BY NIGEL IP

Written by Nigel Ip During the last ten years of Frida Kahlo’s life, the Mexican painter kept an illustrated diary, filling it with evocations of her deepest emotions, struggles, and creative thoughts. Confined to her bed in the Casa Azul because of a failed spinal surgery, she wrote in her diary: ‘I am not sick. I am broken. But, I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.’ More than 50 years later, Kahlo’s optimistically vulnerable spirit continues to resonate with wome