The artist’s flattened, cropped, exotically colored, and unnatural depictions of Prince’s disembodied head seek to communicate a message about the impact of celebrity in contemporary life. Princeis reframed as a larger-than-life icon or totem, yet he is also reduced: He becomes the product of a publicity machine that packages and disseminates commoditized images. He manifests, in short, the dehumanizing culture of celebrity in America.