Caroline Sinders

The Rig, 01; 2023 The Rig, 01 is a mixed media video piece exploring a futuristic world in which the narrator, voiced by the artist, has overtaken an abandoned oil rig and reclaimed it as her new home. This world is one where climate change has accelerated, impacting Louisiana, the artist and the narrator's home state. Louisiana, like many states along the Gulf of Mexico has an economy deeply intertwined with and dependent upon oil and petroleum services, even as that industry ravages the environment. Many small scale oil rigs dot swamps and the Gulf of Mexico, with many being 'abandoned' or closed by the companies, but still remain physically. In generating the videos and images used in this project, the artist found an abandoned oil rig, which serves as the rig in this video. In this video, the artist grapples with both grief and hope, situating resiliency, with nature retaking the oil rigs in the video, along with a barrel yielding magnolias, the flower of Louisiana. Video link Caroline Sinders artist website