Bears
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.
Bears
The drift of geological time. Oil is made mostly of zooplankton, innumerable tiny animals that lived in the sea and died. Polar bears evolved 200,000 years ago contemporaneous to the evolution of anatomically modern humans.
170cm x 90cm