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.
And the winner is...
Words by Zoe Leonard
Friday's blackness
Today is the day to shop. Did you get the intercontinental memorandum in your inbox this morning? I got around 76. Everything is on sale today. Arms, legs, eyes. Ikea is selling my spleen for $8.99. In the electronics department of Target customers can bid on the outer folds of my vagina. Victoria's secret just slashed the price of my eyebrows to $3.78. Tomorrow you may see pieces of me on others. You may walk into Powells and notice my elbow is attached to a man named Dirk. My left ankle will surely belong to a woman named Leonora who works at the Honda car dealership in Milwaukie. My lips, unpuckered and unpainted, will be slapped on the face of a Chinese American man called Egon. Get me while I'm hot. Name your price. Time is running out.
