thinking about death frida kahloPainted in 1943, this painting is a symbolic self portrait in which Frida Kahlo expresses her intimate, constant and almost familiar relationship with death. She painted it during a period marked by chronic pain and a series of hospitalisations. As in many of her works, death is not portrayed in a dramatic way, but as an omnipresent thought, rooted in everyday life and the mind. Frida is depicted straight on, staring straight ahead. On her forehead, a