Chris Jordan, the celebrated artist that creates large-scale portraits of America using various consumer goods has released two new works for 2008.

The two new representations of American waste are “Plastic Cups” and “Barbie Dolls”.

“Plastic Cups” is 60×90″ and depicts one million plastic cups (the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours).

“Plastic Cups” in its entirety

“Plastic Cups” at actual size

“Barbie Dolls” is 60×80″ and depicts 32,000 Barbies (equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006).

“Barbie Dolls” in its entirety, forming a pair of breasts.

“Barbie Dolls” at actual size

I’m always in awe of Chris Jordan’s work. Hopefully he continues to make some more insightful works of art throughout 2008.

Thanks for the heads up, Simeon!

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