I could like this if I hadn't already seen hundreds of people do their own version of a Frida Kahlo painting.

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Well I'd love to stay and chat, but you're a total bitch.

ouch. that is rude.
i think this is great, and i actually haven't seen anything like it till now. very bold statement.

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It's absolutely degrading to see how much long hair sometimes attracts attention the way it does. I can either see it as a way of fitting in or a way of jailing someone. (Ok that example might be a bit extreme but physical features have a devestating way of controlling people).

I think you did a great job with this picture and I have to ask, the tangled bunches of hair, do they have a different meaning than the straight strands laid on the floor?

Those clothes look damn comfy. *Thinks about going out and buying a big guy shirt now*

why are you telling me this? im not interested in how many kahlo interpretations you've seen, frankly.

I guess it's my own way of saying: 'try doing something original'.

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Well I'd love to stay and chat, but you're a total bitch.

try commenting on someone elses page

Well at least you didn't abuse me.

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Well I'd love to stay and chat, but you're a total bitch.

when you thought i'd do that, may i ask why you commented then anyway?

wow
it's been a while since I've seen photography this bold and impressive. It does resemble the painting but it's still very unique and refreshing.
amazing work

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I think it shows the raw essence of a person .. every single person dresses in drag both men and women. Women do so because its expected of them and of themselves, Men because they expect it of themselves and in some cases because it is expected of them. The way men shave their face, leaving a mustache, or an under lip chisel of a goatee. Women with their long or short hair and the way they dress. Women with the short skirt, pink glossed lips, long tousled hair and waxed everywhere else. Men with their starched button down oxford collar shirt, bow tie, pin stripe in a certain manner, voice cultured into a certain sneer and superiority. Everybody has a facade and when that is stripped away in what ever manner, what is left?

What is left in this, the hair is gone, so is the make-up, every scrap of 'item' which we as a culture identify as feminine has been stripped from this .. yet she is still a woman if her heart believes that. The inspiration from Friday is an interesting one with all the questions she poses and asks with her art. This is a good modern day interpretation and echo from her work, challenging and inspiring another crowd once again.

Humans are forced to identify with one gender or another by our reproductive systems .. yet .. take that away and what you are left with is a huge sliding scale of gender , would gender exist anymore without our repro systems, our genitalia?

What I find fascinating in this, is in the quest to strip out femininity the masculine has been adopted to mask what once was. The body language has been altered, very strong, wide legged, straight shoulders (if slouched a little) the unexpressive bored face. It’s all a mask and yet an incredible way a revealing of everything in the poses we adopt to show ever day.

But for your question you posed: is it a person reduced to her personality or does she lack personality now because she doesn’t fit into a society which offers humans only two genders to identify with? It is neither and both, we are defined in societies terms by our physical gender, yet the beauty of the human spirit is that it doesn’t define us the person. Our gender is in our minds for those who can see beyond two genders, however its constricted to two genders to those who wish to be bound or are unaware of the way their thoughts have been conditioned.

You my friend are neither bound nor unaware and a free to challenge perceptions and for that .. this is a great piece.

Ps. Love you dressed in your button down oxford shirt, the work trousers and bare feet. Your unfettered thinking and your cry of challenge towards life. You’ll always be beautiful because of that.



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