Running the Numbers
Feb 6, 05:10 PM
If there is one thing I certainly need more of in my life….it’s guilt.
If you are the same, check out Chris Jordan’s “Running the Numbers” exhibition. It’ll make you feel all warm and cuddly inside.
Running the Numbers 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, such as we find daily in articles and books.
The following work depicts 170,000 disposable Energizer batteries, equal to fifteen minutes of Energizer battery production.
