fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days agoWant to know the grotesque truth about the oil industry? Then look at their tacky paperweights
I find them so alluring, almost like perfume bottles or snow globes, but so grotesque, she explains as we handle the etched and sculpted objects, which each have a precious drop of crude oil at their centre. They have these shiny, dazzling exteriors, but when you get close you see the death mulch inside. All presentations of power are fragile; they collapse once you get close enough.
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