June 6, 2020
Cindy Sherman: Inventor of the “selfie”
A young friend of mine has been using her quarantine time to create atmospheric drama-laden self portraits in all corners of her home. Both her mother and I compared her work to Cindy Sherman. Decades before the cell phone and its associated filters Sherman made a career of making her own image the center of her interaction with the world. If you are sick of being stuck at home, wishing you could “get away from it all”, getting away from yourself might be a well-spent afternoon.
