Media: photographic inkjet print
Dimensions: 60 by 120 in.
Date: 2007
Chris Jordan was born (1963) and raised in Connecticut. He graduated from law school and practiced corporate law for ten years, but eventually left the legal profession in order to pursue his passion and embark on a career as a photographer and visual artist.
His photo collage "plastic bottles" from 2007 shows a mass of two million plastic bottles, which is the amount of bottles discarded every 5 minutes in the United States. Jordan sees his artwork as a comment on the culture of mindless consumption and destruction of resources prevalent in modern society. In his own words: "As an American consumer myself, I'm in no position to finger wag; but I do know that when we reflect on a difficult question in the absence of an answer, our attention can turn inward, and in that space may exist the possibility of some evolution of thought or action. So my hope is that these photographs can serve as portals to a kind of cultural self-inquiry."
Artist's website:
www.chrisjordan.com
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