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Yellow Bulldozer 2022
by Jonathan Oakes
Mixed Media on paper (Conte crayon, ballpoint pen, coloured pencil and gouache)
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h 20 x w 29 x d 1 cm h 7.9 x w 11.4 x d 0.4 in |
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Description
Why do we need to dig so much? Always there are holes in the ground. We look inside the Earth and rip out the insides, causing devastation and deep scaring, apocalyptic scenes around the wound.
When the precious things are dragged out there must be a profit to be made, but to whose benefit? We are still working here, dirty clay clinging to our feet. The demand is manufactured as it wasn't so badly needed before. We could not get, we could not have, we did not want. The things we found were rightly rare. There must be a limit on just how much we really need. Try to find the previous extractions there is surely enough to go round. We cannot be content when always seeking ore.
The bigger the digger, the bigger the hole to bury me in. The growth of demand necessitates the growth of production. Bigger quarries, deeper mines, larger devastation, roads built through the wilderness. Clear mountain streams, redirected sluiced and polluted. And bigger and bigger diggers and trucks trundle in to move the wasted Earth.