Artist Chris Jordan makes digital images depicting just what and how much Americans use and discard every day. This, for instance, is an image of the two million plastic bottles that the US uses and throws away every five minutes.
He’s also done an image of 65,000 cigarettes, one for every teenager who becomes addicted to smoking per month; an image of jet contrails; plastic and paper bags thrown out, and many others. This puts our own actions in context in a very powerful way: it’s not just me, it’s us, and this is what we do and this is the debris we leave behind.
Found indirectly via Gawker.
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It was nice of someone to put them all in one place so that he could draw them.
I love this, thoughtful art.
Yes Vicus, I think he did this one at Earth Day in Central Park. Glad you guys liked it; be sure to check out the (very slow loading) site for the other pix and detail shots.
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