- FRANCESCA WOODMAN: ALWAYS A ?

It was on a rainy evening few weeks ago that the below photo arrived to the FindingEidothea mail inbox with a note saying : "Maria Garozi & Garia August remind me of this photo"

Looking carefully through the photo I wrote the below poem totally inspired by the presence of the two figures in this room; or could it be one figure in the eyes of the photographer? or could it be the photographer herself?-



Foto: Francesca Woodman

-FEET AND HAIR.

The hour passed by slowly
Each second, each minute was ignorant
of what would become to the two figures
who seem so distant
but yet were the exact same propwpopoihshs
in the eyes of her camera -

Feet that remains still
Feet that is scared to walk
outside of the destiny door
A destiny; which is a given mysery
within the imagination of those who think know better -


Hair that is loose
Hair that is playful
Body and feet that is free
to jump out of the door
and create its own destiny
A destiny; which is an imaginery experiment
To love and hate,
To feel pleasure and feel pain
To live and die
To create and destroy
even if this translates
to creating a new self
till she destroys it-

-Garia August

For more info on Francesca Woodman's monograph book with her work you can check http://www.phaidon.com/