Crude_Cover_Up
Crude Cover-Up
by Rachel Binah
"Crude Cover-Up" 2010
4'5" X 6'8.5"
Mixed Media Collage Painting
Paper, Aluminum Screening, Fabric, Acrylic Paint, Pastel
Rachel Binah
4'5" X 6'8.5"
Mixed Media Collage Painting
Paper, Aluminum Screening, Fabric, Acrylic Paint, Pastel
Rachel Binah
For more than 20 years, I have been nagging, cajoling and pestering every elected official and candidate in my path. I've made a fool of myself, been bossy and obnoxious. California Democrats have been especially sensitive to the dangers and destruction that drilling imposes. Now, in these emergency times, Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown, two ocean activists, need our help. Their opponents want to expand drilling along our precious coast.
After the frightening explosion, death of 11 workers and horrific oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the whole world is talking about offshore oil. But there is no joy in saying I warned you. I am almost speechless.
So heartsick, I could only listen on tv to the reportage of the oil vomiting into the Gulf of Mexico. I couldn’t watch the sickening images of pelicans and other sea life smothering in oil.
Angry and depressed, I feverishly worked cutting, pasting and painting, a huge abstract collage. I call it "Crude Cover-Up”. It depicts my sadness, feelings of futility and the devastation of the spill. In my piece, veils of transparencies overlay the viscous horror, the culpability of BP, the Minerals Management Service for allowing them to do whatever they wanted and the oil industry’s rapacious greed. Having made billions they couldn’t be bothered to plan for the contingencies or buy the technological devices which are necessarily inevitable from accidents in resource extraction. The Environmental Impact Reports for ALL oil companies drilling in the Gulf are IDENTICAL. They were written for oil drilling in Alaska and discuss cleaning off walrus’ -- which have never lived in the South -- as any grade school child would know.
There are so many questions. Everything they did that was wrong. What’s next?
We must support our President, Party, and people of conscience. We must stand up and stop the wanton destruction of our environment, our climate, and our planet. By seriously developing alternatives to fossil fuels we can also create jobs, energize our economy and end our dependence upon foreign oil. Will we pull off the fig leaves of deception and avarice? Will you help? Work on campaigns to elect Democrats.
Rachel Binah
Democratic National Committeewoman
Chair Emeritus, Environmental Caucus
After the frightening explosion, death of 11 workers and horrific oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the whole world is talking about offshore oil. But there is no joy in saying I warned you. I am almost speechless.
So heartsick, I could only listen on tv to the reportage of the oil vomiting into the Gulf of Mexico. I couldn’t watch the sickening images of pelicans and other sea life smothering in oil.
Angry and depressed, I feverishly worked cutting, pasting and painting, a huge abstract collage. I call it "Crude Cover-Up”. It depicts my sadness, feelings of futility and the devastation of the spill. In my piece, veils of transparencies overlay the viscous horror, the culpability of BP, the Minerals Management Service for allowing them to do whatever they wanted and the oil industry’s rapacious greed. Having made billions they couldn’t be bothered to plan for the contingencies or buy the technological devices which are necessarily inevitable from accidents in resource extraction. The Environmental Impact Reports for ALL oil companies drilling in the Gulf are IDENTICAL. They were written for oil drilling in Alaska and discuss cleaning off walrus’ -- which have never lived in the South -- as any grade school child would know.
There are so many questions. Everything they did that was wrong. What’s next?
We must support our President, Party, and people of conscience. We must stand up and stop the wanton destruction of our environment, our climate, and our planet. By seriously developing alternatives to fossil fuels we can also create jobs, energize our economy and end our dependence upon foreign oil. Will we pull off the fig leaves of deception and avarice? Will you help? Work on campaigns to elect Democrats.
Rachel Binah
Democratic National Committeewoman
Chair Emeritus, Environmental Caucus