Fracking Fracture

Artist: Rebecca Tolle

Year: 2021

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 12″w x 16″h

Frame: wood with glass

This original painting is currently on display at TOLLE FINE ART in Northfield, MN. To inquire about purchasing it, please visit the gallery or contact the artist using this form.

 

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Description

When I lived in Colorado, I gravitated toward the issue of fracking. Everyone should look that process up. To mine natural gas from buried shale rock, fossil fuel companies pump fresh water into the ground with chemicals. This allows them to harvest this non-renewable energy source, but it poisons everyone’s groundwater. This is the water that people access via wells for drinking, bathing, and cooking. The mining apparatus on the right peers over an eerie landscape, with a subterranean view of the oozing black gold, or blood, depending on your perspective.