Duo Totem is directly inspired by Frida Kahlo's Dos Fridas painting and is nearly the same size as Frida's original which was quite large compared to her easel painting. However, this painting is joyous and celebrates the loving relationship where a single heart and lungs create a sustained whole person rather thanks depicting a broke heart, as Frida's painting does. This double portrait of the artist and her wife place the two in the limbs of a live oak tree in New Orleans, where they once operated their own art gallery. They are surrounded by lush foliage and hallucinogenic tropical angel trumpet flowers. They hold a tiny portrait of their beloved dog, Claribel, rather than a mini-Diego portrait and a sewing kit to make any relationship repairs they need. Lastly, even the red artery that connects the two is in the shape of the Mississippi river as it crosses through the city or New Orleans...also known as the Crescent City...due to the crescent shape of the river. The painting is bursting with symbolism that makes this portrait extremely intimate while the life-size scale helps make the portrait universal and relatable.