To Georgia

Inspired by Alfred Stieglitz’s nude photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe, these images imagine O’Keeffe’s descent into a nervous breakdown. The sequence can be read from left to right, like a comic book, or like an alternate reality in which all versions of this person exist at the same time.

Under it, I’ve placed a section of a letter from Frida Kahlo to Georgia O’Keeffe, imploring her to send updates from the hospital. Frida’s voice is the voice of reality, and her neat writing is barely tethered and almost hostile to the depictions of mental illness. The correspondence and relationship between Kahlo and O’Keeffe is the story of all women: caring for one another, losing their minds, and awakening their creative geniuses at the same time.