Untitled (Sikán with White Tips) by Cuban artist Belkis Ayón Manso is a monochromatic print made in 1993. This print on paper measures thirty-seven inches vertically and twenty-five inches wide. Belkis Ayón specialized in collagraphy, a printmaking technique that involves a relief-printing process where one adds shapes, fibers and textured media onto a rigid surface. This flat plane, usually cardboard, serves as the printing plate.  A Black figure in the center is the print’s focal point. The figure’s neck and head are white. This main figure is covered with white spikes. In the background, both above and behind the main figure is the outline of another head, grey in color. This larger head has almond shaped eyes with white and grey eyeballs. If this print were like the face of a clock, the large grey outlined head would be at twelve o’clock. Moving clockwise, in the top right corner, a figure is stretched out with its back to the viewer. It is almost touching the center figure with its outstretched arms. Below the main figure, at what would be seven o’clock, is another black figure with arms stretched and a white oval head. The overall print is done in shades of grey that range from light to dark, with five areas of dark black and four areas of white. There is a mysterious, tactile and sensual visual texture that is the result of the collagraphic technique. The shades of gray and black are surrounded by passing shadows, leopard people, tattooed silhouettes, bodies sheathed in scaly snake skins, severe faces with vigilant eyes devoid of mouths. The androgynous figures leave room for all kinds of interpretation on gender and power relations. Ambiguity is an aspect of this print. One of Ayón’s main themes is the myth of Princess Sikán, who is punished by death for breaking an imposed vow of silence.