In this 2015 archival pigment print, Paul Mpagi Sepuya positions his own body among cascading roses, folding themes of desire, self-examination, and photographic intimacy into a single, carefully constructed frame. The roses soften and complicate the image, introducing a visual language historically associated with romance, mourning, and adornment, while Sepuya's presence grounds the composition in something far more charged and personal. The result is a work that refuses straightforward portraiture, operating instead at the intersection of performance, vulnerability, and the archive of Black queer experience that runs through so much of the artist's practice. Sepuya has built an internationally recognized body of work through his sustained investigation of the studio as both subject and collaborator, and this self portrait stands as a compelling example of that inquiry applied to himself. The image does not simply depict; it stages and interrogates, asking how identity is constructed within and through the photographic act. Measuring 121.9 by 86.4 centimeters and printed on archival pigment paper, the work carries a physical presence that rewards close attention, drawing viewers into its layered surface and tonal richness. This edition holds notable institutional standing, with a larger format version of the work residing in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and a second institutional holding at the International Center of Photography, also in New York. Available through Craven Contemporary in an edition of five, signed and framed, this print represents a rare opportunity to acquire a work by an artist whose critical standing continues to grow with sustained museum recognition.