Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017 #art #installation #sculpture #flag Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017 depicts the site of the 'Lucas Gusher' - the world's first major oil find - in Spindletop, Texas in 1901, now barren and exhausted. The site is recreated as a digital simulation and placed at its centre a flagpole bearing a flag of perpetually-renewing pressurised black smoke. source: johngerrard [dot] net/western-flag-spindletop-texas-2017.html