Each 15 x 23 canvas details a bar code with fir trees representing a particular flavor of Campbells soup. The actual flavor and position corresponds with the flavors and positions from Warhols original soup can paintings from 1962 as they are currently displayed at the Museum of Modern Art. Two flavors are discontinued and he section of the UPC code in those paintings that identifies the specific product is left blank, appearing as a break in the tree line. The individual paintings go together to form a continuous image 61 feet long.
oil on individual canvases, available as a complete set through Rake Art Gallery
Realising that the uneven lighting in the gallery space makes this image a bit hard to read, here are a couple detail images
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