Doina of the Dark Side of the Sun.

This is a self-portrait. Through the lens of the Hanged Man Major Arcana Tarot Card. The left side of the background represents my Moldovan/Romanian/Dacian roots, hence the depiction of Dacian Draco – a military standard used by troops of the ancient Dacian people, which can be seen in the hands of the soldiers of Decebalus on Trajan's Column in Rome. The draco shows a religious syncretism between the wolf and the dragon as well as the serpent. It was supposed to encourage the Dacians and to scare their enemies.
The right side represents my venturing beyond my heritage, the story of, at times turbulent, but determined, sailing into the western world, embracing its culture (especially Celtic and Norse), braiding it into my own. In Celtic mythology, the salmon often representing wisdom, knowledge, and the power of memory, which ties him into the identity of the Hanged Man, Odin hanging himself on Yggdrasill to acquire knowledge. Salmon also is the one, who swims upstream, against current.
This is an auto-portrait in progression of life, - the perpetual acquisition of knowledge and experience, through what used to feel like a sacrifice, yet turns out to be merely the path of learning. The path one is undertaking for their own self thus sacrificing to no one but their own self.

From Hávamál. The Words of Odin the High One.
from the Elder or Poetic Edda .

139. I ween that I hung | on the windy tree,
Hung there for nights full nine;
With the spear I was wounded, | and offered I was
To Odin, myself to myself,
On the tree that none | may ever know
What root beneath it runs.

142. Then began I to thrive, | and wisdom to get,
I grew and well I was;
Each word led me on | to another word,
Each deed to another deed.