Last day in the city - Frida

Bus down to Coyoacán, to see the huge tree park(where every tree is different!) and plant nurseries of flowers I have never seen before. As Frida Kahlo’s home town, I luckily got a last min expensive ticket for myself to go in and see her family home that she lived in her entire short life and shared with Diego Rivera her passionate tumultuous lifetime partner (cheated on her with her own sister) who is also a painter but fuck him. An icon she was - who went through so much pain. A tram accident gave her a life full of surgeries. Being bed bound and imprisoned she painted her way out of her own reality. It was amazing to see the life around her through her belongings and living spaces, with her studio preserved you can see where should sit and create in her wheelchair. Her beautiful traditional dresses, headwear and jewellery from Oaxaca, preserved her mother’s culture, even though it was not the popular fashion of the time. So politically engaged in the revolution, she even had an affair with Trotsky lol. Did I say she was openly bisexual in the 1940s too? Love her so much.

Evening flight to Mazunte - our beach home for the next week!Read more