Frida Kahlo’s sketchbooks are more like illustrated diaries; some pages burst with imagery and color, other pages filled with beautiful sprawling text. Kahlo’s book is like seeing someone’s waking dreams alive on the page with expressive collaged imagery and symbols. For someone who was confined to her bed for so long because of her shattered back, we can feel the sketchbook as a form of release for all her ideas, creativity, sorrow and pain.