Sweet Crude | John Ensor Parker + Johnny Moreno
                                                                                                           
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the largest offshore spill in U.S. history. The Flow Rate Technical Group and the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that the leak spilled as much as 60,000 barrels, or 2.5 million gallons a day.

Sweet Crude is a multi-channel video installation that visually interprets the quantity of flow from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill with video, light and movement. This is accomplished by creating a volume with partitions and screens. On the center projection channel, footage of the leaking well pipe is projected. The other perimeters of the volume have a red/brown color projection that starts at the floor and moves upward filling the room. The rate of which the oil rises is real time calculated by the flow rate of the pipe and the capacity of the volume. Once filled, the process starts over and continues ultimately running the full duration of the spill.