OBEY Magnifying Glass I’ve been a big fan of Roy Lichtenstein’s Pop Art since late high school, and I especially like some of his pieces that conceptually, and often humorously, examine mechanical reproduction. A signature element of Lichtenstein’s art is conspicuous halftone dots. Halftone dots are a very commonly used way of creating a sense of grey tones when printing only with black ink by varying the density of the dots. Warhol used halftones in his screen prints, but in a less stylized and exaggerated way than Lichtenstein’s approach, placing them front and center as a stylistic signature of his art. When I’d been making my Andre stickers for five years back in 1994, I decided to do a series of Pop Art tributes to celebrate the five-year anniversary. One of them was an homage to Lichtenstein’s “Magnifying Glass.” -Shepard Shepard Fairey Collection for Fall ’22 available now.