Verbal Description Transcript: Reflection I, painted in 2018. Oil on paper. About 4 feet 3 inches high by 3 feet 7 inches wide. A young Black man, the artist, looks at himself in a mirror. He is naked and shown from the waist up. He is positioned at the left of the painting, with his face turned away from us towards the mirror, so only the right side of his face is visible. His reflected image is at right, enclosed in a rectangular mirror with a narrow dark wood frame. His full face is shown in the reflection. The top edge and the right-hand edge of the mirror are cut off by the sides of the canvas. The mirror has been propped on top of a radiator. The gray vertical bars of the radiator form a striped pattern at bottom right of the painting. The man has a muscular chest and arms. His right hand is raised and supports his chin. He has a suggestion of beard or stubble on his jaw. His head has been shaved at the back and sides; on the top of his head, his hair is in long dreadlocks, and pulled up into a knot on the crown. Shorter dreadlocks fall over his forehead, forming a fringe. The man’s skin has been thickly painted, using streaks of darker and lighter brown, with blue highlights. The thick, fluid quality of the paint shows that the artist has used his fingers to apply the color in these areas. The background is flatter in texture and painted in a simplified form. The area behind the mirror and radiator is dove gray. To the far left of the image is a vertical band of salmon pink. This salmon pink is the color seen in the mirror, forming a backdrop to the man’s reflected image.