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Chris Jordan's digital images are simultaneously aesthetically pleasing and thematically disturbing. From a distance you detect a pattern, and colors. It's only upon close inspection that you recognize the subject matter.

 He sees himself as half artist, half activist, always walking a fine line inbetween the two without veering too much to either side.  His latest body of work, "

," uses digitally manipulated images to tell the story of our daily consumption. He writes:

Jordan doesn't limit himself to consumption, he also takes on more social commentary. In this work, he depicts 2.3 million folded prison uniforms, equal to the number of Americans incarcerated in 2005.

Other images depict the number of people who die from smoking, the number of elective breast surgeries performed monthly, and the number of emergency room visits each year related to misuse or abuse of prescription pain killers.

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Chris Jordan's digital images are simultaneously aesthetically pleasing and thematically disturbing.

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