February 26, 2005
Mass Consumption - Cell phone waste - Mindboggling
Space and Culture via Clippings.reblog has a picture of (zillions) of discarded cell phones (Orlando), and another of cell phone chargers (Atlanta).
The photography by Chris Jordan is part of an exhibit titled Intolerable Beauty — Portraits of American Mass Consumption shown at the Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.
Our consumerism holds an anesthetizing kind of mob mentality; collectively we are committing a vast and unsustainable act of taking, but we each are anonymous and no one is in charge or accountable for the consequences... So perhaps my photographs can serve as portals to a kind of cultural self-reflection. It may not be the most comfortable terrain, but I have heard it said that in risking self-awareness, at least we know we are awake." - Chris Jordan
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