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Emily Johns What the Oil is Thinking

Six large etchings The black goo of the printer’s ink spreads the oil thin enough to see its story.

The Prospect and the Prospector

I met a man who had been an engineer in the army in Iraq during the first Gulf War. He then spent 15 years prospecting for oil from Nigeria to Alaska. He told me which geology journals to look for in the British Library and how with sound imaging they could look inside the earth and make amazing pictures of its strata and faults.

155cm x 90cm