Oil Spill是艺术家Fabian Oefner虹色试验的新系列。他将水倒入纯黑的容器之中，再滴入细小的油滴。油滴随着水波扩散，逐渐变得绚烂而华丽，仿佛恒星爆炸时极具冲击力的明亮壮观，又恍如放大了数百倍的多彩虹膜。
光线穿过油膜，又回到相机镜头之内，多重的反射与折射带来了丰富的色彩变幻。随着油膜的扩张与稀释，色彩也由蓝变绿，再转为红色，最后渐渐消融在黑色的背景之中。
“我爱这个系列，它是如此简单，却又如此惊艳。那个雨天我坐在工作室的门外，看着残存的汽油痕迹在小水坑中慢慢变化，这个想法便在我脑子里逐渐成形。我回到工作室内，尝试在一个更为可控的环境中重复这个过程。在无数次尝试后，我得到了这10张照片。”－Oefner
“What I like about the series is that it is quite a simple phenomenon, yet strikingly magic and beautiful. It came to my mind when I was sitting outside my studio on a rainy day and observed a thin film of petrol on a water puddle. So I got inside again and started to recreate the setup in a more controlled environment. Finally, after many different setups and hundreds of images, the exploration resulted in these ten photographs.”－Oefner
This series is part of Oefner`s exploration of Iridescence. For this experiment, Oefner poured water into a black reservoir. With the aid of a syringe, he then added small drops of oil onto the water surface. Upon contact with the water, the oil started to expand and form into magnificent structures. Some of them seem to look like stars exploding, others look like a photograph of the iris.
The various colors result from the reflection and refraction of light, as it passes through the oil film and back into the camera lens. Depending on how thick the oil film is, the colors change from blue, green to red, until finally they disappear again.
