“I am the Person I Know Best”
Painting has always been my teleport from the real world. I would paint everything from monsters, sunrises, people, and occasionally flowers that would generate my mood to blossom. However, as I began to grow older my creativity began to die off as quickly as my self esteem. The monsters from my paintings were real; painting was not an escape from reality anymore. Instead it was like everything surrounding me was turning into a magical realism portrait. Everything was jumping off the was the canvas into the real world. I was an ugly diminutive girl and people would ridicule my imperfections, I was even told that I resembled Frida Kahlo. I did not recognize who this woman was, nevertheless my curiosity obtained the best of me. Before I knew it my google search bar already had “Frida Kahlo” typed in. My heart broke as I scrolled down to observe a great deal of self-portraits. What distinct characteristic did I have to be compared? Tears ran down my face and I knew I needed to live with myself, this was me.
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During her healing process Kahlo began doing her world renown self portraits. The portraits I was compared to. As she grew older she overcame her disability and began to walk again. Her optimistic outlook on life never ended and she never gained self-doubt. She dazzled the man of her dreams with confidence and with her art. His name was Diego Rivera and his fame greatly exceeded hers during the time. Even through her horrible marriage with Diego, Kahlo always found herself and her passion for art. Some of her masterpieces were even controversial to politics during the Mexican