In her book
Dark Matters, Simone Browne explains how the placement of Thomas» Branded Head (2004) in light boxes next to real corporate institutions, such as J.P. Morgan, called
attention to the fact that these banks put out insurance policies
on slaves.4 Though Thomas certainly uses these corporate aesthetics, they are meant to draw
attention to the bodies that have been appropriated by the florescent glare, yet also return agency to the subject — calling
attention to the hypocrisy evident in the system of production.