Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017 by the artist John Gerrard, depicts the site of the 'Lucas Gusher' - the world's first major oil find - in Spindletop, Texas in 1901, now barren and exhausted. The site is recreated as a digital simulation and placed at its centre a flagpole bearing a flag of perpetually-renewing pressurised black smoke.
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WESTERN FLAG (SPINDLETOP, TEXAS) 2017 A new commission by artist John Gerrard from Channel 4's Man-Made Planet. Depicting as a real-time simulation, the now barren and exhausted site of the first major oil find, "Lucas Gusher" in Spindletop, Texas. From April 21-27 "Western Flag" will display on the the Edmond j.