Another Portrait of W.

When W. and I were working on his first portrait, I asked him why he had chosen to wear the warrior beads for his portrait. He said because he was from Sierra Leone and had come to the US as a young teenager after living for a year as a child soldier in the African bush. I asked him whether we could include something that suggested this experience in a second portrait that would use the reflections in the window of Anthony’s, the store across the street. He was really into this idea, and I am still working on the painting.