Andrei Molodkin is a Russian artist obsessed with oil; when he was in the Russian military he would work with in and eat oil spread on bread as a sort of drug. He sees many problems in the world today and in Russia as being connected to oil, he sees oil as the blood of Russia, and oil corrupts.
He is also obsessed with ball point pens, which he would draw with extensively during his military time and still does today. For him, ink is the life of the pen. When you use up all the ink, you have killed the pen.
According to Andrei, if ink is the blood of the pen, and oil is the blood of Russia, then ink and blood are the same. You use the pen for ink so you can make your letters and drawings, and you exploit people for the sake of oil.
He uses oil and ink already extensively in his works, and wants to start using oil/blood from human bodies in his projects as well. If oil is blood, and human bodies (and their blood, naturally) can break down into actual oil, then it is the same for Andrei. He feels that bodies into oil would just be speeding up the process. If beer and vodka come from organic sources with chemical alterations to get them there says Andrei, then why can't he do it with humans?
He already has some volunteers to be turned to oil after they die, including a BBC reporter and a French adult film star.
Andrei Molodkin is mostly known for his 3-D sculpters inside acrylic plocks pumped with Chechen and Iraqi oil.
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