Hair Cutting Dream and Ritual as Example: Frida Kahlo

I had a dream that I cut my hair off 2 nights ago. In the world of Jodorowsky and psychomagic (among many about dreams including my own dream journal I have kept for over a decade) dreams are your unconscious/subconscious talking to you. Hair is a very 'feminine' identity embodiment and evidently something I use a lot in my work as an extension of my ideas, as a prop, as an extra limb. I thought of this image by Frida Kahlo, who I feel was very much a performance artist in her work- in which she contextualised herself politically and reflected the world around her through herself, through documenting herself. Particularly as a woman - who are usually the 'subject' of art works, the muse, she is the author, representing herself. She challenged so many ideas about women, about cultural inferiority, sexuality, gender, politics, love, spirituality from a unique Mexican woman perspective. This painting is like one of the 'actions' I see myself embodying... Hair cutting could easily be an act of expressing something about the sacred feminine erotic body, hair is very sensuous and sexual. It is also grotesque. Abject. I have been thinking a bit about gender essentialism and roles lately. 

Playing with hair identity- hair is very sensual and part of a women's erotic body. wig for the evening.