beautiful young adult dark-skinned Black man with an enormous sculptural afro, his face occupying almost the entire frame,
deep blue-black skin with warm undertones, extremely realistic skin texture and pores, no freckles, completely matte skin, enormous asymmetrical eyebrows, absurdly long separated eyelashes, huge dark eyes staring directly into the lens, broad nose, gigantic plush lips,
his face partially obscured by an impossible mass of wildflowers, weeds, vines, dead roses, tiny white flowers, seed pods, and enormous green leaves erupting upward from the bottom of the frame,
one hand emerging from the flowers and holding a tiny cracked porcelain angel directly beside his cheek,
wearing a battered black velvet jacket covered in tiny embroidered flowers,
EXTREME CLOSE-UP, camera almost touching his face, only head, shoulders, flowers, and one hand visible, flowers violently invading the composition,
hard direct flash photography, brutally bright face against almost-black surroundings, flash freezing individual petals and stray hairs,
aggressive painterly brushwork,
massive visible paint strokes,
real skin rendered against deliberately simplified painted shapes,
shape-based rendering,
broken edges,
graphic shadow masses,
ugly-beautiful color collisions,
grainy disposable-camera texture,
candid photograph that somehow looks like a painting,
creatorfolk,
local mythology,
the neighborhood remembers this photograph,
unreasonably fucking good portrait
