In 1997 I had what I refer to as my oil epiphany. It occurred to me
that the vast, human-altered landscapes that I pursued and
photographed for over twenty years were only made possible by the
discovery of oil and the mechanical advantage of the internal
combustion engine. It was then that I began the oil project. Over
the next ten years I researched and photographed the largest oil
fields I could find. I went on to make images of refineries,
freeway interchanges, automobile plants and the scrap industry that
results from the recycling of cars. Then I began to look at the
culture of oil, the motor culture, where masses of people
congregate around vehicles, with vehicle events as the main
attraction. These images can be seen as notations by one artist
contemplating the world as it is made possible through this vital
energy resource and the cumulative effects of industrial evolution.
Edward Burtynsky
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