"The 3 E's, usually stated as Environment, Economy, and (Social) Equity, are widely recognized in the Sustainability Movement, as the three supports of a successful future for planet earth.
In this series of works by Chris Jordan, you will see the reversal of the 3E's, beautifully assembled. Sometimes art is the clearest way to say a thing."
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Running the Numbers
An American Self-Portrait
This new 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 tend to 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 $12.5 million spent every hour on the Iraq war. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.