Devan Shimoyama’s Tasha is a mixed media portrait on canvas that is stretched over panel. It stands vertically at forty-eight inches tall and thirty-six inches wide or, in other words, four feet tall and three feet wide. Tasha depicts a young Black boy at a barber shop with highly saturated colors utilizing paint, collage, glitter, silk flowers and other ready-made materials. In the front and center of the panel, occupying the majority of the composition, is the bust of a young boy looking to our left at a three-quarter view. His hair is styled into a high topknot, its silhouette filled in with a dense layer of sparkling silver glitter and crushed glass in lieu of strands of hair. An image of a barber’s razor is collaged on top of the boy’s glittery hair, appearing to hover on its own. The cord of the razor is replaced with turquoise-colored beads as it snakes around his hair, behind his top knot, and disappears off into the top left of the panel. The boy’s features are relaxed, wearing a calm expression. The whites of his eyes are covered with the same silver glitter, and over each of his eyes are single, quarter sized, buttery pink plastic roses in lieu of irises. On his right cheek, sit three crystal teardrops, adjacent to his right eye. His complexion glows with unnaturally bright colors that are smoothly painted over with a gradient. The gradient begins with pale yellow at his glittery hairline, transitions to lemon yellow near his eyes and ear, to shades of warm ochre at his nose and mouth, and rusty oranges down at his neckline. Below, the boy wears a lush barber’s cape embroidered with coppery sequins and pink, life-sized silk roses and cherry blossoms, dotted with smaller pink rosebuds throughout. This lush cape of sequins and flowers seem to cascade off the edge of the bottom of the panel while, at moments, revealing the fluorescent pink under-painting beneath. This pink under-painting also extends to outline the figure, as if casting it with a neon glow. In the background, the right half of the panel is painted with a flat peachy pastel pink. The left half is covered with a graphic Japanese-style print showing white cherry blossoms with blue stems. The print is covered with a light wash of muted brown to give it an antiqued or aged appearance. In the top left corner of the panel on this printed background, we see collaged head shots of six young black boys sporting different haircuts, their backgrounds covered with a thick white paint and the same peachy pastel pink as a border. The boys’ photos are arranged into two neat rows of three each, as if we are looking at a sample wall at a barber shop. Most of the models look away from the viewer with the same expression as the main subject, except for one boy on the top left who looks directly at us with a smile. Tasha depicts a young Black boy at a barber shop, shedding crystal tears while having his hair cut.