Mr. Wiley portrays this black, bald, blonde-haired woman standing with sass as a colorful depiction of flowers and greenery surrounds and encompasses her. Something particularly notable for me about the painting, besides the fact that she is bald, is her facial piercings. She has one in her nose, as well as one below her lip. After closely examining the portrait, I noticed that in addition to the blonde baldness, and facial piercings, the woman was not what would be typically described as skinny. Instead, she is full figured, painted in nothing more than a sheer bodysuit, fishnets, and jewelry. The painting stood out to me compared to some of Wiley’s other work because of this very reason. This portrait shows a black woman in minimum clothing compared to his other portraits of black women in long dresses. In this painting, I believe Wiley is challenging our view on what we consider to be feminine about black women. –Yaqkeha Witherspoon
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