Follow the Oil

33”h x 28”w

Petroleum has become the gold and currency of our world, representing the primary resource of wealth and power which is driving international corporate profits and government policies. Our country continues to make alliances with, and war against, countries based on our ever-changing assessment of threat to an abundant and profitable supply of oil.

It is my hope that this art quilt’s many foreign languages, the varied images of human suffering, political intrigues, terrorism and citizen protests – overlaid with ghostly reminders of the oil industry and our turn-key war machinery – evoke in the viewer a similar recognition of the destructive tapestry of our government’s political motives.