A decade after creating “Untitled (Chuck Close),” I recreated the same image, but this time with the intent to investigate religion, the ways in which our identity can appear to others, and what it means to be a Jew in America. I grew out my beard and traditional pais curls, and dressed in the clothes of the typical Ultra-Orthodox Jew. In depicting myself this way, I took on the visual markers of “Jewish” as a way to present my increased feelings of otherness as a Jewish man in the United States.