'It’s painful to see your actual art and expressions and concepts just completely plagiarized.'
After releasing promotional images for Cyrus' recently released EP,people began pointing out that the video clips she used, which showcase someone's fingers intimately caressing various fruits, looked suspiciously similar to work artist"Disgusted," Sarley told BuzzFeed News, is how she felt when she saw Cyrus' promo images."It’s like my entire thing."
"She looks lame as hell carbon copying me, looking like a doppelgänger when she’s a gigantic pop star and I’m out here as a real artist working at this shit everyday with visibility and working for years building my art following and having faced adversity over it," she said. Sarley, a 30-year-old living in Berkley, does freelance art in the entertainment industry to make ends meet. She said she first noticed her work may have been copied without proper credit after being tipped off by followers. Sarley said she went to Cyrus' Instagram page and thought it was"very apparent that what they did to me was super deliberate.
Though Cyrus' video uses three different types of fruits being fingered seductively, the execution is seemingly very much in line with the work Sarley has produced, seen below.Sarley said she was"upset" with what Cyrus and her team have done because it"directly chips away at my livelihood and ability to feel creative openness at times while dealing with it."
"It’s painful to see your actual art and expressions and concepts just completely plagiarized," she said."Just for money. For clout. It’s jaw dropping. You think,
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