Art: Chris Jordan - Running the numbers

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My favourite thing today is the Running the Numbers collection by artist Chris Jordan. His work is huge because he uses large numbers of things to make up images that represent the huge numbers of things that we use/waste etc. For example in Barbie Dolls, 2008 he uses 32,000 Barbies, to equal the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006.

There's an interview here - http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0511/richards.html

BTW, has anybody read "Affluenza" by Oliver James?