chris jordan

Barbie Dolls, 2008
60x80"

Depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006.


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Skull With Cigarette, 2007 [based on a painting by Van Gogh]
98X72"

Depicts 200,000 packs of cigarettes, equal to the number of Americans who die from cigarette smoking every six months.


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Ben Franklin, 2007
8.5 feet wide by 10.5 feet tall in three horizontal panels

Depicts 125,000 one-hundred dollar bills ($12.5 million), the amount our government spends every hour on the war in Iraq.


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