Artist Doug Aitken explores placelessness from a U.S. desert town built on oil

Artist Doug Aitken visits an unnamed desert town ringed by oil fields, where petroleum is both the source of local pride and its greatest scar.

A contemplative artist's look at a town whose whole identity is soaked in oil.

Travelling through the desert landscape of the American West, an unnamed town with a population of 5000 sits encircled by oil fields. Built on oil drilling and excavation, it stands as the home of the biggest oil spill i

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