Scene of a Day of The Dead celebration on a cemetery in Mexico. It shows the families gathering around the ancestor's tombs decorated with altars of flowers, candles, food, and former belongings. I wanted to show the harmonious coexistence between life and death, light and darkness, and grief and celebration that takes place in this traditional ritual praising cyclical existence itself. I also wanted to exalt the colorful and intricate detail of Mexican Culture.
Because this is a tradition that goes way back before European Colony, I gave it a deeper meaning making the composition based on the geometrical structures and graphic symbolism of the ancient Mexican cultures as shown in Aztec and Mayan codex and temple murals.
