It’s amazing all the ways you can describe a person (and a person is not always human). It’s even more intriguing that your depiction of that person is not always (see: hardly ever) an accurate or reliable representation of them. Portraiture is all about creating portraits—a detailed description of something or someone—and is all about interpretation. Environmental
portraiture of someone in their element, a poem about your mother’s quiet daily reflections by the bay window, a photo of window blind lines across a stranger’s stomach.