Name: 【TED】Chris Jordan: Turning powerful stats into art (Chris Jordan: Turning powerful stats into art)
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My work is about the behaviors that we all engage in unconsciously,

And what I mean by that, it's the behaviors

and the ones that operate below the surface of our daily awareness.

And as individuals, we all do these things, all the time, everyday.

Or when you drink a little too much at a party, just out of anxiety.

Or when you overeat because your feelings are hurt, or whatever.

when 300 million people do unconscious behaviors,

then it can add up to a catastrophic consequence

And that's what I look at with my photographic work.

This is an image I just recently completed, that is --

it looks like some kind of neo-Gothic, cartoon image

it starts looking like lots of pipes, like maybe a chemical plant,

or a refinery, or maybe a hellish freeway interchange.

you realize that it's actually made of lots and lots of plastic cups.

And in fact, this is one million plastic cups,

which is the number of plastic cups that are used on airline flights

We use four million cups a day on airline flights,

and virtually none of them are reused or recycled.

They just don't do that in that industry.

by the number of paper cups we use every day,

and that is 40 million cups a day for hot beverages,

I couldn't fit 40 million cups on a canvas,

but I was able to put 410,000. That's what 410,000 cups looks like.

That's 15 minutes of our cup consumption.

And if you could actually stack up that many cups in real life,

You can still see the little people way down there.

and I put the Statue of Liberty in there as a scale reference.

Speaking of justice, there's another phenomenon going on in our culture

that I find deeply troubling, and that is that America, right now,

has the largest percentage of its population in prison

One out of four people, one out of four humans in prison

are Americans, imprisoned in our country.

The number is 2.3 million Americans were incarcerated in 2005.

And that's gone up since then, but we don't have the numbers yet.

So, I wanted to show 2.3 million prison uniforms,

each uniform is the size of a nickel on its edge.

They're tiny. They're barely visible as a piece of material,

and to show 2.3 million of them required a canvas

that was larger than any printer in the world would print.

And so I had to divide it up into multiple panels

This is that piece installed in a gallery in New York --

those are my parents looking at the piece.

I always wonder if my mom's whispering to my dad,

I want to show you some pieces now that are about addiction.

And this particular one is about cigarette addiction.

I wanted to make a piece that shows the actual number of Americans

More than 400,000 people die in the United States every year

And so, this piece is made up of lots and lots of boxes of cigarettes.

you see that it's a painting by Van Gogh, called "Skull with Cigarette."

It's a strange thing to think about, that on 9/11,

when that tragedy happened, 3,000 Americans died.

and will continue to reverberate through time.

It will be something that we talk about in 100 years.

And yet on that same day, 1,100 Americans died from smoking.

And the day after that, another 1,100 Americans died from smoking.

And every single day since then, 1,100 Americans have died.

And today, 1,100 Americans are dying from cigarette smoking.

And we aren't talking about it -- we dismiss it.

We just dismiss it out of our consciousness.

And knowing what we know about the destructive power of cigarettes,

we continue to allow our children, our sons and daughters,

to be in the presence of the influences that start them smoking.

And this is what the next piece is about.

This is just lots and lots of cigarettes: 65,000 cigarettes,

which is equal to the number of teenagers

who will start smoking this month, and every month in the U.S.

More than 700,000 children in the United States aged 18 and under

One more strange epidemic in the United States

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【TED】Chris Jordan: Turning powerful stats into art (Chris Jordan: Turning powerful stats into art)

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