Cindy Sherman: Mannequins & Masks | Art21 "Extended Play"

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I think the sausages

from one of the sex pictures are here.

I don't know...

Some of the leaves

I've used in backgrounds of

some of the fairytales,

and the rocks I used

in some of the fairytales.

Uh, this one was one that I made from...

I don't know, what series you'd call it,

But it was,

sort of,

I guess, part of those

disastery kind of...

masks that I did.

I think this one I used in

that kiss one. It was like an upside--

It was like--

I think it was with this head.

I think they were like that, together,

and I took a picture like that,

something like that.

And...

But some of them, I haven't used.

That one was actually,

I forgot where she was.

I was looking for her.

She was the one I used to use as the...

sort of, fill in for me.

It's like the thing I focus on.

Basically, I have this-

head, on, a tripod that I use

to stand in for myself.

So then, what I do is, figure out

where the camera is gonna be

and put a piece of tape down,

and then put tape down according to where,

the, um...

the eye line is.

So then the tricky part is,

when I'm actually shooting myself

in the picture,

to make sure that I'm always, like,

gauging, as closely as I can estimate,

where the focus is,

and it doesn't always work.

So, y'know, sometimes I'll have to move it

from side to side, depending on,

which side I'm favoring,

or try to move it closer

if I can't really tell.

Yeah, it's just really important

to sort of know, just look at myself

and, figure out,

what's working and what's not.