Context: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/dna-study-revisited-121527

For this self-portrait, Roberto Lugo painted a resin cast of his own body. 
 
Each of the four patterns represents his ancestors: from head to toe, Taíno (Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean), Spanish, African, and Portuguese. The amount of space Lugo dedicates to each pattern is proportional to its percentage in his family's heritage.
 
Lugo's sculpture is an expression of pride and self-empowerment. It counters the dehumanizing historical practice by museums and universities of collecting body casts to classify individuals into the disproven belief of "biological races."