Chatting with Vlatka who reported this from a book she's reading about Francesca Woodman:
12/08/2007 00:00 its a quote from her diary
12/08/2007 00:01 she's talking abt photographing charlie
12/08/2007 00:01 who was a professional model at risd
12/08/2007 00:01 (where she went to school)
12/08/2007 00:02 and she says
12/08/2007 00:02 'I guess he knows a lot about being flattened to fit paper'
12/08/2007 00:03 so she did a series of portraits of him
12/08/2007 00:03 where hes being flattened
12/08/2007 00:03 against a pane of glass