But lately i find a sliver of a mirror is simply to slice an eye lid
Francesca Woodman
…by drawing attention to the pressure of the glass edge against her soft skin, Woodman’s staged framing dramatizes the instant of cutting as a process, rather than its fragmented end result. In this act which Dubois emphasizes: likening the camera apparatus to the cutting edge of a knife, or the rasping blade of a razor, the action of the shutter is one of slicing and sectioning, the negative bearing the impression of the instant of exposure as an isolated and detached spatio-temporal tranche.
Harriet Katherine Riches, Skin, Surface and Subjectivity
It begins with a girl who is not a girl but a darkroom: poised in her dark dress with the glass plate in her hands, Woodman transfigures herself into the emblem of the darkroom.
Claire Raymond, Francesca Woodman’s Dark Gaze
Sliver of Mirror 8.5” x 11” or 11” x 13” each collage 2020
Dark Room various sizes collage 2021
Communicating Vessels 8.5” x 11” each collage 2021
Killing the Angel 8.5” x 11” each collage 2020
