Francesca Woodman – Untitled

FW also use clothing and patterns to camouflage to show a fusion of space integration as a whole.

For example, in these two works, FW leaned against a wall rugged like fish bone and she was wearing a grass leaf pattern dress, her right hand was holding a fish bone spines to decor her bare and smooth back, it echoes the stripes of the wall. She was intoxicated integrate with the wall.

Untitled, New York, 1979


Untitled, New York, 1979

Untitled, New York, 1980

She was lying in the bathtub, the check pattern of the floor and the cement pipeline stains of the wall, all of these make people feel inexplicable horror.

Bathtub = Uterus

Lying in the bathtub = Lying in the coffin like uterus.

This seems to imply that she can return to the space of maternal integration only by death,  FW in her photograph to show her pursuit of life and care, and the desire of return to mother.

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