Francesca Woodman, an amazing photographer, committed suicide on January 19th, 1981 by jumping out of a loft window in New York. She has often been compared to writer Sylvia Plath.
http://www.artpages.org.ua/index.php?option=com_datsogallery&Itemid=104&func=viewcategory&catid=38
Her work is full of so much emotion. And I can't begin to imagine what great things she would have continued to do if she was still around creating art.
Words can't even explain how beautiful her work is.
This work is absolutely beautiful. The presence/absence that she evokes/implies/creates is really stunning...
ReplyDeleteSo, one of the things I wonder is whether thinking of an artist, or writer, or taxi cab driver as "someone who was a suicide" automatically lays a patina over that person's life that we have trouble getting through. It is such a huge thing that falls and drapes over the absence of a life; I wonder how it is that we negotiate it. Obviously we can't ignore it and push it down and away, but how do we not let it become who that person effectively 'is' for us?