I don't say I'm a Muslim artist any more than I would say I am a black artist or a Mancunian artist, but they are all facets of my identity.
They are behind how sound and light move, and there are reasons to suspect they are involved in our perception of beauty and other facets of how our minds work - so trigonometry turns out to be fundamental to pretty much everything.
His recent book, Me, Myself And Us, takes the view that one of the most important facets of the self is the "personal project".
Peggy McIntosh described one of the facets of white privilege as being able to dress and behave however she wanted without her individual conduct being seen as reflective of her entire race.
One of the most notable facets of Amazon's business model is the way it hands power to the customer, allowing anyone to submit scripts from which pilots are chosen and then asking viewers to vote on which should be developed.
"ExxonMobil's longstanding support of a small cadre of global climate change sceptics, and those sceptics' access to and influence on government policymakers, have made it increasingly difficult for the United States to demonstrate the moral clarity it needs across all facets of its diplomacy," the letter said.
These are the facets of the pursuit they love, and explain why, rather than laying just one trail, they lay many, so that no one knows precisely which one (if any) the hounds will follow.
It was a wide-ranging and lengthy conversation covering some of the issues I've covered in this blog and beyond, the gist of which was that the various crises we face today - from climate change to the economy - are not separate, distinct crises, but rather facets of a wider crisis of industrial civilisation in its current form.
"And, I proceeded to explore all of life's other facets.
An identical group of genes has since been found to determine that development in men.Insect eyes differ fundamentally from animal eyes: the fly focuses light over a large radius through hundreds of separate facets, while animals focus it over a smaller radius through a single lens.
It was agreed that, within ten years, non-whites should own a quarter of "all facets" of the industry.This is proving relatively easy to achieve, at least in downstream sales of petrol, where small retailers have long been encouraged and are often black-owned.
