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"Like all Kahlo's work, this painting manifests her lifelong battle with pain. In English, it is also called What I Saw in the Water and is a self-portrait of the artist [...] Dominating the painting are those terrifying toes. As a child Kahlo had both polio and spina bifida, which was only diagnosed when she was 23. [...] When Kahlo was 18, her pelvis was smashed in a bus crash and a broken rail pierced her abdomen and uterus. Of the 30-plus subsequent operations she endured, most were on her back, right leg and right foot and the wreckage in the painting is densest over her right leg." – Ruth Padel
Due to floods caused by the russian terrorist attack on the Kakhovka HPP, the house-museum that belonged to ukrainian naive artist Polina Rayko is now underwater. A moment of appreciation for her art, she is one of my favorite naive artists