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At AMOA, some interesting numbers
Next time you buy a cold drink in this hot weather consider this: According to artist Chris Jordan’s statistics gathering, in 2007 some 2 million plastic bottles were used every five minutes in the U.S.
Jordan’s based his career on documenting such mind-boggling numbers, photographing various arrangements of cell phones, prison uniforms, brown supermarket bags and so on, then printing the images in a monumental scale. His sea of 2 million bottles hints at the serene blurriness of Monet’s waterlillies. But then look closer.
See Jordan’s enormous photos in the exhibit ‘Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers’ at the Austin Museum of Art through Aug. 15. www.amoa.org
‘Plastic Bottles,’ 2007.
Detail of ‘Plastic Bottles,’ 2007.
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