SOHEILA SOKHANVARI, «Paradise Lost,» 2017,
crude oil on paper, 20 pieces, 38 × 38 cm each.
She called
the crude oil on paper and board Scalar, after the Italian for ladder, but a scalar, too, is an entity in math — one with zero spatial dimensions, like a further concentration of paper, walls, and room.
Not exact matches
Both Rockburne and Dunham explore wood in different forms: the former used nails,
crude oil, chipboard, and
paper, while the latter employed gouache, charcoal, and pencil
on veneer.
The women too, used materials that weren't arty — like Dorothea Rockburne using
crude oil and chip board and cardboard,
paper, things that people found
on Canal Street.
This is clear in works like Scalar (1971), with its planes of chipboard and
paper stained with
crude oil, and in the carbon -
paper drawings installed
on both the wall and the floor, a series
on view here in depth for the first time in forty years.
What this means is that boom, which is like a long tube of
paper towels and used to contain and absorb
oil floating
on the surface of the water, is not going to work when this heavy dilbit
crude oil sinks to the bottom of Lake Maumelle.
I have to admit that a few things in this Science Daily article went over my head for lack of a complete scientific training, but in essence it seems to be saying that according to a
paper published in Enviromental Microbiology (not quite my bedtime reading), an indigenous microbiota of the Galician shore (northwest Spain, south of the Bay of Biscay, north of Portugal) is able to degrade
crude oil and could be used
on spills.