Quote: "The sheer enormity of it all gave me the shivers as I looked at Chris Jordan's photographs at the Paul Kopeikin Gallery. Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption is made up of large photos (mostly 40 x 50") that present seas of discarded cell phones, broken bottles, unwanted circuit boards, and compacted cars stacked like pancakes. Jordan hangs around the garbage dumps and shipping ports of the Pacific Northwest to bring us scenes like these, going places most of us would rather avoid, but, oddly enough, the result is a beautiful series of photographs. Colorful patterns emerge in the rubble and somehow his images lend the garbage a graceful presence. His photos are tinged with a certain amount of sympathy for the items our disposable society tosses aside so quickly when something newer and better comes along."
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