Black-and-white two panel charcoal drawing of a Black man holding a white-tipped cane upright over his head. The top horizontal panel shows the cane's tip with a bullet flying in an arc behind it, leaving a black smokey trail. The lower vertical panel shows the man shirtless with a hairy chest, pronounced muscles, and a metal chain around his neck. His eyes are open and point forward, while his right eye is positioned slightly off center. He holds the cane upright with two clenched fists in a way that bifurcates his face into two sections. (Charles Eppley)

In the lower panel, Manning grasps his white cane as might a samurai would hold his sword, or as an antenna to the skies. The upper panel contains the tip of the cane, above which arcs a comet which contains the bullet that blinded him. Inside the comet’s tail is text in Braille (it is 3-D and embossed into the paper) that says “Born April 28, 1955: Transformed October 18, 1978”. The sky around the comet is embossed with a chart of the constellations from April to October. (Riva Lehrer)