Sunday, March 09, 2008

Ahem.



"I've heard of pop art, but this is ridiculous!"





This is work by Chris Jordan, and beyond just being extraordinary to look at, he has something to say with it, too (and no, Corey, it is not "Hello, dere! What's up, Doc?").

Cans Seurat [is] 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds.


The next work is made up of

32,000 Barbies,



equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006


And finally, this is a detail from a portrait comprised of
125,000 one-hundred dollar bills ($12.5 million), the amount our government spends every hour on the war in Iraq




I'll let you see for yourself who it's a portrait of...

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