Oil Platform

Description

Œuvre originale, encre de Chine sur carte maritime. (Pièce unique)

This nautical chart of South Africa (Durban to Tugela River area) serves as the backdrop for a meticulous depiction of an offshore oil platform. The Indian ink, applied through cross-hatching and stippling in the manner of old engravings, renders the industrial architecture with near-mechanical precision—while allowing a quiet sense of strangeness to surface.

Black smoke rises slowly, merging with the inverted coastlines of the map — as if the land itself were exhaling a fossil memory. The work stands at the boundary between technical drawing and contemporary allegory — a reminder of our dependence on fossil energy, inscribed directly onto the sea.

Signed artwork, sold with a certificate of authenticity.