American artist Chris Jordan uses images to convey our incomprehensible reality

We see and hear the numbers all the time, every day, on news programs, out of people's mouths, we spout them ourselves - the amount of money spent on the war in Iraq; the number of plastic bottles consumed every hour; the number of flights criss-crossing our atmosphere on a given day. They are dizzying in scope, confounding in scale: the compounded rate of our consumption corresponds to the contamination, corrosion and constraints with which we are now coming face to face as we confront the global crisis of our time. Seattle-based American artist Chris Jordan attempts to help us understand these abstract numbers by using the materials, machines and metaphors at the root of each issue, in dazzling and complex arrangements. Prints are available for order on the website.

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