Dear Selma, This is a small jewel of reflectiion! Your articulation of Frida Kahlo's oeuvre and its resonance with your core being is commendable, refreshing, and mature. As one who prefers to view the world - the phenomenological, in the layering and meshing of religion, sexuality and consciousness; I admire your putting these views out on this forum. They suggest a well lived and as well as a distressed modernity. Modernity after all is not only about having the best designer stuff, nor about eating $5 samosas. People, and artists like Frida kept pace and lived the modern to logical conclusions in their lives. In doing so, they give us glimpses into our own realities, in forms and strands that we rarely would come by, unless via the epiphanic, theophanic or like Kekule in a dream; very rarely through logical reasoning. So lets me say it better -- its awesome!
Frida was "polytomous," in complexity of being -- gender and sex, vision, and perception. Not split, but distinct yet constantly evolving, and in so being -- whole as in in a continuum. Much like a hologram. In your pointing the part about Kahlo's infertlity, you appear to suggest a myriad of infertilities in the expectations and desires from our bodies as well as our accomplishments, when they are fulfilled. At least that is how I read it. It must be true that in her case the relationship and difference between her gender and sex as opposed to what one understands of those categories, and her expression in pansexuality was her struggle -- an exuberance to experiencing life, a constancy of it -- while dealing with her infertility. Btw, Leon was a dud but he was at the right place at the right time and aggressive at that. Must have been the beard or being regarded as the beacon that promised to change the to world. I look forward to reading more of your thoughts on the arts in the kindred plains of the humanities. venantius Selma wrote (excepted): > Subject: Re: [Goanet] The Dichotomous Frida Kahlo > Frida, however, appeals to me at a more personal > level. Her struggle with her infertility lay heavy on > her heart and seeped into the very fibre of her > artistic expression. Her longing for life to consume > her womb and life's utter betrayal became her central > theme. > > selma >
