Some interesting work from artist Chris Jordan. Chris is working on a series titled "Running the Numbers, An American Self-Portrait" in which he looks at contemporary American culture through a statistical lens. The artist's statement:
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...This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from tens-of-thousands of smaller photographs.
The top image is titled "Supermarket Bags", and it depicts 1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags, the number consumed in the US every hour. The bottom image is titled "Shipping Containers", which depicts 75,000 shipping containers - the number of containers processed through American ports every day.
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