Jean-Michel Basquiat drew on American popular culture and his Haitian heritage to create images with many possible interpretations.

In this work, a central figure in a barbed-wire crown displays a fish he has caught. But is this a reference to Christ advising his followers to be "fishers of men," or a depiction of a Bokor, a Haitian voodoo priest who applies gray ashes to his body and uses pufferfish poison to concoct a deadly potion?