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In 2009, Mary Andrade, author and expert on Dia De Los Muertos in Mexico, speaks about the holiday, especially the cultural practice of bread-making.
Photo Credit: Harold Dorwin
¡VAMOS! Día de Muertos / Day of the Dead at The Boiler Shop
November 1st 2014
¡VAMOS!’s first ever winter escapade!
Photos by John Paul Gleason
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Featuring
- Live Mexican Wrestling (plus separate children's Mexican Wrestling classes)
- 'Día de Muertos' group shrine
- Kids Luchador Cinema Pod
- Pica Pica! plus other Latino Street Food stalls
- LocoHero# and Mexican creative craft workshops
- Live mariachi band, Belly Dancing and live electonic sets
Gracias to everyone who came, performed, contributed to our altar, worked, advised, lent and presented their wares! x
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here's another shot from that make up shoot. edited a tad bit differently. im really stoked on they all came out.
AB800 through stock tin from above camera right. edited with lightroom and ps.
See my photostream for more Day of the Dead. I put many Dia De Los Muertos pieces out in October and early November -- but I don't actually mix them with my vintage Halloween because in old Mexico that's considered a cultural infraction of sorts. But she is so beautiful with her salt glaze colouring, tiny baby on her back, long braids and somber expression.
re-editing stuff
Day of the Dead (2001-2009) @ Casa de Lafões, Lisboa
couldn't ask for a better easter show
Shining skulls decorate a Day of the Dead offering at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC
I think he was too out of it to be a follower of Santa Muerte. Friendly. There was a lot of weed around.: followers blow smoke over their figurines as an act of devotion.
Day of the Dead, San Miguel de Allende, MX. Families of the deceased spent time decorating, freshening and cleaning the gravesites of their loved ones. It is a religious day of joyous remembrance, not of sadness for the families. This man refreshes a grave inscription in the municipal cemetery in the morning.
This elder appears to be lost in thought as she proceeds down the sidewalk past a vendor's cart on the Day of the Dead.
I love it that she was wearing full traditional regalia. I didn't see any of the younger women dressed like her. I would be curious whether this is her daily attire, or whether she donned it especially for the day of the dead.
Notice the necklace she's wearing, which is made of several strands of large red beads? I was able to purchase one just like it at the antique shop on the plaza at Otavalo. The younger women have abandoned the large red beads in favor of necklaces composed of many strands of brass- or gold-colored beads.
I believe the beads are from the former Czechoslovakia. In bead collecting circles, they are sometimes referred to as "Bohemian" beads to transcend the many geopolitical changes that have taken place in the part of the world where the beads originate,
wooden box carved with skulls
upcycled black leather journal with brass cross attached through brass eyelets with brass chain
closure of a different black leather sewn to front with black Irish waxed linen thread & a brass skull
handsewn in longstitch & kettlestitch with black Irish waxed linen thread
papers are acid free natura text 104gsm hand stained with an archival tea mix & recycled kraft 80gsm, edges have been treated to look aged
image hand stamped on first page with black archival ink
pages - 120 (240 both sides)
journal - 7.5cm X 7.5cm X 3.6cm spine
box - 10cm X 10cm X 6.5cm height
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