In the present lot, titled The Great Wall, famed boxer Mike Tyson has been obscured by a metallic and geometrically pleasing wall of bricks. Referencing Tyson as his version of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe, Adams questions one's perception of an "icon.” Has Tyson been culturally objectified or venerated? Bricked into his space, the wall makes reference to the notion of entrapment and slavery. Tyson's freedom is visually questioned though the title does not make reference to a wall of containment but rather to The Great Wall of China. A wall built to defend, it also served to control immigration and emigration. Tyson is portrayed as both defensive and vulnerable, as the floating wall of silver bricks seem to dissipate and crumble along it's edges, accentuating the weakling of his strength. "The artist's argument is that expectations of strength are merely spent muscles, worn down by pity and poverty. Adams thus styles himself as a witness and a minor savior of what is best about the street, a grim beauty of person and place."(Charlie Finch, "BrickTop," artnet news, 2010)