Black Snake is a series of interventions that follow the route of the Dakota Access Pipeline to reveal how its contentious existence has inflicted social and environmental grief. The project takes an activist role by singling out acts of dominance embedded in the pipeline’s controversial history. Each act of dominance, tied to a site, has been analyzed through the lens of atonement, aiming to reveal tensions between oppressor and oppressed as a necessary step towards reconciliation.

 

Through the theme of atonement, the project aims to expose the pipeline’s invisible components, including oil industry malpractices, the resulting environmental degradation, infringement of land ownership and violation of water rights.