Yet again, Chris Jordan has created another amazing piece of art named Gyre.

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This 8×11 feet large image depicts the famous Japanese painting, “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” by Hokusai. Comprised of 2.4 Million pieces of plastic – (the estimated number of pounds of plastic that enter the world’s ocean’s every hour!)

Gyre was inspired by the Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a large collection of rubbish including plastics and other waste product, collected there by the Oceans Gyres, namely the North Pacific Gyre. (A Gyre is a larger circular area of ocean currents, like that of a giant whirlpool.) This pile of rubbish is estimated to be twice the size of Texas, if not larger. Despite its shear size, this mass is not visible from Satellite imagery.

More info on the Pacific Garbage Patch: Here

The pieces of plastic used were actually collected from the Pacific Ocean.

Gyre is just one part of a larger series of Eco Art, created to help raise the public’s awareness to an otherwise unreported problem.

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