Liza Tilakdhari

Untitled1982

Eagerness

Cindy Sherman to me is a female "Jack of all trades." this woman has and continues to break many barriers and thresholds facing us today. She has a voice for the voiceless. She is living proof that you can be anyone you want. For over 30 years this phenomenal woman, all by herself has posed in front of her own camera, conveying and capturing images of herself in all sorts of costumes, positions and conceptualizations that nobody in her generation would dare to do. 

But overtime her ideas seemed to influence and fuel an entire generation of woman in the way they portrayed themselves to the public eye. she made them blossom and through her images told them that it was okay to stand out, it was okay for them to not conform, and it was definitely okay for them to be anyone they wanted to be. Her work influenced women to not value anyone's perception of them, but themselves. This powerful concept was known as the "Cindy Sherman Effect." 

For my selfies i took my own spin on the image called "Untitled 1982'', which was captured in a sort of chromogenic filter, but i added black and white to mine. Her image conveys a lot of feelings. More prevalent ones including raging excitement but underlying uncertainty, which in itself embodies our perception of the future before us. 

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