Proposed New Corporate Logo For Monsanto Company, 2011 4x9 feet, based on a painting by Josiah Lopez
Depicts 200,000 heirloom agricultural plant seeds, equal to the number of farmers in India who have committed suicide since 1997, when Monsanto introduced its genetically modified cotton
Venus, 2011 60x103" in one panel, and 8x13 feet in three panels
Depicts 240,000 plastic bags, equal to the estimated number of plastic bags consumed around the world every ten seconds.
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Gyre II, 2011 44x56" and 60x76"
Depicts 50,000 cigarette lighters, equal to the estimated number of pieces of floating plastic in every square mile in the world's oceans.
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Gyre, 2009 8x11 feet, in three vertical panels
Depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world's oceans every hour. All of the plastic in this image was collected from the Pacific Ocean.
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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.
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