Chris Jordan

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60x80" Depicts 166,000 packing peanuts, equal to the number of overnight packages shipped by air in the U.S. every hour.

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60x60" Depicts 28,000 42-gallon barrels, the amount of oil consumed in the United States every two minutes (equal to the flow of a medium-sized river).

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72x96" Depicts 320,000 light bulbs, equal to the number of kilowatt hours of electricity wasted in the United States every minute from inefficient residential electricity usage (inefficient wiring, computers in sleep mode, etc.).

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60x96" Depicts one hundred million toothpicks, equal to the number of trees cut in the U.S. yearly to make the paper for junk mail.

60x90" Depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours.

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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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60x120" Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.

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[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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60x96" Depicts 11,000 jet trails, equal to the number of commercial flights in the US every eight hours.

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10x23 feet in six vertical panels Depicts 2.3 million folded prison uniforms, equal to the number of Americans incarcerated in 2005. The U.S. has the largest prison population of any country in the world.

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Installed at the Von Lintel Gallery, NY, June 2007

60x100" Depicts 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day.

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60x80" Depicts 1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags, the number used in the US every hour.

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60x92" Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds.

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60x75" Depicts 24,000 logos from the GMC Yukon Denali, equal to six weeks of sales of that model SUV in 2004.

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60x96" Depicts 410,000 paper cups, equal to the number of disposable hot-beverage paper cups used in the US every fifteen minutes.

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60x63" Depicts 213,000 Vicodin pills, equal to the number of emergency room visits yearly in the US related to misuse or abuse of prescription pain killers.

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60x92" Depicts 29,569 handguns, equal to the number of gun-related deaths in the US in 2004.

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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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60x72" Depicts 60,000 plastic bags, the number used in the US every five seconds.

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8 x 25 feet in five panels Depicts 83,000 Abu Ghraib prisoner photographs, equal to the number of people who have been arrested and held at US-run detention facilities with no trial or other due process of law, during the Bush Administration's war on terror.

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60x82" Depicts 65,000 cigarettes, equal to the number of American teenagers under age eighteen who become addicted to cigarettes every month.

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16 feet tall x 32 feet wide in eighteen square panels, each sized 62x62". Depicts nine million wooden ABC blocks, equal to the number of American children with no health insurance coverage in 2007.

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60x87" Depicts 30,000 reams of office paper, or 15 million sheets, equal to the amount of office paper used in the US every five minutes.

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10x25 feet in five vertical panels Depicts 3.6 million tire valve caps, one for each new SUV sold in the US in 2004.

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60x99" Depicts 170,000 disposable Energizer batteries, equal to fifteen minutes of Energizer battery production.

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If 170,000 batteries were depicted at their real size, the print would need to be 26x43 feet, as shown here. To depict one year of Energizer disposable battery production (six billion batteries) would require a print 26 feet high by 146 miles long.

60x120" Depicts 38,000 shipping containers, the number of containers processed through American ports every twelve hours.

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