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gyre1Photographic artist Chris Jordan never ceases to amaze us with his clever pieces that allow people to "see" concepts that are often difficult to visualize. We submit for your viewing pleasure, his latest work, Gyre. Look familiar? The 8' x 11' triptych is based on the famous Japanese painting, "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai. Instead of paint, the colors are composed of 2.4 million pieces of plastic - the estimated number of pounds of plastic that enter the world's ocean's every hour! Gyre is the first image in a mini-series that Jordan is creating about the Pacific Garbage Patch, and is named after the Pacific Gyre, a thousand miles wide ocean current which turns clockwise like a giant slow-motion whirlpool and concentrates tons of the world's trash.1
gyre2Photographic artist Chris Jordan never ceases to amaze us with his clever pieces that allow people to "see" concepts that are often difficult to visualize. We submit for your viewing pleasure, his latest work, Gyre. Look familiar? The 8' x 11' triptych is based on the famous Japanese painting, "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai. Instead of paint, the colors are composed of 2.4 million pieces of plastic - the estimated number of pounds of plastic that enter the world's ocean's every hour! Gyre is the first image in a mini-series that Jordan is creating about the Pacific Garbage Patch, and is named after the Pacific Gyre, a thousand miles wide ocean current which turns clockwise like a giant slow-motion whirlpool and concentrates tons of the world's trash.2
gyre3Photographic artist Chris Jordan never ceases to amaze us with his clever pieces that allow people to "see" concepts that are often difficult to visualize. We submit for your viewing pleasure, his latest work, Gyre. Look familiar? The 8' x 11' triptych is based on the famous Japanese painting, "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai. Instead of paint, the colors are composed of 2.4 million pieces of plastic - the estimated number of pounds of plastic that enter the world's ocean's every hour! Gyre is the first image in a mini-series that Jordan is creating about the Pacific Garbage Patch, and is named after the Pacific Gyre, a thousand miles wide ocean current which turns clockwise like a giant slow-motion whirlpool and concentrates tons of the world's trash.3
gyre4Photographic artist Chris Jordan never ceases to amaze us with his clever pieces that allow people to "see" concepts that are often difficult to visualize. We submit for your viewing pleasure, his latest work, Gyre. Look familiar? The 8' x 11' triptych is based on the famous Japanese painting, "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai. Instead of paint, the colors are composed of 2.4 million pieces of plastic - the estimated number of pounds of plastic that enter the world's ocean's every hour! Gyre is the first image in a mini-series that Jordan is creating about the Pacific Garbage Patch, and is named after the Pacific Gyre, a thousand miles wide ocean current which turns clockwise like a giant slow-motion whirlpool and concentrates tons of the world's trash.4
gyre5Photographic artist Chris Jordan never ceases to amaze us with his clever pieces that allow people to "see" concepts that are often difficult to visualize. We submit for your viewing pleasure, his latest work, Gyre. Look familiar? The 8' x 11' triptych is based on the famous Japanese painting, "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai. Instead of paint, the colors are composed of 2.4 million pieces of plastic - the estimated number of pounds of plastic that enter the world's ocean's every hour! Gyre is the first image in a mini-series that Jordan is creating about the Pacific Garbage Patch, and is named after the Pacific Gyre, a thousand miles wide ocean current which turns clockwise like a giant slow-motion whirlpool and concentrates tons of the world's trash.5
