The self-portrait manifests our need for permanence and is a metaphor for identity.

Discover your own body, accept it, know it. Life, desire, pain, skin, organs. The matter that contains me.  The self-portrait has to do with the ego and narcissism but also with self-knowledge, reflection and critical analysis of the body, beauty and its expression; the self-portrait facilitates the construction of the self-image through self-representation, as well as the recognition of the impact of the gaze of others in this process.

The word portrait means in its Latin variant "to take out". Could it be that through the self-portrait we can bring out what is inside?