
This self-portrait is inspired in the strict guidelines of the photographs required for the US immigration visas and green card. I remember reading the instructions and obsessing over them when I was first applying for the green card lottery years ago.
The design is based on the actual template that the US government has on their website.

I added a few more guides to the original. All my illustrations are heavily based on basic, geometric shapes, so the US guidelines were a perfect fit. At some point I even thought about doing an extreme version of the template with dozens of guides to reproduce the inner geometry of the self-portrait as it can be seen in the wireframe version:

Last night we had a show and this artwork was there, and so was I. Here is this (meta)photo to add to the list of different levels of representation and symbols of symbols.
