Chris Jordan

  

Return of the Dinosaurs, 2011     44x57" and 60x77", based on a painting by John Sibbick

Depicts 240,000 plastic bags, equal to the estimated number of plastic bags consumed around the world every ten seconds.

Tuna, 2009     64x115"; made from nineteen watercolor paintings by Sarah Waller

Depicts 20,500 tuna, the average number of tuna fished from the world's oceans every fifteen minutes.

Shark Teeth, 2009     64x94"; based on a watercolor painting by Sarah Waller

Depicts 270,000 fossilized shark teeth, equal to the estimated number of sharks of all species killed around the world every day for their fins.

Insatiable, 2011     60x60" and 44x44"

Depicts 48,000 plastic spoons, equal to the number of gallons of oil consumed around the world every second.

Stone of the Sun, 2011     44x44" and 60x60"

Depicts 92,500 agricultural plant seeds, equal to one hundredth of one percent of the number of people in the world today who suffer from malnutrition. To illustrate the entire statistic with 925 million seeds would require ten thousand prints of this image, covering more than eight football fields.

                                                   Digital Collage

41 percent of first marriages end in divorce.