Untitled (Red Nails) was painted from a photograph sent to the artist by a friend as a commission. A hand rests against the radiating leaves of a variegated spider plant — the striped green and cream foliage fans out behind it and frames the composition like a collar. The nails are the painting's first note: long, almond-shaped, lacquered in saturated red, each one catching a different highlight. The hand itself is modeled carefully in warm browns, with specific observations at the knuckles — small creases, a mole on the middle finger, the way the skin tightens across the bones. A mix of gold and silver rings runs across the fingers. A white cuff at the wrist catches pale lavender-blue shadow and grounds the hand against the darker greens and blacks of the plant behind. The painting is a portrait that only shows one body part — and manages to say as much about its subject as a face would, through the specific language of nails, rings, and skin.