My friend's daughter has asked to make a drawing of Marylyn Monroe as a birthday present and so this morning I started searching for Monroe and it soon became apparent there is no true image of the late star. Every photograph is a manipulation of some truth of what we, the viewer, brings to experience. Now this is hardly a new revelation but it does make trying to produce something interesting an even greater challenge. The flip side of this is that anything you produce could be Marylyn - indeed searching through Google again and again you come up with Marylyn impersonators, some good some not so. It seems we all have our views as to what Ms Monroe should look like. An interesting challenge. 
BTW this is just a first stab at the problem and a particularly good likeness - although as I write this I really don't know what a good likeness might be!
Sent from my iPad
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