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Plastic Cups, 2008 (60x90") Depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours.
Barbie Dolls, 2008 (60x80") Depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006.
Plastic Bottles, 2007 (60x120") Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.
Skull With Cigarette, 2007 (98X72") Depicts 200,000 packs of cigarettes, equal to the number of Americans who die from cigarette smoking every six months.
Jet Trails, 2007 (60x96") Depicts 11,000 jet trails, equal to the number of commercial flights in the US every eight hours.
Prison Uniforms, 2007 (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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Cell Phones, 2007 (60x100") Depicts 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day.
Paper Bags, 2007 (60x80") Depicts 1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags, the number used in the US every hour.
Cans Seurat, 2007 (60x92") Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds.
Denali Denial, 2006 (60x75") Depicts 24,000 logos from the GMC Yukon Denali, equal to six weeks of sales of that model SUV in 2004.
Paper Cups, 2008 (60x96") Depicts 410,000 paper cups, equal to the number of disposable hot-beverage paper cups used in the US every fifteen minutes.
Pain Killers, 2007 (60x63") Depicts 213,000 Vicodin pills, equal...
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Office Paper, 2007 (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.
Valve Caps, 2006 (10x25 feet in five vertical panels) Depicts 3.6 million tire valve caps, one for each new SUV sold in the US in 2004.
Energizer, 2007 (60x99") Depicts 170,000 disposable Energizer batteries, equal to fifteen minutes of Energizer battery production. 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.
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