"What the Water Gave Me" is an oil painting completed by Frida Kahlo in 1938. It is sometimes referred to as "What I Saw in the Water". The painting is a symbol of self-discovery and a memoir of Kahlos life, depicting life and death, happiness and sadness, comfort and pain, as well as her past and present. The reflections in the water are her images of life and death, happiness and sadness, comfort and pain, as well as her past and present. The painting is a disturbing world of pain and frustration, a symbol for her life at the time. Kahlo's bath in the painting is not a typical healing, relaxing bath where a person might escape the stressors of everyday life. Instead, it is a fever dream of unpleasant and wretched images.