Brian Herring – Final Project

     For my final project, I wanted to create a series of portraits exploring identity in similitude to Jack Pierson, Cindy Sherman, and Zoe Crosher. In the world we live in, we conceal our own identities behind masks in the form of Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and numerous other social media. Fostered by the pervasiveness of social media and electronic communication, disconnectedness is inherent in young adulthood. Take a look around and observe the average college-age, earphone-wearing, smartphone-using 20-somethings who walk around and among other humans completely unaware of them or lacking any desire to communicate with them. We don’t know them. They don’t know us. Is it egocentrism? Narcissism? Our preference for artificial identities rendered through social media typifies our post-modern age.