my work Marilynisms, introduces women, every day women as channeling bodies in the re-creation of Marilyn Monroe in images through the lens. Hauntingly evocative, Marilynisms unexpectedly adds on to the already vast and inexhaustible amount of the existing Marilyn Monroe archives. Disturbingly uncanny, the resemblance and detailed similarities to Marilyn materialize into a panoply of visual tributes, as an homage, to the late icon. Here Marilyn the “Movie-Star” still shines through, and so should she, since to this day she still remains the quintessence of what that term truly means. Still, Marilyn the woman, the person, comes through just as strongly and feelings of a more subdued nature take place. Private moments are revealed, intimate glimpses into her world where reflection, introspection and bittersweet melancholy are always omnipresent. As an act of ressurection, Marilynisms offers an nostalgic look at Marilyn the person, the human being who to this day has always stood in the shadow of her own ethereal creation to reveal the more ingenuous, skeptic, solitary as well as tender and of course always alluring woman she was. My aim in this work was, though rather simple in thought, a lot more challenging in reality, give Marilyn a new life with the aid of what has appeared to be her all time favorite medium, the camera, the tool thru which she expressed herself best, using it as a mirror of sort to validate, some argue, her existence…? but indeniably and first and foremost, her dreams.