Oil Rocks (The City On The Caspian Sea)

2012





Oil Rocks (The City On The Caspian Sea) is a fragmented portrait of Neft Daşları, the floating oil city off the coast of Baku. Built in the mid-20th century as the world's first offshore oil platform, this industrial landscape exists between land and sea, function and ruin.

Through collage, I reconstruct the shifting reality of this space - its geometric structures, endless pipelines, and the precarious balance between human ambition and environmental forces. Cutting, layering, and reassembling archival and contemporary imagery, I reflect on how Neft Daşları embodies both progress and erosion, permanence and transience.

The act of collage mirrors the instability of this man-made island. Pieces are assembled and fractured, much like the city itself—an engineered structure that continues to expand, deteriorate, and exist in a state of constant transformation.


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