'Skull With Cigarette' — by Chris Jordan

Above, it's part of his photographic series entitled "Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait."

Based on Vincent van Gogh's 1885 painting "Skull with a Burning Cigarette" (below),

Jordan's piece measures 98" x 72".

He used 20,000 cigarette packs to create the work pictured up top (and below

in

more

detail).

David Sedaris writes about how and why he quit smoking in an essay which appears in the current issue (May 5, 2008) of the New Yorker.

[via streetanatomy.com and Direct Infections]