T HE ONE W IT H T HE VIOLET S
THE ONE WITH THE VIOLETS
THE ONE WITH THE VIOLETS CLAUDIA WOODS
A retrospective including images from:
Series One Violets
Series Two Peaches
All images by Claudia Woods with each taking inspiration from a fragment of Sappho’s poetry
Images from the series
THE ONE WITH THE VIOLETS A Retrospective
“I want to say something but shame prevents me. Yet if you had desire for good or beautiful things and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say, shame would not hold down your eyes but rather you would speak about what is just” Sappho, Fragment 137
“So Very Delicate a Girl” 2020
“But Me You Have Forgotten.” 2020
“Shame Would Not Hold Down Your Eyes” 2020
“You will remember for we in our youth did these things” 2021
“Pity, trembling, flesh by now old age covers flies in pursuit Noble, taking, sing to us The one with the violets in her lap mostly goes astray” Sappho, Fragment 21
“Yet if you had desire for good or beautiful things shame would not hold down your eye” 2020
‘Gathering Flowers so Very Delicate a Girl’ 2020 Opposite: ‘Photo collage’ 2020
“With Violets in her Lap” 2020
The One With the Violets: a Retrospective
First Edition
May 2021 All Photographs © Claudia Woods
Introduction by Claudia Woods Poetry by Sappho from the collection “If Not, Winter”
Design and sequence by Claudia Woods
PHOT OGRAPHY INSPIRED BY T HE POET RY OF SAPPHO