Date Posted: May 4, 2025

As I traveled through Mexico, I became deeply interested in how often I encountered themes of death and grief within Mexican art. I visited Frida Kahlo’s historic Casa Azul and discovered that in her still life paintings, she hinted at deeper themes of death and pain. I toured the Casa Estudio Luis Barragán and noted how the famed architect worked symbolic reminders of mortality into the building itself. Reminders of mortality presented themselves in every museum and artistic space I entered.