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Decarbon-Fuzzification is an interruption that curates the decommissioning of oil refineries as a popular phenomenon. Fuzzification makes the transmutation of these deeply scarred sites softto-the-touch, legible, and engaging. These troubled, reckless, and harmful geographies finally receive ameliorative care that is simultaneously local support and global spectacle. All 129 United States refineries are physically draped with a massive, fuzzy, pink polyester-fleece blanket as they are decommissioned and repurposed, thereby monumentally and dynamically choreographing both a landscape and cultural transition.

Fuzzification takes immediate action in addressing some of the world’s most problematic, and complex sites. Refineries are the nexus of the oil system; the system at its most legible, (quasi) public, and immediately harmful. These sites embody vehemently toxic traits and outputs that correspond with a culture dominated by the toxic masculine tendencies towards domination, control, greed, and destruction. The interruption brings attention to the fraught nature of these banal and tragically sublime