-"AUN NO PELONA, AUN NO"

Frida referred to death as "La Pelona" (The bald one). At times, her pain on her spinal column was so severe after her accident, that she would comment -"at least La Pelona didn't take me"-. Frida was pregnant twice in her 20's according to letters found to her doctor after her death. The first time, she decided to have an abortion seeing as it was an inconvenient time for her and Diego to have a child, and the second time she was pregnant, it is disputed whether she had a miscarriage or another abortion. Frida was very devastated at the fact that she became unable to carry a child due to her physical impairment and she poured her feelings making the 1st painting centered around the pain of losing a baby. Her painting was bloody and graphic, and it was considered to be inappropriate for women to make paintings like these. A year before Frida died at the age of 47, her leg was amputated as a result of gangrene and she designed her own prosthetic. 

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-"Aun no Pelona, aun no" (Not yet Death, not yet) shows Frida getting ready for a common day with her prosthetic leg waiting, and natural flowers for her hair. Her spinal column throbbing in pain and very present. La Pelona, with one of her unborn dead babies in hand appears as to remind her that her time is near. The butterfly is a symbol: it is weak and dying and at the same time, still flying low and flapping its wings. Frida tells Death that she is not ready yet to join her. She sheds a tear in pain but what keeps her alive is her love for art as her heart is attached to the paint pallete. Frida often painted herself with her heart outside her body and I was inspired by a painting she made of her broken column. I hope she is proud. 

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