Kyle Pangilinan - Weekly Selfie #2 - Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman --- Untitled Film Still #29, 1979

Recreation "Home"

I recreated one of Sherman's Untitled Film Stills. From this particular photo, I perceive that I am coming home from a rough day, but barely having the strength to move from the door-- hunched by the corner, sluggishly stretching my arm out.

The Cindy Sherman Effect by Phoebe Hoban for ARTnews

• "Sherman’s dazzling skill as a perpetual shape-shifter is perhaps her major contribution to contemporary art. A less conspicuous but equally important legacy involves the way her work has permanently blurred the line between fine art and photography."

• "True to form, Sherman’s approach remains modestly low tech. Although her most recent work relies on Photoshop to subtly alter her face, provide intricate backgrounds, or even clone similar personae within a single piece, “I still like the idea of challenging myself through the more hands-on methods, only because I think it’s more challenging when you are limited,” Sherman says."

I resonate with Sherman's sentiment, that artists can use more than one medium to express themselves, as well as provide a challenge that will complement an artist's thought process in their body of work.

The Ugly Beauty of Cindy Sherman - by Parul Sehgal for The NY Times Magazine

• "But with the Instagram series, Sherman isn’t riffing on recognizable archetypes. Her new mock self-portraits are of ordinary people, albeit cartoonishly caricatured. They are some of the first pure protagonists in Sherman’s work: These women are not metaphors, they are not waiting to be represented, rescued or destroyed. They are gloriously, catastrophically themselves, and we meet them on their own terms — as we so frequently meet each other — in stagy, embarrassing, endearing selfies launched into the world."

• "I felt like this straggler that was running after them, saying: ‘Hey, remember me?’ ” she said in a later interview. “ ‘Don’t forget about me!’ It was easy to erase myself and put on somebody else’s face and say, ‘Maybe now you guys will remember me,’ or ‘How about this face or that character?’” But sometimes it was safer to be forgotten."

With each passing day, I try to make the best out of the only life I have. One of the many things I desire is connection, through my artwork and interaction. However, when I was much younger, I was careless with how I approached other people, all for the sake of connection. Looking back, I regret having met certain people and wish I had been more knowledgeable in avoiding them. Now, I decided to express myself in the only way I knew how, through art, to better understand who I am. Whether or not my art will reach out to other people, this will overall help me throughout my life.