Black Orpheus is an important mythological figure in the artist's work, many of which he depicts through his artistic oeuvre. The title references the 1959 movie, Black Orpheus, made in Rio de Janeiro during the carnival. In his newest body of work, Barontini illuminates disparities in the visual and cultural history of the French Caribbean, which is rooted in African ancestry, yet virtually saturated with culture of an insular Caribbean.

The body comes from a greek sculpture of Apollo, and the face is part of a photographic portrait the artist made with a model in mid-2020. Layered faces include a Sculpture in bronze from Nigeria on top of a younger face of a man. The modernist sculpture revealed in the neck and on the top of a head sourced from a sculpture of Isamu Noguchi. The piece is a contemporary collage and vision of Orpheus.