Brian Bulfer 2009
Giving and Receiving
oil on canvas, 19.5"x23"

NOTES:

Each color is ordered off the spectrum where lower color frequencies represent lower values and higher color frequencies represent higher values.  Each stripe represents a month and each band of stripes represents a year tracking US imports and exports for the years 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1994.  Vertical stripes are tracking imports and horizontal stripes are tracking exports at the ten thousandth place.

Sources:

“Foreign Trade Statisitics: Trade in Goods (Imports, Exports, and Trade Balance) with World, Seasonally Adjusted.”  U.S. Census Bureau.  Dec. 2008  <http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c0004.html#1990>