Oil platforms attrack my attention. As enormous sea-insects, they dominate various coast lines, sucking black sirope out of the ocean’s bottom. I always wonder what’s life like there. A seemingly autonomous zone full of hard working men (?), responsible for the aquirement of this complex natural resource. Complex and powerful in many ways, environmentally, economically and politically.
While we didn’t get access to the oil platform, I visited the oil plant – with a scale model of both the plant and the rig – on the Taranaki coast. With my medium format camera, I captured the plant in twilight. (The images below are snapshots from my digital camera, since I haven’t been able to digitize the analogue slides yet)
