Christopher Taggart, '(Real) Nude (Military Men)', 2010, (hand-cut UV laminated photographs on wood, 124 x 60 inches); (Image courtesy of Eli Ridgway Gallery) 

Our society has become focused on and obsessed with the little things in life that seemingly would not matter much in the grand scheme. It is not the individual little things that matter, however; it is the aggregation of them into composite images that so captivates us. In fact, we are so obsessed with ‘big data’ and ‘analytics’ that w...