Heinecken layered transparencies of pinup images over collages made from magazines and newspapers in a series of works that addressed the Vietnam War, the social unrest in the United States, and the representation of sex and violence in American culture. The source material for the transparencies came from The Latent Image, a now-defunct mail-order company that sold pornography on unprocessed film, which could be developed at home—thus circumventing bans on interstate sales of sexually explicit images. Heinecken found these “anonymous images to be more interesting and strangely more authentic than ones I might make myself.” On the political content of this work, Heinecken remarked: “I don’t view art as an effective instrument for social change, however, I do feel that cultural and political issues are appropriate subject matter for artists....the transparent areas of the film allow you to see through the collage, and perceptually from the shape of the figure. The new images (collage) become the anatomy, the clothing, or the viscera of the symbolic image.”