Polisemiotismo in a poem by Octavio Paz

Retrato is a poem that contains several layers of texts, each one of them suggests an entrance into the next one and an exit from the preceding one. Polisemiotics is a construction that allows us to read and see at the same time. It is a semiotic practice that constructs other linguistic dimensions without losing readability. The central subject is Yosoytu, in the mode of the gathas and koans from Zen. The virtual borders frame a Tu which is a self before a mirror, a portrait or Retrato. The visible becomes transparent.