One Trillion
24”x36” Acrylic on canvas, framed - $1,200
The Americans with the greatest household wealth are painted here (right to left):
- Elon Musk $367B
- Larry Ellison $287B
- Mark Zuckerberg $263B
- Jeff Bezos $245B
- Larry Page $179B
- Steve Ballmer $174B
- Sergey Brin $167B
- Jensen Huang $153B
- Warren Buffett $147B
- Michael Dell $136B
- Jim Walton $126B
- Rob Walton $124B
- Alice Walton $123B
- Bill Gates $122B
Approximately 134,787,000+ households — effectively ~99.9%+ of all U.S. households have less than $1 billion. The diameter (height) of the 16 ga. wire along the bottom axis represents this group.
Source: Forbes 400 3Q 2024
One Billion
24”x24” Acrylic on canvas, framed - $1,000
This painting shows the wealth of four contemporary entertainers (right to left):
- Taylor Swift – $1B
- Selena Gomez – $700 M
- Reece Witherspoon – $400M
- Meryl Streep – $100M
The diameter (height) of the 22 ga. wire along the baseline represents, to scale, $1 million.
One Million
24”x24” Acrylic on foam panel, framed - $1,200
Starting with a household wealth of $1M, the data on this painting display (left to right):
- $1 million
- $750,000
- $500,000
- $250,000
- $125,000
- $0
- -$50,000
- -$100,000
The diameter (height) of the wire along the baseline represents $1,000 bucks.
Roughly 10–15% of U.S. households — or about 13–20 million households — have less than $1,000 in net wealth.
Five Wealthy Men
10”x12” Mixed Media on panel - $400
As of 3Q 2025 five men are poised to attain $1 trillion in wealth.
(top to bottom)
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- Elon Musk $367B
- Larry Ellison $287B
- Mark Zuckerberg $263B
- Jeff Bezos $245B
- Larry Page $179B
The 32 ga. wire along the baseline represents those who have $1 billion or less in wealth.
Sharing 50-50
10”x12” Mixed Media on panel - $400
Imagine this:
20 people are in a liferaft out at sea. Everyone’s hungry. 20 flying fish fly into the liferaft. Yea, sashimi! But wait, one jerk grabs 10 fish and says “fifty fifty”. WTF!
I posed this question to Claude:
According to Fed data, 3Q 2025, the total us household wealth is $181.6 trillion. What percentage of households holds half of this?
After a lot of hemming and hawing (see my full discussion with Claude) it showed a range of ~4-6%
In this painting, the top 5% hold half – the bottom 95% hold the other half.