Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait
Building Blocks, 2007
16 feet tall x 32 feet wide in eighteen square panels, each sized 62×62″. Click on any image to see a larger view.
Depicts nine million wooden ABC blocks, equal to the number of American children with no health insurance coverage in 2007.
Partial zoom:
Detail at actual size:
Toothpicks, 2007
Depicts 8 million toothpicks, equal to the number of trees harvested in the US every month to make the paper for mail order catalogs.
(This one reminds me of Green Dimes, a service to help you reduce the amount of junk mail you receive. It’s ridiculous you have to pay for something like this, though. A better option might be to utilize the Mail Preference Service.)
More at Chris Jordan Photographic Arts.
aaron :: Jul.07.2007 :: Sustainability ::