[TRENDING] This is the Saddest Video of Dying Birds
The MIDWAY media project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch. This is their horrific story and our collective horror! MIDWAY will walk you into beauty, grief, horror, and joy, intertwined, and dancing, as a potent metaphor for our times. [WARNING: VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED]
By Sadho Ram — 21 Feb 2013, 04:49 AM — Updated over 11 years ago
MIDWAY By Chris Jordan
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midwayjourney.comThe Albatross, The Midway Atoll Island and Animal Lead Poisoning
Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds allied to the procellariids, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses).
As its name suggests, Midway is roughly equidistant between North America and Asia, and lies almost halfway around the world from Greenwich, England.
Midway was the focal point of the Battle of Midway, one of the most important naval battles of the Pacific Campaign in World War II.
Midway Atoll receives substantial amounts of marine debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Consisting of ninety percent plastic, this debris accumulates on the beaches of Midway
Animal lead poisoning (also known as avian plumbism, or avian saturnism for birds) is a veterinary condition and pathology caused by increased levels of the heavy metal lead in animal's body.
Chris Jordan, The Artist Behind MIDWAY
Chris is an artist based in US, who is known for his large scale works depicting mass consumption and garbage. He has been called "the 'it' artist of the green movement".
His work is a bold message about unconscious behaviors in our everyday lives, leaving it to us to draw conclusions about the inevitable consequences which will arise from our habits
Many of Jordan's works are created from photographs of garbage and mass consumption, a serendipitous technique which started when he visited an industrial yard to look at patterns of color and order.
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The MIDWAY media project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy.