Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan
Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption

http://www.chrisjordan.com/

Jet Trails, 2007
60x96"
Depicts 11,000 jet trails, equal to the number of commercial flights in the US every eight hours.

Skull With Cigarette, 2007 [based on a painting by Van Gogh]
72x98"









Cans Seurat, 2007
60x92"
Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds.

George Segal (1924 - 2000)

George Segal (1924 - 2000)

“Vocabulary is absent in the categorisation of worldly objects - excluding machinery. Therefore, can one classify the (‘luxuriant growth’) of objects?"

- ‘The System of Objects’, Jean Baudrillard (translated by James Benedict), 1996, Verso (London), ISBN 185984068