Viva la Vida. Frida Kahlo, 1954.
Eight days before her death, Frida Kahlo finished this piece by adding the phrase ‘Viva la Vida Frida Kahlo, Coyoacon 1954 Mexcio’ to what would be her final painting.
A painting of brightly colored watermelons — a fruit with a hard outer shell protecting its juicy and supple insides. The particular addition of seeds signifies a life that lives on. A fitting celebration for the fantastic but also painful existence of Frida Kahlo.
Noguchi’s Butterflies
I can not walk
I can not see
Further than what
Is in front of me
I lay on my back
yet I do not cry
Transported in space by the butterflies.
Above my bed
Another sky
With the wings you sent
Within my sight
All pain dissolves
In another light
Transported thru
Time
By the butterfly
This little song
Came to me
Like a little gift as I stood
Beside the bed of Frida.
I give it to you with much love,
Patti Smith