The Auto Portrait prints portfolio explores portraiture as a source of expression that addresses personality, emotion, etc. as symbolic possibilities.

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At present, the use of the portrait has been potentiated with mobile devices with the selfie as an instrument of here I am. As a counterpart Portrait Auto explores it from the existential I am.

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Technically, the characteristic black of the engraving is exploited as the shadow or irrational content of the human being. The expressive possibilities of the drypoint technique are a means to obtain strong lines that, when obsessively overlapped, dark planes and forceful shapes are achieved.