Chris Jordan's Response

Chris Jordan’s work points out some facts and statistics that causes problems in the American society. He is showing some examples of addictions such as, smoking, abuse or misuse of prescription drugs, and breast augmentation surgeries. For each piece, he uses the right object hoping to trigger people’s feelings of anger or grief back. To clarify, he used prisoners’ uniforms to present the 2.3 million american prisoners in the american prison in 2005, while he used barbie dolls to present the 32000 of breast augmentation surgeries that happens in America each month. Moreover, Jordan is not only showing the statistics visually, he is also creating a piece of art for each topic. For example, to raise awareness of the number of people dying each year from smoking cigarettes, he created a collage of boxes of cigarettes laid out to create the painting by Van Gogh “skull with cigarette”. In other words, Jordan is choosing the right visual to present each data for each topic, and laying the visuals in the right layout to create an appropriate big picture for the topic. In my opinion, his work is really inspiring people and other artists. He is using art to raise awareness and deliver an important message to people, which is what art is all about. Furthermore, he is using technology to help them rethink their decisions. Hoping for people to start changing our societies for the best.