Playing With Fire
GASLIGHT
Watercolor woodblock (mokuhanga)
17" x 11" (43 x 28 cm)
Shapes derived from four video stills of fracking flares.
Gas•light [gas-lahyt] verb
To cause (a person) to doubt his or her sanity through the use of psychological manipulation.
The shapes in this print are derived from a video of gas flares from a fracking well, but I couldn't resist the double-entendre with the psychological term "gaslighting," which is being used often this year as people discuss the condition called narcissistic personality disorder and whether or not the president of the United States suffers from it. Gaslighting is one of the things that narcissists do.