February 27, 2005
Beautiful junk
Chris Jordan, Circuit boards, Atlanta 2004
Artist John Taylor's ships made from found objects.
Chris Jordan's photographs: Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption. And Flickr: The Urban Decay Pool (links from wood s lot). From Jordan:
Our consumerism hold 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.
Elephant Dung Paper and Paper-Products and Kangaroo Dung Used to Make Paper. Okay, so maybe those two aren't, strictly speaking, "beautiful" ...
Bags Made from Strange Materials. Okay, but felt-tip markers? Skateboards? (from TreeHugger).
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