What's The Rush?

On view at Cal State Fullerton (and co-curated by our very own Krystal Glasman!) is "What's The Rush".
Says the OC Weekly:
"We live in a fast-paced society. (You may have heard that before.)
What you very likely have not done is considered the implications as deeply or creatively as the artists featured in “What’s the Rush? Topics on Convenience,” an exhibit that thoughtfully muses on the things that are supposed to make our lives easier."

Chris Jordan is one of the featured artists, his pieces are fantastic.
In Chris' bio he says:
"Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on.
My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month.
This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the roles and responsibilities we each play as individuals in a collective that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming."

Chris' artwork certainly makes one think about consumption and the role everyone plays in this mess.

426,000 cell phones are retired in the United States.....EVERY DAY.Two million plastic beverage bottles are used in the United States.....EVERY FIVE MINUTES.