An American Self-Portrait

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Art from statistics.

This series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on.

They do say a picture is worth many words. I guess it’s worth a lot of numbers too.