Untitled #2

Although provided with a title, 'Trans-Fixed', I wanted to include this image of Chris Burden which could be read, as a photograph, within the same context as the previous images. The similarities are striking, with the same melancholic and tragic reading of some kind of victim, with the obvious religious connotations.

On reading the act of performance, Chris Burden takes masochism one step further by having the 'participant' (or accomplice) nail him to the roof of the car....

Untitled by Francesca Woodman

I cannot deny that Francesca Woodmans' photographs have cracked me round the head on numerous occasions. Two painkillers and a good nights sleep later, I have always returned, intrigued and alarmed by whats' in front of me. That's not to say I have this experience every time, quite the opposite. Every moment with her photographs tell me something new, something I never saw previously and indeed, something I can never forget.

Margaret Sundell (in Vanishing Points: The Photography of Francesca Woodman) describes her images that "seek out and surpass the borders between subject and object, self and environment, and in sensibility they reveal a moment hovering between adolescence and adulthood..."

This particular image haunts me like no other.