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Rendition of Frida Kahlo’s 1940 Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair. Kahlo is shown wearing a man’s suit instead of her traditional Tehuana dresses that she usually wore and had cut her long hair very short, appearing to be her rejecting her femininity after her divorce from Rivera. Along the top of the painting there is the song lyrics “Mira que si te quise, fué por el pelo / Ahora que estás pelona, ya no te quiero” from a popular Mexican folk song, which translates to: Look, if I loved you it was because of your hair / Now that you are without hair, I don’t love you anymore. This is a nod to Kahlo feeling like she was only loved for her femininie traits by Rivera and in a show of power decided to cast those aside. I decided to recreate Kahlo’s look and put myself into the painting as I embrace her rejection of traditional femininity.