In front of Jannis Kounellis's Untitled, 1979, the narrator
draws our attention to Kounellis's use of industrial - strength
coal dust, and then traces BP's pre-history as the Anglo - Persian Oil Company responsible for tapping Iranian oil reserves — offering the country a paltry 16 % of profits.
Since 1996, Ligon has used the essay as the basis of his «Stranger» series, including prints,
drawings, and dense paintings made with oil stick and often
coal dust that oscillate between legibility and obscurity.