
If you scroll from top to bottom on this painting, you notice the spacious blue sky at the very top of the painting. As you scroll down the next thing that notice is the rigid landscape and the crackling on the earth's crust that somewhat tells you that this land have no receive any rainfall in a while. The next thing that will pop out at you is a women laying down with branches coming out of her. As you scroll down further, you will notice that the leaves from these branches appear to have roots. The plant is rooted into the earth.
Now, let's look at it from a different view point. Starting from the left, you will notice one leaf above her head and then you emotionless facial expression. She has straight long black hair. One other thing that might catch your eyes is the unibrow in a "V" shape. As you scroll more to the right, you can see that the starting point of all the plants are coming from the heart. Yes, it is her left arm that is up resting on her hip. The further you right you scroll, the more you will notice that her feet is not in the painting and her long flowing yellow dress with white flairs at the end rooting you something similar to you a rock.
This painting by Frida Kahlo named "Roots" is quite interesting. A emotionless woman laying out in the open desert that have not seen any rain in quite sometime. But the blue open sky says, there is light from above. It could be representing the heaven sky. But one of the things that I reacted to is the beginning of the plants. It came from the heart. To me, it says that she is one with the earth and her is blessed by this planet. The more I look at this painting, the stranger it gets.
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