Joy, Love and Youthfulness: Remembering Francesca Woodman’s Deeper Message on Being an Angel
Francesca Woodman is the master of her own style and shines her rare light upon the world of photography. Francesca has the unique ability to express a vast array of complimenting feelings, emotions and meanings through just one photograph, let alone the things that she has portrayed throughout her whole body of work consisting of over 10,000 photographs, yet only 120 have ever been published.
Her story is one of much sadness having become recognised after her suicide at the young age of 22. Francesca had suffered from depression. It is said that this was partly due to her being rejected by the art world although, of course the true depth of the reasons are unknown. Francesca’s main body of works were created mainly in her teens between 1972 and 1981.
Although there is has been much discussion over Francesca’s depression and struggles but little is said about the many other aspects of her being. What if she was attempting to reveal much more to us through her work, something deeper, something possibly even more true? And was it something just about her or was it something about all of us?
This article by Patrik MacPherson appears in full in Issue 9 of After Nyne Magazine. Click here to download Issue 9.
