The character of La Calavera Catrina has always been tied to Frida Kahlo in a subtle, yet strong, way. The character was created by Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada and was inspired by the calaveras, the sugar skulls of the Dia de los Muertos festivity. But it was Diego Rivera (Mexican artist and Frida Kahlo's husband) who made La Catrina famous, painting her in his murale Sueño de una Tarde Dominical en la Alameda Central. In the painting, La Calavera Catrina stands between an adult Diego Rivera and the child version of himself. Right behind La Catrina and the child there's Frida, holding a Taijitu symbol. I always thought of her in the murale as some kind of link that ties everything together, even birth to death. So, in this portrait, I decided to represent La Catrina in the same pose and the same traditional hairstyle of the famous 1939 photograph by Nikolas Muray "Frida on Bench".