Recreating one’s own family tree is a good exercise in personal growth and with this work Frida takes it to its maximum expression.
She portrays herself three times: as a fertilized egg, unborn, united to her mother by a powerful umbilical cord, and in the center of her as a child. She is a happy girl, free and very close to her land, protected by the Blue House and by her family. The piece exudes love and dignity; love for Mexico, unmistakable in the symbolism of the landscape, without losing sight of the horizon of the sea from which her grandparents immigrated, and love for her family, with a red ribbon that unites them for eternity.
It is a unique self-portrait. She only did a similar work, “my family”, in which her brothers and aunts also appear. It lacks the strength and mastery of “My grandparents, my parents and I”, but it served as a study prior to the main work.