Jamella- Cindy Sherman effect

                                                            The Cindy Sherman Effect 

Jamella Williams- Alone at breakfast 

Cindy Sherman has shown herself to be the ultimate master of self-morphing, utilizing everything from old-fashioned makeup and prosthetics to digital technology, inventing and portraying extraordinary alter egos and multiple identities that brilliantly reflect our image-saturated culture—and in the process, inventing her own genre, (Hoban,2012). 

 

I agree with this quote; I believe Cindy came along too early for her generation; if not, she was a subconscious blueprint this era, or might I this era of social media. As said later down in the passage, "Her work presaged the media age that we live in now and how we respond to it," The way she portrays versatility in her looks and creates these looks to compliment or add to her environment is what makes her pieces artful. Like her, pictures we see so commonly on Instagram, where users aid to become the center through their creations of different personas with the use of material vanity to produce art that compliments their environment through allowing it to embody them.

                                                             Jamella Williams- Alone at bath 

"And by limiting her subject matter strictly to herself, while at the same time excavating countless permutations she inspired a generation of younger artists to explore their own identities,"(Hoban, 2012). 

I agree with this quote; Cindy in art, it's almost like instead of adapting to the environment, she lets the environment adjust to her and her miraculous persona's. Similar to today, we beautify the environment with our artistic outlooks, whether it be a different hairdo, an exotic outfit, acrylics, or other jewelry's that enhance our features; through this we aim to become one with the environment unifying both unique pieces into one ultimately elaborate work of art. 

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Through my pictures, I showed through imagery the beauty of being alone, in some parts, its like Cindy, a form of self-exploration- the way I view my selfies are me exploring myself in every aspect of the common world, and me understanding the beauty of doing and embracing things on their own.