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ARTBEAT LOREM MAGAZINE 6 Floral Skull, by Amy Lee. AIC Private Collection. Carved Polystyrene and Artificial Flowers, 80x105 x75 cm, February 2016 “Touch my flowers and I will curse you to forever look like a chihuahua licking vomit from a cactus…”
ARTBEAT MAGAZINE 7 Continued from Page 5 : How Dia de los Muertos Came to AIC Dia de los Muertos - The Day of the Dead, is a lively Mexican holiday which honors the dead and is celebrated throughout Mexico on 1 November. It features in other Latin American countries too but it is particularly relevant to Mexico. The Day of the Dead Festival mixes Aztec ritual with Catholicism, brought to the region by Spanish conquistadores. (Dia de los Muertos is celebrated on All Saints Day and All Souls Day, minor holidays in the Catholic calendar.) What we know of as “Halloween” (celebrated the night of 31st October) is an equivalent festival, now observed worldwide but originally important in North America and throughout Europe. Halloween has a similar link to ancient pagan rituals and beliefs with the attempt for it to be also “Christianised" by a church holiday: All Hallows Eve. The Dia de los Muertos celebration features in the memorable opening scenes of the 2015 James Bond film: “Spectre”. These scenes depict street parties and parades in Mexico City with people dressed as skeletons, and wearing elaborate, highly decorated colorful costumes, face paints, masks and flowers. There is a carnival atmosphere with live music and processions and it is hard to imagine that this event has anything to do with death. Assured that the dead would be insulted by mourning or sadness, Dia de los Muertos celebrates the lives of the deceased with food, drink, parties, and activities the dead enjoyed in life. Dia de los Muertos recognizes death as a natural part of the human experience, a continuum with birth, childhood, and growing up to become a contributing member of the community. On Dia de los Muertos, the dead are also a part of the community, awakened from their eternal sleep to share celebrations. People go to the gravesides of their passed loved ones to enjoy a family picnic with homemade treats and chat by candlelight at night time. The most familiar symbol of Dia de los Muertos may be the calacas and calaveras (skeletons and skulls), which appear everywhere during the holiday: in candied sweets, as parade masks, as dolls. Calacas and calaveras are almost always portrayed as enjoying life, often in fancy clothes and entertaining Can you hear the Floral Skull cursing? Some say that they can! (especially as we draw closer to Dia de los Muertos). If you can hear it, then send us what you have heard the skull saying. The best entries will be published in future issues of Artbeat. For goodness sake, whatever you do, do not touch its flowers! E-mail your entries, labelled : Toucha Ma Flowers I Smasha Ya Face to : jlowe@aicib.org
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