Look around. In the gallery, right here and now at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (and, later, if you like, as you leave through the courtyard or while walking along Piccadilly, then at the station, in the shop, on the bus or train, in a traffic jam or queue... look around and see the portraits all around you.
How are people portraying themselves?
In any given moment, how do they look?
What impressions do they give and how do you see them?
If you know them, try to imagine you do not, and try to see them with fresh eyes: do you recognise the person you know from a brief glance?
If no one is around, or even if they are, find a mirror or reflective surface and ask the same questions about yourself. If you are in public, and you will be if you are still at the exhibition, imagine how everyone might be thinking about you right now.
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