23, on his "The Bride Stripped Bare, by Her Bachelors, even." He positioned the pane of glass on which he was applying lead and oil paint on a rooftop in New York City, and left it for six months, then carefully removed almost all of the resulting debris which floated down from the air, leaving the debris only in the areas of the composition on which he wanted it, over which he applied a lacquer to seal it to the glass.

Duchamp was prescient in his awareness that industrialization was ultimately poisoning the environment, and he used it as a function of his concept of the use of "accident" in the service of "art," in the execution of the "Bride..," aka "The Large Glass."

On edit: The Large Glass was also all about cookie cutter mechanization of humankind, and incorporates "love gasoline" as the source of energy for the continuing operation of the device Duchamp concocted.

This BP oil platform "accident" is inexcusable, as it was predicted, by Dadaists and Surrealists, up to at least 80 years ago, to be the byproduct of Capitalism run-amok.

But I still don't get how artists are going to get oil to work with from the underwater oil volcano...?

On edit 2, added the word "almost."
Also edited for clarity.

[ashling]

2. From besches and marshes

which are now, or soon will be , covered with the goop

if you live on the Gulf area affected or know someone who does ...

[kurtzapril4]

3. The stuff is poisonous.

cool idea, though.