Eros. Allegory of Love by Conrad Egyir is a painting made with acrylic, glass, glitter, and mounted wood on canvas. It measures five and half feet tall by four feet wide. It is in portrait orientation, meaning that its shortest side runs parallel to the ground. Inspired by the allegory of Eros, the Greek god of love, Egyir depicts a woman reminiscent of traditional Christian depictions of Mary or Christ paired with two smaller than life women that almost resemble cherubs. The painting is made with flat, bright colors. As if the image were pulled out of a magazine, the shadows and highlights have been simplified to two tones and depicted with sharp, graphic edges. At the center, we see the bust of a woman who looks directly at the viewer. She has brown eyes, mouth slightly agape with front teeth peeking through her lips. Her black hair is styled into locs that reach just past her jaw while the top half is drawn into a messy bun. She wears a bright blue long sleeve shirt while the arm to our right rests on a white space that takes up the bottom edge of the painting as if it were a table or shelf.   Sitting on top of this resting arm is the miniature of the woman with the same features and hairstyle, but in a white turtleneck sweater and blue jeans. This smaller version of the woman waves her arms above her head and to the left with face scrunched as if she’s been caught mid-stretch. To the left of this stretching woman is yet another miniature wearing the exact same outfit. This woman kneels onto one knee and reaches an arm towards the figure to her right. Behind this figure, there is a brightly painted peach with two bright green leaves. At life size, the peach is nearly a chair for the miniature figure that is kneeling next to it.  The background of the painting is a flat vivid yellow. Thin green brushstrokes drop in from the top right edge of the frame as if they are leaves to a palm tree that is just out of view. The entire scene is framed in white wood with words formed from glass letters that read “Our Affinity” on the top, “Unbesmirched” on the right, “Our Passion” read upside down from the bottom, and “Unbesmirched” to the left, mirroring the repeated word across to the right. The white frame is embellished with four red symbols made of carved wood. One of them appears to be an animal, followed by a pair of crisscrossing machetes, a hair pick, and the roman numeral II.