Genetic Portraits

Do you look like your father or your mother? I’m sure almost all of you will tell that you look like your mother because many of you is more attach to your mother than to your father. Well to me I’m more close to my mother but genetically I’m much more look like my father. My father side clan can distinguish especially by our ears. We have bigger ears than a normal person. 

Our family is composed of a father, a mother and nine siblings. We are seven boys and two girls which both our girls are the youngest. I am the 7th child, the youngest among the guys. We the siblings already know that we have three groups which each group have also three people who have similarity to each other. The 1st child the eldest, the 4th child and I the 7th are consider one group. They told us that we have the most similarity to our father. Then, the 2nd child, the 5th child and the 8th child are more look like our mother. Lastly, the 3rd child, the 6th child and the 9th child the youngest are the combination of our father and mother. We are same not just by looks but also most of our personality resemblance with our co-group siblings. 

As I looking up for an article I found this article “Split Family Faces” by Alice. I really don’t know if I can consider it an article because it has a very short article. What interest me most are the pictures which portrait how can you look like your family. 

In the article, the author is excited to show the works of Ulric Collette, Canada-based graphic designer and photographer. “Genetic Portraits” this is what Ulric calls for his project. By splitting the faces in half and then splicing them together, he creates new attractive people that are sometimes fairly typical looking and other times far from it. Ulric just accidentally came up to this idea as a project. 

For example these picture his brother Christopher (30 years old) and himself Ulric (29 years old). They almost look like twins which they have many similarity with their looks.

At these picture his son Nathan (7 years old) and himself Ulric. You can see how Nathan can be look like when he reached his father’s age. 

After seeing this pictures that Ulric made, I’m amazed that I can see clearly my similarity within our family. I never ever thought of regretting that I look like my father or with my other siblings. It somehow feels good to me that I share some similarity with my family. Now, I’m excited how my son or daughter will look alike. I’m really looking forward for this.