This is who I am. This is who I consider myself to be. I like to see myself as someone who's expressive, being able to show off my multiple qualities. I can act cocky, humble, crazy, sophisticated, masculine, or feminine. I do not care what people think of me. I like being normal, but I like being weird as well. Fitting in just for the sake of fitting in, being popular, is overrated in my eyes. It's fun to be weird, to contradict social norms on gender, to be expressive. Not fitting in is the most unique thing I, or anybody for that matter, can do. However, this is an example of only one of my many qualities, much like most, if not all, of Janis' and Cindy's works.
Like many artists, Janis felt inspired by Cindy's particular art of the self photograph. Every photograph, that Cindy Sherman took, told a story. Every photo was a character of her invention, to personify a fragment of what makes up her personality. Some were weird. Some were, simply, normal. Regardless, Cindy wanted us to see a story with each photograph, and Janis, in her own way, replicated this style.
There were several interesting pieces in Janis Maschucci's exhibit, including her portraying Wonder Woman, Cleopatra, Marilyn Monroe, and several others. These are just a few of the many portraits in her exhibit, but they tell so much. From an outside perspective, such as my own, one could get the idea that Janis aspires to be powerful like Cleopatra, strong like Wonder Woman, or as beautiful as Monroe, or perhaps they represent how she perceives the difference aspects of her personality, as I suggested before.
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