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That’s what it took Chris Jordan to create this version of Seurat’s Grande Jatte – equal to the average number of plastic bottles consumed in the United States every minute.
No doubt you’ve seen Seattle-based Jordan’s work as he explores American (and our) consumerism. Or, in art-talk:
His work explores contemporary mass culture from a variety of photographic and conceptual perspectives, connecting the viewer viscerally to the enormity and power of humanity’s collective will.
For more, here are the collections of Running the Numbers I and Running the Numbers II.
