This outdoor altar, hosted by Capital Real Estate on 1940 Market Street, was dedicaded to Lilia Carrillo, Ángela Peralta y Gertrudis Bocanegra, outstanding Mexican women
Quiping a saying that stereotypes women as incapable of being solidarian and loyal to each other, we dedicated this altar to three who excelled in showing us the way to defying those negative roles. The women: Gertrudis Bocanegra, human rights activist of Colonial Mexico; Angela Peralta, opera singer known as the Mexican nightingale, a young star of La Scala; Lilia Carrillo, abstractionist painter of La Ruptura. We carefully placed alongside flowers, candles, skulls, and alegrías; brushes, paint, books, music sheets, a guitar, a music stand. Those dear objects were there to make our honored women feel at home and to recreate for our daughters and grand daughters the world that let those icons turn things around for themselves and others to come...
What would you like your loved ones to offer you as you come back to life?
Día de los muertos is not a morbid ritual. It is a way to come to terms with life and death. A way to understand ourselves beyond, as we look into how others will remember us...
Our wonderful anfitriones.
