A year or two ago, I was privileged to view some of photographer Chris Jordan’s important art work at the Portland Art Museum. The following appears to be a closeup, covering only part of the photograph, which is 5′ high and 10′ wide. The photograph provides a visual representation of what the 2,000,000 plastic bottles discarded every 5 minutes in this country looks like.
Far more striking are the images at his website. This link will take you to a page where you can view the entire photograph that you see above, and by left clicking on the image, it will zoom in (considerably so) until you can read the labels on the individual bottles. Once on this page, you will see thumbnail images of other photographs which are part of this series, which represents only a small portion of his work.
Do yourself a favor and take a look for yourself. You will be amazed. Guaranteed!
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A year or two ago, I was privileged to view some of photographer Chris Jordan’s important art work at the Portland Art Museum. The following appears to be a closeup, covering only part of the photograph, which is 5′ high and 10′ wide. The photograph provides a visual representation of what the 2,000,000 plastic bottles discarded every 5 minutes in this country looks like.
Far more striking are the images at his website. This link will take you to a page where you can view the entire photograph that you see above, and by left clicking on the image, it will zoom in (considerably so) until you can read the labels on the individual bottles. Once on this page, you will see thumbnail images of other photographs which are part of this series, which represents only a small portion of his work.
Do yourself a favor and take a look for yourself. You will be amazed. Guaranteed!
bring back your liquid Tide containers for a refill at the market. Ah, but that would be logical.
Good stuff