guises

Listening to Shugo Tokumaru this afternoon has been a glorious trip. All of his lyrics are sung in Japanese and before very recently I had never heard his music, yet I feel as though I've been hearing him for a while now. His sound taps into familiar melodies, warm melodies, melodies that stick with you. It got me thinking about the concept of the guise- not in the sense of how an external can act as some sort of superficial barrier to a genuine, authentic interior, but the joy that I take in observing the creative guises artists can layer and manipulate and how these layers speak to our flawed desires to know the authentic. I will probably think aloud about this more in the future. Below is the master guise artist, Cindy Sherman and my attempt at persona art.

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Cindy Sherman