The mixed media painting depicts a Black pirate-like figure with a wooden leg and long hair.

The figure has an alien-like face and wears a long coat, belt, a puffy, frilly white shirt, and a pair of blue pants.

Holding a green parrot in its hand, the figure appears to be standing underwater, on seaweed, surrounded by a coral reef.

Tate Modern's Alice Sanger interpreted the painting as being representative of the Atlantic slave trade that stemmed from Cape Verde, where Gallagher's father is from.

[1] Metros Amy Dawson described the work's complex amount of paint, gold leaf and mixed media as being "intricate" and part of the artist's fantastical conception of a black Atlantis, populated by the descendants of slaves who perished during the Middle Passage.