‘Odd’

‘Odder’

‘A Genius Who Lost the Plot’ – Zoolon’s title
‘On Being An Angel’ by Francesca Woodman. Her own pic; her own much better title

The photographic artist Francesca Woodman was not just a mad – in a good way – genius, she was a dream come true for a songwriter. Maybe she was a dream? When I was in the process of composing two inter-connected songs about her life and death for my ‘Pigeons Are Switzerland’ album back in the Spring of 2018 she felt like a dream. A dream that starts off happy and ends up sad. For the record, more often than not she was her own muse as her portfolio reveals.

I did run a post about her in July 2018. I hadn’t thought about either composition until the other day when checking my stats it revealed the two tracks, ‘Francesca’ & ‘Eastside 1981’ have…