This is one of Cindy Sherman’s photographs, I’d guess made in the early 90s, with props, dolls, and prosthetics. It's kind of a painterly process when you think about it. She assembles, arranges, then photographs. I think about what it’s like to be in the studio, and what she might have been thinking when she made it. I can imagine how the whole studio probably looks, strewn with all these objects. The work doesn't have any digital effects, so that must be the real texture of the material. Her work isn't about the photographic print itself. It's the making, the setting up of the tableau. It's about the artist as a solitary figure in her studio thinking, arranging, and imagining. She, like painters, are always in conversation with each other, a constant back and forth of ideas. Sherman’s work embraces ambiguity, and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations.
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