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... jetzt, wo der Wasserschaden aus #61 wieder behoben ist... Cans Seurat, 2007
60x92"
Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds. 
Ihr dürft gerne näher treten... 
...nicht so schüchtern... bitte noch näher... ;-) 
Zum Künstler geht's hier lang: chrisjordan.com/ Seine Intention bzgl. dem Projekt "Running Numbers": Running the Numbers
An American Self-Portrait
Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month.
This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the roles and responsibilities we each play as individuals in a collective that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming.
~chris jordan, Seattle, 2008 Statistiken zum Begreifen...ganz tolle Sache! -----------
Happiness is when:
What you think, what you say,
and what you do are in Harmony.
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