Go closer see the meaning! by Lida Habibi Rezaee https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk Examining the running number of plastic cups by "Chris Jordan" en-us 2018-10-25 03:52:17 UTC 2025-11-17 20:12:54 UTC hello@padlet.com l_h_rezaee https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296769389 2018-10-25 04:17:49 UTC https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296769389 Chris Jordan is an American artist born in 1963. (Jordan, Chris 2011)He creates one of the most impressive types of “Art Activism” which covers a broad spectrum of concepts thanks to huge statistics produced every day about different important subjects going around us in the world and thanks to the talent he applies to introduce this transnational art to our lives which translates statistical data to a tangible piece of art in a mystery-solving way. His works can be found on his website containing a fact and an image explaining it in a visual process which zooms into the picture and makes you guess about what is happening. l_h_rezaee https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296772073 2018-10-25 04:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296772073 To share my personal joy from seeing one of his works, I demonstrate the zooming process by a couple of photos (in order) from different steps. Just look at this first image for five seconds and then try to explain what you have seen. (stop reading please!) You probably end up with something close to” a factory spewing out pollution” –what the artist guesses in his TEDtalk–or something like that and in fact this transnational piece of art wants us to begin there, then when we have the chance to look at it closer we would see the “pipes” (as in second image) and finally we would recognize that the whole huge thing in front of us is made of one million single “plastic cups” that probably one of them is waiting for our next touch to drink ! l_h_rezaee https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296772913 2018-10-25 04:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296772913 l_h_rezaee https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296778037 2018-10-25 05:26:35 UTC https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296778037 l_h_rezaee https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296778543 2018-10-25 05:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296778543 three aspects images highlight+ the message of Artist l_h_rezaee https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296779034
1) The simple fact that “one million plastic cups are used on airline flights in the US every six hours” coming after the third image highlights a data that we don't know about, can't imagine properly or simply ignore

2) The layers and complexity seen in the second image emphasizes the complexity of consequences of the issue to human being

3)The dark color of first image addresses the dark side of using these cups

These plastic cups are not reused and not recycled. Jordan says: “My work is about the behavior we all engage in unconsciously on a collective level” and particularly by this work he invites the public to consider replacing usage of plastic cups with environment-friendly choices.  To get his concept conveyed even on a deeper level he puts a statue in front of his work to show the real scale to his audience in his TEDtalk show.
 

]]> 2018-10-25 05:32:55 UTC https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296779034 l_h_rezaee https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296783951 2018-10-25 06:10:35 UTC https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296783951 I believe only facing one piece of art like this is enough to trigger the mind to ask what are the other examples of statistical data that can be kind of better understood if translated like this? And there is a valuable collection of them prepared by Jordan to tell us more about “The behavior that we deny and the ones which are under our daily surface of awareness” as he describes them. So the effect goes beyond one issue and addresses a prospective…. l_h_rezaee https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296784418 2018-10-25 06:13:19 UTC https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296784418 References; l_h_rezaee https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296784581 Jordan,Chris, (2011)Ushirikiano: Building a Sustainable Future in Kenya's Northern Rangelands.





]]> 2018-10-25 06:14:15 UTC https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296784581 l_h_rezaee https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296785965 2018-10-25 06:21:17 UTC https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296785965 mail order catalogs l_h_rezaee https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296787553 9,960 of them, printed every three seconds in the US .]]> 2018-10-25 06:27:55 UTC https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296787553 aluminum cans l_h_rezaee https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296787759  106,000 of them are used in the US every thirty seconds.]]> 2018-10-25 06:28:51 UTC https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296787759 children's building blocks l_h_rezaee https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296787946 1.2 million of them, reflecting the number of US students who drop out of high school every year]]> 2018-10-25 06:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296787946 l_h_rezaee https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296795691 TEDtalk show]]> 2018-10-25 07:02:24 UTC https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296795691 l_h_rezaee https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296796426 Enjoy complete performance!]]> 2018-10-25 07:05:19 UTC https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296796426 Weakness? l_h_rezaee https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296797690 Although it is part of his frame for his works but still the fact that this piece of art needs an explanation coming with it can be considered as a point, causing us to think if  there is a way to embed the data itself in the image as well?]]> 2018-10-25 07:10:04 UTC https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296797690 Conclusion: l_h_rezaee https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296811565 I think this work , through a data-visualization method , effectively conveys the intended message.  It shows us how confusingly we don’t know how big we are affecting our environment when using a single plastic cup. So staring at your cup you may begin to think what a big number one million for only six hours is and then four million for twenty-four hours and……what am I doing drinking from this cup?]]> 2018-10-25 07:57:39 UTC https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/296811565 l_h_rezaee https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/312744734 2018-12-10 01:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/l_h_rezaee/qsa4kp1y65bk/wish/312744734