Running thenumbersvisualizingus consumptionhabits
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This is art work by Chris Jordan For more photographic art visit his website http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/midway/#CF000313%2018x24
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Running thenumbersvisualizingus consumptionhabits
- 1. Running the Numbers: An American Self Portrait http://www.chrisjordan.com
- 2. One million plastic cups…. …the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours
- 3. 410,000 paper cups… …the number of disposable hot-beverage paper cups used in the US every fifteen minutes.
- 4. two million plastic beverage bottles… …the number used in the US every five minutes.
- 5. 1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags… …the number used in the US every hour
- 6. 106,000 aluminum cans… …the number used in the US every thirty seconds.
- 7. 30,000 reams of office paper… (15 million sheets) …the amount of office paper used in the US every five minutes
- 8. 3.6 million tire valve caps… …one for each new SUV sold in the US in 2004
- 9. 426,000 cell phones… …the number of cell phones retired in the US every day.
- 10. 8 million toothpicks… …the number of trees harvested in the US every month to make the paper for mail order catalogs
Editor's Notes
- Running the Numbers An American Self-Portrait Artist: Chris Jordan From Chris Jordan, Seattle, 2007” “ Running the Numbers 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 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the role of the individual in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming.”