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Chris Jordan : “Edge-walking the lines between art and activism”

[caption id="attachment_4195" align="aligncenter" width="555"] E Pluribus Unum, 2010, image via Yes![/caption] It's hard not to appreciate the work of Chris Jordan. His work Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption (2003 - 2005)  and his ongoing series, Midway: Message from the Gyre (2009 - Current) give us some of the most haunting visuals of the new century and are a stark reminder of our distance to the precipice. Here's a look at some other of his works that lean our way: E Pluribus Unum (pictured above): a 24 feet square, composed of aluminum panels laser etched with the names of "one million organizations around the world...

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