Henry Ford Hospital

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Dimensions: 30,5 x 38 сm.
Location: The Dolores Olmedo Collection, Mexico City (Mexico).

In many of Kahlo’s paintings of this period, there are ex-voto figures of religious animals, a vast collection of which the spouses had. A woman on a hospital bed is tied to symbolic things like with an umbilical cord; those things are a snail (the passage of time), an orchid (conjugal love), etc. The plot is autobiographical: each time the artist lost her child due to injuries she suffered in her youth. She seemed to doubt the justice of God, who sent her new pains and suffering. The artist demonstrated that she was attached to everything that surrounded her: secular and metaphorical, physical and factual. Perhaps this helps some women become mothers when it is impossible for them to have a baby.