a dancing skeleton
2nd November 2022 sees the celebration of El Día de los Muertos which originated in Mexico.
This festival, in its embrace of death, celebrates life: skeletons dance and sing; flowers, fruit and candy decorate altars; the morbid side of death is lost under music and remembrances.
This papier mâché skeleton was made in Mexico City by the Linares family in 1992 for the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art in Glasgow.
We saw the skeleton in the museum on a visit to Clare in 2010 and I'm very glad I had already got into the habit of photographing information panels as I should never have remembered everything for 10+ years!
I liked the colourful life-forms bursting out from the skeleton.
a dancing skeleton
2nd November 2022 sees the celebration of El Día de los Muertos which originated in Mexico.
This festival, in its embrace of death, celebrates life: skeletons dance and sing; flowers, fruit and candy decorate altars; the morbid side of death is lost under music and remembrances.
This papier mâché skeleton was made in Mexico City by the Linares family in 1992 for the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art in Glasgow.
We saw the skeleton in the museum on a visit to Clare in 2010 and I'm very glad I had already got into the habit of photographing information panels as I should never have remembered everything for 10+ years!
I liked the colourful life-forms bursting out from the skeleton.