1 15 1 https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/7510b0aa3d6727f2ae18910476142fc5.pdf 7c6e6827e10d40dbe1ecf66c20a0aa4b PDF Text Text ___l �ry I :"rr -i f.ry i-l: tr- G*,€ F*El ; l3 t I j tl -\ :':, * [fl d':ff 'li ;&,,;*ffi#-g{BiijBil r @1 f t lf"f,a: .' if l- .;-' I 14 Ae::..1,4ii',* -iE#-{.rEr d*-F.r' $ :i ri r,i, rg-I I-IIlnr id d lf. i t4dlqi Etda d. f;=, f,! -fif t,-' fnf,',i, ;ni ntrr+4s4Yr . .fi,',t-di'frt![r-,ff ri'j ru ,Ji,r "'ryJ ':\eJ &fl,';Er,;-a? -.Er'-i l '"'l ?*i Cans Seurat (detail), 2007 iJ G_'.'{ l'-ri-J �of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: two million plastic bottles (five minutes of bottle use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. Finding meaning in these mass phenomena can be difficult because the phenomena themselves are invisible, spread across the earth in millions of separate places. There is no Mount Everest of waste we can make a pilgrimage to and behold the sobering aggregate of our discarded stuff, seeing and feeling it viscerally with our senses. Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens Instead, we are stuck with trying to comprehend the gravity of our mass phenomena through the anaesthetizing and emotionally barren language of statistics. Sociologists tell us that the human mind cannot meaningfully grasp numbers higher than a few thousand; yet every day we read of mass phenomena characterized by numbers in the millions, billions, even trillions. Compounding this challenge is our sense of insignificance as individuals in a world of 6.7 billion people. And if we fully open ourselves to the horrors of our times, we also risk becoming overwhelmed, panicked, or emotionally paralyzed. I beiieve it is worth connecting with these issues and allowing them to matter to us personally, despite the complex mixtures of fear, grief, and rage that this process can entail. Perhaps these uncomfortable feelings can become part of what connects ange! us, serving as fuel for courageous individual and collective action as citizens of a new kind of global community. This hope continues to motivate my work. This project visually examines these vast andbizarre measures of our society; in large intricately detailed prints assemble d from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the roles and responsibilities we each play as individuals in a collective that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and over"whelming. -chris jordan, Seattle, 2008 �l{F I I Doroonl r\n \rarren- Wlkes Universiry =i;t:$'l#ii:;;;; Tel 570-408-4325 Fax570-408-7733 edu,/sordoniartgallery Gallery Hours: Noon 4:30 p.m., daily wilkes. Cans Seurat, 2007 Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds. Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 355 \4tlkes-Barre, PA � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource 2011 August 29 Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption, Photographs by Chris Jordan Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Chris Jordan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2011 August 29 - December 11 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Description An account of the resource In Running the Numbers, artist Chris Jordan creates intricate photographic prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs, visually depicting statistics that dramatize aspects of contemporary American culture. Type The nature or genre of the resource Exhibition program Subject The topic of the resource Chris Jordan mass consumption photographer photography Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Perlman Teaching Museum