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If "Mosaic painting of small objects made into big pictures by Chris Jordan" is not shown property. Visit the source link above.
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Running the Numbers
An American Self-Portrait
This series looks at contemporary American culture through the
austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity
of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes
of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can
consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these
quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers
alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can
feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect
with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for
example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 410,000 paper cups
used every fifteen minutes. This project visually examines these
vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately
detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
The underlying desire is to emphasize the role of the individual in
a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and
overwhelming.
My only caveat about this series is that the prints must be seen in
person to be experienced the way they are intended. As with any
large artwork, their scale carries a vital part of their substance
which is lost in these little web images. Hopefully the JPEGs
displayed here might be enough to arouse your curiosity to attend
an exhibition, or to arrange one if you are in a position to do so.
The series is a work in progress, and new images will be posted as
they are completed, so please stay tuned.
~chris jordan, Seattle, 2007
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| Plastic Cups, 2008 |
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| Barbie Dolls, 2008 |
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| Plastic Bottles, 2007 |
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| Skull With Cigarette, 2007 |
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| Toothpicks, 2007 |
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| Jet Trails, 2007 |
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| Cell Phones, 2007 |
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| Paper Bags, 2007 |
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| Cans Seurat, 2007 |
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| Paper Cups, 2008 |
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| Prison Uniforms, 2007 |
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| Cigarettes, 2007 |
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| Building Blocks, 2007 |
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| Denali Denial, 2006 |
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| Pain Killers, 2007 |
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| Handguns, 2007 |
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| Plastic Bags, 2007 |
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| Office Paper, 2007 |
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| Valve Caps, 2006 |
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| Ben Franklin, 2007 |
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| Energizer, 2007 |
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| Shipping Containers, 2007 |
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