Frida

One of the most instantly recognizable faces in history must surely be the woman who documented the beauty, tragedy, and pain she experienced in her all too short life. Frida Kahlo is a constant source of inspiration to me… an artist that, despite constant pain, found a way to push through and achieve an immortality seldom matched. She did this through something that would be easily recognizable in the current age of Instagram and Tic Toe: the selfie… but unlike that lot, there was nothing vapid about her painfully reflective self-portraits. It was a brutally honest accounting of what she experienced. But through most of her work, there was always that face. It links and weaves every pain...View all