I found these images by Chris Jordan haunting…

“This new series 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….Statistics tend to feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with [them]….”

Cans Seurat, 2007 | Digital C print, 6×7 feet
“Depicting 106,000 aluminum cans, equal to the number of cans consumed in the US every thirty seconds.”

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