It's easy to lose site of our actions, both positive and negative, because of the simple fact that when you hear new statistics today, the numbers are so extremely large that our minds lack the ability to comprehend them....1 million service organizations, 2 million plastic bottles (every 5 minutes), the current Federal Burden $56,400,000,000,000.
I wanted to share a new piece of his that I thought was particularly moving.
E. Pluribus Unum, 2009
[description from his site] This image depicts the names of one million organizations around the world that are devoted to peace, environmental stewardship, social justice, and the preservation of diverse and indigenous culture.
The actual number of such organizations is unknown, but Paul Hawken's "Blessed Unrest" project estimates the number at somewhere between one and two million, and growing. If the lines in this piece were straightened out, they would make an unbroken line of names, in a ten point font, twenty seven miles long.
Many thanks to Paul Hawken, Craig S. Kaplan, and Robert Bosch for their collaboration on this project. The printed size is 45x45 feet.
Standing back a bit, you see lots of these lines angling and intersecting:
...and stepping further back, you see more lines of names:
Stepping even further back, a complex geometric pattern begins to emerge:
Standing back further still, the names become much too small to read, but remember that's what all the lines are:
Now we’re standing about thirty feet back from the piece, and the panel you are looking at is the size of a movie screen:
...and back even further (we're almost there):
The title, "E. Pluribus Unum," is Latin, and translates to “The Many Become One."
Another piece....
Plastic Bottles, 200760x120"Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.
Census
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