Spill-Drain Mechanics
Spill-Drain Mechanics imagines a moment when an oil spill erupts beneath a Gulf city, coating the landscape in a chromatic film. The series unfolds across two temporalities: the moment of the spill and the subsequent years of its residue slowly draining back into the earth.
In Spill, the moment of rupture is hypersaturated and strangely alluring. Here, oil is not merely a pollutant but becomes a spectacle. These images capture the aesthetics of excess, ornament, and petro-cultural display, situating the spill as a moment of visual and environmental dislocation.
When drained, we are transported in time. The colour has receded. What remains is residue, faint stains, dulled surfaces, and the slow seep of memory into the ground. It is not a post-apocalypse. It is not the aftermath. It is the quiet persistence of what refuses to disappear. In this space, time itself is not linear, but cyclical, folding in on itself.
Together, the series presents a system that exists between event and echo. If Spill is excess embodied, Drain is debris embedded.