Local lawyer-turned-photographer Chris Jordan has gotten a lot of attention, and deservedly

Local lawyer-turned-photographer Chris Jordan has gotten a lot of attention, and deservedly so, for his large-format images of trash. He took up his new trade just as our eco-guilt over our garbage, castoffs, and throwaway mentality began to pile as high as those landfill mountains. He’s got a handful of photos on display at the Northwest Rooms as part of the group show “Kerfuffle (or the Uneasy Relationship Between Humanity and the Environment.”Bumbershoot visitors, many them clutching plastic or metal water bottles, reacted curiously to Jordan’s digital images, which mass our detritus into a field where the individual and the aggregate blur together. People pressed their faces close to the surface, as if trying to identify the individual tree in the forest, the grain of sand in the desert. Only they were looking at walls of junk–all our crap massed into a confounding landscape. Think pointillism and Georges Seurat, or Sunday in the Park With Trash.A better, larger image of Jordan’s work after the jump…How badly do you want that new Prius? Because Jordan’s work reminds us where the old clunker goes to rest, perhaps permanently.Jordan will have more images like these on view when his work is featured at Pacific Science Center (beginning Oct. 3), in a show called “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers.”Chris Jordan Northwest Rooms, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Mon.