Mike and I went to the Utah Museum of Art a couple of weeks ago. We saw an exhibit about Frida Kahlo.

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I’m bothered because I don’t understand Frida Kahlo. I don’t understand her life. I don’t understand how she was able to live her life. I don’t understand her art. She tried so hard to communicate herself to the world and I still don’t understand her. Mike and I were talking about it.

He said, “It’s absurd to think that you can understand a person’s entire life like you would understand a movie.”

He’s right. Biographies try to tie up the loose ends. Bio-pics go one step further ignoring the loose ends and only covering the points of a person’s life that agree with an interpretation. I have seen an art exhibit, watched a PBS biography, and watched a movie about Frida Kahlo. I have spent a sum total of maybe six or seven hours trying to understand a life of over 400,000 hours.

He’s right, it IS absurd.