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| Cindy Sherman Untitled (Portrait) 1975 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Cindy Sherman Untitled (Farmer's Daughter) 1975 gelatin silver print Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Cindy Sherman (Secretary) 1978 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Cindy Sherman Scale Relationship Series: The Giant 1978 cut-out gelatin silver prints mounted on board Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #9 1978 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #14 1978 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #15 1978 gelatin silver print Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #22 1978 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #23 1978 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #27 1979 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #29 1979 gelatin silver print Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #33 1979 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #45 1979 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Cindy Sherman Untitled #66 1980 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Cindy Sherman Untitled #70 1980 C-print Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Cindy Sherman Untitled #76 1980 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
from Persephone the Wanderer
In the first version, Persephone
is taken from her mother
and the goddess of the earth
punishes the earth – this is
consistent with what we know of human behavior,
that human beings take profound satisfaction
is doing harm, particularly
unconscious harm:
we may call this
negative creation.
Persephone's initial
sojourn in hell continues to be
pawed over by scholars who dispute
the sensations of the virgin:
did she cooperate in her rape,
or was she drugged, violated against her will,
as happens so often now to modern girls.
As is well known, the return of the beloved
does not correct
the loss of the beloved: Persephone
returns home
stained with red juice like
a character in Hawthorne –
I am not certain I will
keep this word: is earth
"home" to Persephone? Is she at home, conceivably,
in the bed of the god? Is she
a born wanderer, in other words
an existential
replica of her own mother, less
hamstrung by ideas of causality?
You are allowed to like
no one, you know. The characters
are not people.
They are aspects of a dilemma or conflict.
Three parts: just as the soul is divided,
ego, superego, id. Likewise
the three levels of the known world,
a kind of diagram that separates
heaven from earth from hell.
You must ask yourself:
where is it snowing?
White of forgetfulness,
of desecration –
It is snowing on earth; the cold wind says
Persephone is having sex in hell.
Unlike the rest of us, she doesn't know
what winter is, only that
she is what causes it.
– Louise Glück (2006)