I got there via a rather convoluted path (that I’ll spare you), and I cannot believe that I hadn’t seen this before but Chris Jordan is truly a talent and one with a strong social conscience to boot. Wow. His current work, called Running the Numbers: an American Self-Portrait, (not yet complete) is to produce art, not from a single photograph (though he does that brilliantly as well – see his work on Katrina), but by building a collage. What is unique about his work is that the number of objects he is depicting in an image, sometimes in the millions, is tied to some statistic – i.e. the number of paper grocery bags used in the US every hour (1.14 million). Some of the pictures are fairly uniform, depicting sheer volume with little form, in others he creates form from arrangements of said objects, often with a degree of irony (i.e. paper bags depicting trees).While the pictures really do tell a thousand words (or sometimes, as Mark Twain would espouse, far fewer), I found this review of his work, with a few extra words from him quite interesting – in particular, view the interactive feature.Have a look – you won’t be disappointed!