Henry Ford Hospital
Oil On Canvas
1932 12 " x 15"
Collection Delores Olmedo Foundation, Mexico City

      Frida was with Diego in Detroit where he was working on a mural when on the fourth of July she had to rushed to Henry Ford Hospital for severe hemorrhaging.It is unclear whether she lost a baby at that time, but the event in a strange city away from Mexico was traumatic. She later painted this painting as a memory of being in the hospital. She lies in a hospital bed holding onto red lines, blood vessels connected to various symbols of parts of herself. There is a pelvis, an embryo, a broken spine, a flower, a snail, and a machine, all personal symbols floating around her in a surreal, flat green landscape. Frida is bleeding on the bed and she holds onto the cord to these parts as if to hold herself together.

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