Chris Jordan's Running the Numbers, An American Self-Portrait, is an incredibly poignant piece about American consumerism. On his website he says, "in risking self-awareness, at least we know that we are awake."
Paper Bags, 2007/ 60x80"
Depicts 1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags, the number used in the US every hour.
Please go to http://www.chrisjordan.com for more of his startling images.
We need to start living consciously and recognize the interconnectedness of life and how our actions affect the universe as a whole. We are all one, and we are in this together.
To put it simply, evolve or die.
1 comment:
absolutely. i wish we charged $1 per bag at the grocery store. then i think people would actually remember to bring their own.
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