Digital Artist Chris Jordan at Greener Gadgets

Chris Jordan is an amazing digital artist whose work reflects the problems of e-waste and mass consumption with startling images. Running The Numbers: An American Self Portrait is an incredible series that portrays unimaginable amounts of waste created in the US, like from plastic toys or paper cups.

For instance, what do the two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes, look like in one place? His digital work reflects these numbers visually. His work is not easy to describe, it must be seen – which is Jordan’s premise for bringing these statistics into a visual interpretation.

The artist recently spoke at the Greener Gadgets conference as the keynote speaker, mostly on his series Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption. A video is now available at Inhabitat. Also check out Chris Jordan Creates Beauty from E-waste and his website for images of all his work, ChrisJordan.com.