Heinecken’s first large-scale sculptural installation is also the earliest in a series of works addressing the increasingly dominant presence of television in American culture. In several exhibitions throughout the decade, Heinecken recreated an environment that evoked a middle-class living room, complete with a constantly running television, lounge chair, plastic plant, and rug. Placing a positive transparency with an image of a nude torso over a live-broadcasting television set, Heinecken invited viewers to consider the sexualized nature of consumption in American culture. “As in the earlier film collages,” Heinecken notes, “figure/field transference occurs because of one’s inability to focus on the actual TV image and the superimposed film image at the same time. Social satire is rather rampant.” The installation builds on the chance juxtapositions and associations so fundamental to Heinecken’s work.