Me ha llegado la información de este artista fotógrafo a través de mi gran amigo Ralph Tiemann. Chirs Jordan habla del consumismo en América usando números y estadísticas, las cuales revela de manera singular en imágenes hechas a partir de fotografías de cosas como botellas de plástico o muñecas Barbies entre otros. Más allá de lo estético de la imagen, lo que me interesa de Chris Jordan es su trabajo artístico que lo desvela como un activista innato y además necesario. Ésto me hace pensar en los arquitectos y artistas de hoy en día, somos básicamente comunicadores de ideas, por qué no usar esta potente arma para hacer consciencia y dejar mejores aportes a la humanidad?. Aquí dejare al mismo Chirs Jordan con un texto literal.
Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption
"Exploring around our country’s shipping ports and industrial yards, where the accumulated detritus of our consumption is exposed to view like eroded layers in the Grand Canyon, I find evidence of a slow-motion apocalypse in progress. I am appalled by these scenes, and yet also drawn into them with awe and fascination. The immense scale of our consumption can appear desolate, macabre, oddly comical and ironic, and even darkly beautiful; for me its consistent feature is a staggering complexity. The pervasiveness of our consumerism holds a seductive 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. I fear that in this process we are doing irreparable harm to our planet and to our individual spirits.
As an American consumer myself, I am in no position to finger wag; but I do know that when we reflect on a difficult question in the absence of an answer, our attention can turn inward, and in that space may exist the possibility of some evolution of thought or action. So my hope is that these photographs can serve as portals to a kind of cultural self-inquiry. It may not be the most comfortable terrain, but I have heard it said that in risking self-awareness, at least we know that we are awake."
