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Frida Kahlo Response
"Kahlo “carefully groomed her unibrow,” a defiant choice at a time when “many depilatory methods existed. That brow was meaningful because it didn’t conform to Hollywood beauty standards.”
- I find it rather fascinating that she kept an unibrow during this period as the beauty standards for women strayed away from her typical style. I applaud her for not conforming to the Hollywood standards but instead opting to create her own standard. It takes a truly powerful and self sufficient person to swim against the waves that so often dictated what is acceptable and what isn't.
"But Kahlo did not conceal her pain, revealing her casts and leather braces with metal buckles in her work and turning her plaster corsets into art with elaborate designs of flowers, even a hammer and sickle. “She treated these second skins as canvases,” Ms. Small said."
- Although Kahlo had a tough life in terms of her physical conditions, she never allowed it to hold her back from her true calling of creation and expression. She was able to find ways to reconfigure something that was a result of a condition into a means of expression. I take inspiration from her approach and perspective to creation and expression, it's not a matter of want rather a matter of need.
Self Portrait
Inspired by Frida Kahlo's exploration of self identity, I've create a self portrait collage that uses found images that have an essence of who I am and reflection the conditions/times that we're living in.
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