final image making

This image was a lot of fun to make. I really enjoyed learning about Frida Khalo and recognizing the different symbols that she is associated with. I wanted her index's to represent what she was on the outside. Although most of her index's also have a much deeper meaning, they are easy to identify with Frida. Her index's include the beads, representing her Mexican heritage. A lot of her inspiration in her career was based on her proud Mexican heritage. She is also one probably the most famous Mexican woman artist. Indexical compounds like the flowers and birds represent different things she enjoyed to be surrounded by. Another symbol of her is her hair. This symbol can be interrupted in many different ways, for example her facial hair was very recognizable. She had a unibrow and a mustache, trying to establish her natural femininity. She also once cut off all her hair after her husband had an affair with her sister. Frida was also bi-sexual, by cutting off her hair she represented herself as a man. I thought it would also be appropriate to put a portrait of Diego Rivera. Her relationship with Diego was rocky, but in the end they did find happiness with each other. The biggest symbol would be the the bed. As many people know she was in a horrific bus crash, in which she should have died. This bed is where she spent much of her time painting. The isolation of being bed ridden is, to me, what makes her such a remarkable individual.