See Through by Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a multimedia painting on paper made in 2016. It is made of acrylic paint, transfers, colored pencil, charcoal, collage and commemorative fabric on paper. It measures around sixty-one inches tall by around fifty-two inches wide. This equals a little over five feet tall by four and a third feet wide. It is hung in a portrait orientation, meaning its shorter side runs parallel to the floor. This artwork is an example of a collage, or a piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric onto a backing.  The composition of See Through has four distinct parts. The top half of the collage is a sky-blue flat field of paint. Beneath the sky-blue background is the second section, composed of a piece of commemorative fabric, taking up the bottom two thirds of the artwork. The fabric contains a pattern of green and cream filigreed curves, resembling tight coils of vines on an orange background color. This curly design covers the entire fabric. This orange and green patterned fabric features six repeating portraits and names of the artist’s deceased mother, Professor Dora Akinyili. She is a Black woman with a closed mouthed smile, wearing pearl earrings and a pearl necklace. Her dress and headdress match the colors of the fabric, though they are a different pattern. Her name appears, curved underneath the ovals in white letters with a green background. The words “service to the people” are staggered between the six oval portraits of Dr. Akunyili. The third major part of the collage is a window with horizontal glass slats, called jalousies, covered by iron bars. Between the glass slats are Xerox transfers of various familial domestic images set in Nigeria. Some are upright, others are upside down. Some are groups of women. Others are single adults, sometimes only men, sometimes women. The transfers appear to be from black and white images, transferred into a light-brown field. The color green is included, as well as a peachy orange, or yellow or blue. The women wear traditional Nigerian dress while the men pictured wear western dress suits, alternating between neck ties and bow ties. This large square window rests with its bottom half covering the patterned fabric, and its top half covering the sky-blue part of the collage. The fourth and final section is a table that holds an old-fashioned television, with Grace Jones on the screen. She is seen wearing a yellow head covering in front of vertical bars, a mansion seen in the distance behind her. The television is turned at a forty-five-degree angle, with the screen tilted to the right side of the collage. The side paneling of the television matches the orange and green background fabric, blurring the distinction between foreground and background. The television rests on a circular wooden table.