Most people are greatly familiar with the squares and rectangles that automatically appear around peoples faces when uploading photos on FB. In Couplands portraits on the other hand, the squares has been filled up with rich colors that carries associations to artists such as Mondrian and Delaunay. Instead of connecting faces with identity, they vaguely connects us to a stereotype or a type of person through the title: a “dude” and a “romeo” but layered and obscured with art history references. In the latest portraits he used soldiers behind colorful squares, which is also a very “uniform” group of people. Coupland might be commenting some sort of removal of the individual, that by obscuring your face, you prevent yourself from being recorded by social media and less information can be extracted.