Chris

Jordan
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s Seattle based artist
s His works are created from photographs of garbage
and brings insight the Americas consumption issue.

Stone of the Sun, 2011, 44x44 and 60x60

Depicts 92,500 agricultural seeds, equal to one hundredth of one percent of
the number of people in the world today who suer from malnutrition. To
illustrate the entire statistic 925 million seeds would require ten thousand
prints of this image, covering more than eight football elds.

Venus, 2011 60x103 in one panel

Depicts 240,000 plastic bags, equal to the estimated number of plastic
bags consumed around the world every ten seconds.

Gyre II, 2011 44x 56 and 60x76

Depicts 50,000 cigarette lighters, equal to the estimated number of
pieces of oating plastic in every square mile in the worlds ocean.

Year of the Tiger, 2010 62x62

Depicts 3200 toy tigers, equal to the estimated number of tigers
remaining on Earth. The space in the middle would hold 40,000 of these
tigers, equal to the global tiger population in 1970.

Cigarette Butts, 2013

Depicts 139,000 cigarette butts, equal to the number of cigarettes that
are smoked and discarded every 15 seconds in the US. Cigarette butts are
the number one littered item found in America.

Building Blocks, 2013 14x20 feet

Depicts 1.2 million childrens building blocks, equal to the number of
students who drop out of high school every year in the US. This averages
about 7000 students per school day.

Car Keys, 2011 60x86

Depicts 260,000 car keys, equal to the number of gallons of gasoline
burned in motor vehicles in the US every minute.

Cans Seurat, 2007 60x92

Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans the number used in the US every thirty
seconds.

Dog and Cat collars, 2009, 60x67

Depicts ten thousand dog and cat collars, equal to the average number of
unwanted dogs and cats euthanized in the US every day.