Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan is an amazing artist. He is extremely creative with how he puts together his artwork. How he puts his images together is very intriguing. In my opinion I believe that if he were to be a teacher he would be an amazing teacher if he were to teach his students through artwork. The information that he provides us with through how his work is created is astonishing.  The facts that are captured under the photos are quite interesting. Who would have guessed that from a far distance his artwork is created with cigarettes, bottle caps and words. He is an extremely talented man.

With how he presents his work is very empowering. What I exactly mean by that is that he makes learning about facts interesting. His explaining and providing information to his viewers are incredible. When it comes to learning about fact many people become board and not interested. How he teachers through artwork keeps his viewers interested and it also keeps us wanting to continue to view his other artwork and by doing that we are learning additional facts without even being aware of it.

This book really opens up my eyes to what the world have become and how our technology and resources are somewhat ruining us. As the book states on page 25, “ Over 20 million people have died in wars since World War II”. What is sad about these deaths is that they were caused because the war that they were involved in were fighting to obtain control over resources regarding forestland, cropland, oil, coal and minerals. There are ancient diseases that are re-emerging and has killed 20 million people worldwide. Back in 1997 there was no vaccine for H4N1, which is a type of flu virus, and now we have vaccines for people to help prevent them from getting infected. We have come a long way with our technology.

It is quite disgusting how humans take advantage of others. Regarding slavery, people decided that the slaves were no longer valuable because there were machines that were made that will get the work done instead of the slaves. It is great that the slaves were set free, but just viewing how people treat different ethnicities is disgusting. With all of the actions that we are doing and using up all of our resources like there is no tomorrow is killing our planet and ourselves. People do not look at the long-term effects of what our actions may cause.