Chris Jordan, an artist from Seattle who produces a lot of commentary work on consumerism, has produced a series of work called Running the Numbers. In this work is a painting called Light Bulbs, which makes commentary on the 320,000 kilowatt-hours wasted by the United States every minute through things most of us probably don’t think of often – computers in stand-by, poorly engineered wiring, leaving the lights on, etc.
The work is huge, as in size – 72″ X 96″ (six feet by nine feet), and includes 320,000 images of a light bulb to represent each wasted kWh.
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The works in Running the Numbers are all along this theme of over-consumption. Check out some of his current works here, and check out his portfolio here. Running The Numbers is showing at the Kopeikin Gallery in Hollywood until October 17, 2009.
Well, if you could convince my boss to let us turn the computers off at the end of the day instead of leaving them on all night, that’d be a start.
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