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In this interview it talks about how she started off as a young kid with imagination dressing up and her intimate relationships, in a way this brought us closer to her pov and helped me understand why she choose these certain ideas, Cindy Sherman has no limit in her work and purposely tries to make us feel unconfutable. Her alter egos are nothing as to what she is like for example she once transformed herself in to a series of middle American wives and ex-wives.

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she exhumed all kinds of horror using fake limbs and plastic boobs; subsequently, things got even more grotesque, with lavish photographs featuring fake vomit and rotting food. (That period was, she says now, a direct challenge to the art market that had appropriated her as its latest squeeze. “I was like, do they really like the work? Well, let’s see them put this over the dining table – I had fun making those pictures.”)

Partly it is to do with the emotional aspects of ageing, her sense of mortality. She has, she says, come through a “few rough years” and, like the heroines she inhabits, lived to tell the tale.

There are pictures of her as a girl of 12 already wanting to know how it might feel to be old, bent over and disguised by thick prescription glasses, an old sun hat, her stockings bunched around her ankles. Now she is approaching pensionable age, it is with a sense of defiance and curiosity.

In the recent past, she has transformed herself into a series of middle-American wives and ex-wives, Botoxed and wearing the marks of surgical enhancement like scars of war; the current pictures are more dignified.

She worked out some of her fantasies in front of the TV. “There was a show that was called The Million Dollar Movie. Every day at the same time they would play the same movie. I watched King Kong over and over. And other schlocky horror movies, Japanese monster movies.

She believed she could help him overcome his addiction, but it did not work out like that. There was another ill-fated relationship with a film-maker called Paul H-O, which ended when he made an intrusive documentary, Guest of Cindy Sherman, about his dislike of being thought of in the art world as her inconsequential plus-one. Being single has liberated her, she believes.

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my alter ego

Stephany Cortez is a better version of me she has power and is very wealthy because of her family and uncle that left her money she lives in an island that her her grandma bought for her although she already has her own business as a lawyer her hobbies are reading books and going to fashion runways nearly every Saturday and visiting her grandmother in London traveling in her private helicopter. You would usually see Stephaney with a louis viton bag and channel custom made earrings however she does have a drinking problem which causes her to over spend and quickly lose money by gambling, her signature look is a black and white diamonds necklace around her neck and her name at the bottom of every blazered suit that she wears. Her character is very empowered and respected because of all the help she has given to back at her home country, she is very forgiving and kind who never holds a grudge but will always remember everything. This alter ego is nothing like me because I have not reached the same amount of wealth that she has and she is what I would like to be in the future. if you were to see her day in the life scenario it would most likely be her waking up having her personal chef and going out to buy some new shoes in her limo and having to walk her dog very 5 hours, she is mostly alone every day which is why she chooses to visit her grandmother when she does get the chance. I feel as if everyone has someone they would like to be in the future maybe a role model but I wouldn’t say they would copy them but instead create their own similar alter ego.

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rachel maclean

Rachel Maclean is an artist that create short films or a sort of music that involves a green screen and dressing up as different characters sometimes duplicating herself on to a green because she only uses herself to play so many parts whilst using a voice over sometimes of male or other women and sometimes imitating a sound effect.as stated in an interview she was in she said her videos are meant to make us feel “uncomfortable” .I personally feel like she is succeeding by using strange and questionable outfits such as covering herself with a yellow mask with a ski mask and googles. Rachel MacLean’s alter ego can either be her with a dramatic makeup look with pink crazy hair or a woman? creature in a suit which does not match its choice in voice for example using a deep low voice but dressed as a very bright pink haired women. All of her alter egos are very successful to me and they were played very well.

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david bowie music artist

David bowie is a normal artist that had a bigger image of what he could potentially become which then lead to him having his many alter egos such as major tom, Ziggy star dust, Aladdin sane and the white duke, David bowie was known as the ultimate style and musical chameleon, however his most famous alter ego was Ziggy stardust which was a glam rock and flamboyant androgynous. You wouldn’t be able to recognise him from his real self with all the makeup and crazy hair style that he would come up with. I believe that David bowie created all these alter egos to fit into and turn its musical character and what his audience most likely looked like, also to stick out of the ordinary. In my opinion this Ziggy stardust alter ego is what truly made it believable, mainly because this is what started his glam phase and is the most famous face of David bowie.

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alter ego week 1 initial task

The split movie

The actor James McAvoy played Kevin in the movie split which is based on true events, the movie starts off with the main character Kevin kidnapping 3 teenage girls and holding them hostage underneath a zoo. Kevin is suffering from dissociative identity disorder and has 23 alter egos however the movie chose to only show 7, one being a Hedwig a 9-year-old boy, Barry a level headed, Dennis very temperamental, Patricia sophisticated, jade a teen age girl, Orwell is very intelligent and the beast which is his 24thpersonality. I believe that they focused their film on to a character with an alter ego to create art and curiosity to grab on to the audience and have them wonder what else is this person capable of and their limits, also bring awareness of how easily it is for a person with a serious disorder to be un noticed by everyone. All 23 of Kevin’s alter egos are impossible to compare to one another its range in ages and physical attraction for example his 9-year-old personality imitates how a young boy would act and think because he ended up kissing one of the teenage girls which shows he is different from his real self. Personally all his alter egos were played perfectly and I thought they were very believable.

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Research

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yh i had fun doing this 

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whats inspired me