Born in Liverpool to Indian immigrant parents, Chila Kumari Burman joined the vanguard of young black and Asian artists who campaigned for greater visibility in the British art world during the 1980s and 1990s. To achieve this Burman often used herself as the subject to investigate and to highlight the problem of stereotyping experienced by these artists.

In this witty, colourful, yet moving self-portrait, Burman uses the visual language of the street – graffiti - to simultaneously assert one identity and deny another. This is one of a series of eight prints commissioned by Walsall Museum and Art Gallery in which other works, created by the same method with laser print and car spray paint, are inscribed with commands and assertions such as "Don't Judge a Book by its Cover" and "Stereotypes Reinforces Mystery Izzat".