Artist Reply: Sarina, Thank you for your comment. Yes, the silhouette serves several purposes; 1) with what you said..."Picture yourself here" 2)No reference to gender or race. I really hate having to keep in mind what people will think if you used a male or female or why this race and not another. But, in our days, the PC is in everything. I used a female in one of our back covers in our magazines and someone on our department complained because we used a female that appeared to be stress and sad. I told her the woman was the only one around in uniform at the time we needed to take the picture. Can't please them all.