Only recently, I have read a text on self-love. It started off by pointing out how unique each and every one of us is, how it is a miracle that one exists. How we are special, how every individual on Earth is special. And I must say: I never liked this imagination.
She has been described as “a tequila-slamming, dirty joke-telling smoker, bi-sexual that hobbled about her bohemian barrio in lavish indigenous dress and threw festive dinner parties“. Way ahead of her time, Frida Kahlo is one of the most pulsating women in world history. The attempt of a portrait that does justice to this grand diva.
An illustration by Astrid Anquetin