Frida Kahlo’s painting Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States represents her cultural identity by showing where she grew up and wants to be, and where she lives and what that place is like. On one side there is Mexico, which is where she grew up, got into a life changing accident, got married, and sold most of her paintings. After she got into the accident, Frida Kahlo started to paint how she felt, which changed as time went on. She painted about after the accident, after she had her miscarriages, and after her husband's many affairs with other women, including Kahlo's own sister.
In this specific painting, Kahlo has two small figures on the Mexico side of the painting which symbolizes fertility and one that