While looking for some images of e-waste art from around the world I came across artist Chris Jordan. His work is thought provoking and makes you feel a little ill at the massive amounts of consumption. The below images are from his Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption. He has just completed a new book called Running the Numbers which looks at the collective consumer behaviours of Americans. New Zealander’s collectively don’t consume anywhere near the same levels as the US but we do consume and for some products in the hundreds of thousands (and millions for cell phones).
And where does it all go when it is no longer wanted? When it becomes waste?
Chris Jordan Circuit Boards Atlanta 2004 via Inhabitat
Chris Jordan Cell Phone Chargers Atlanta 2004 via Inhabitat
Chris Jordan Cell Phones 2007, Depicts 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones disposed of in the US every day.
Chris Jordan Cell Phones 2007 Partial Zoom
Chris Jordan Cell Phones 2007 Actual Size
