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All Blog Posts Tagged 'Running the Numbers II: Portraits of global mass culture' (1)

Classic Art Recreated Using Plastic from the Ocean & Lighters



The Great Wave is a classic image we see again and again, but artist Chris Jordan puts a new twist on it by recreating the unmistakable piece with 2.4 million pieces of plastic. His reinterpretation, entitled Gyre, is composed entirely of plastic collected from the Pacific Ocean. Jordan takes massive global matters like man-made environmental pollution and…

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Added by Pinar on May 31, 2012 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

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