As I have been experimenting with tin bottle tops, and thinking about pilgrimage badges and folk art etc, my research lead me to look at Frida Kalo, she was someone who began to experiment with androgyny and cross dressing, in the above photo is a young Frida is dressed in a mans suit.
And later in the above self portrait , she has cropped hair and dressed in a mans suit surrounded by locks of her hair, it is thought that it was a act of mourning after the separation to the artist Diego Rivera. It was also thought that her wearing the suit was to take on his identity as an Artist.
