hauntings

I blame Summer Pierre for getting me all hooked and obsessed with this photographer Francesca Woodman:

The images in her work are so haunting and inexplicable, yet they remind me of my own childhood (women and girls with long hair and flowy cotton flower-print dresses in dilapidated houses...you know, hippie-kid-growing-up-rural stuff). The feeling I get from looking at them is diconcerting. It is as if something that explains what is happening is always just off frame.

Also incredibly sad and creepy is that this young artist killed herself at age 22 by "trying to fly" out a window (wow, a cat just started yowling outside the window and scared me!).Though I don't want to join the cult of celebrity suicide... this feels pertinent to me now, 2 women I knew killed themselves in the last 6 months and both in the same desperate way: hanging. It is beyond everything I could ever understand. It seems to me to be extra frightening because it is such an act of violence to the one you should love most: yourself.