"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 ofelective 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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