Check out the work of Chris Jordan
He was featured this Sunday in the NYT.
ARTS / ART & DESIGN | July 24, 2005
A Great Big Beautiful Pile of Junk
By PHILIP GEFTER (NYT) News
Here is a statement from his website.
As I explore around our country’s industrial yards and waste facilities, where the accumulated detritus of our consumption is exposed like eroded layers in the Grand Canyon, I find evidence of a slow-motion apocalypse in progress. I am appalled by these scenes, yet also drawn into them with awe and fascination. The immense scale of our consumption can appear desolate, macabre, oddly comical, full of irony, even strangely beautiful; for me its consistent feature is a staggering complexity. Perhaps our vast piles of junk can serve as visual metaphors for the difficult questions that we Americans face as the earth's most voracious resource gluttons. Chris Jordan
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