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Awesome Incredible Day of the Dead Skull Choker
These awesome chokers were made with a beads for a variety of sources - mostly from chokers that I buy from Indians who sell them on the streets here in Ojinaga. I take them apart just to get the beads. The skulls are carved from yak bone, by Lamanist monks practicing tantric magic deep in wilds of the Himalaya mountains of Tibet. I use skulls because they figure heavily in Mexican brujeria and curanderismo. The skull actually represents the human soul, which endures after the body is gone, just as the bones endure after the flesh rots away. These are totally original and each one is different from any other. As far as I am concerned, this is “designer” jewelry because I design it, and I am an accomplished and original artist. The only is that I work cheap, but that does not take anything from the quality of my work or my talent. Right?
This is another mad but purposeful rendition of the content of the mind of that self-styled “King of Taco Deco”, Bryant “Eduardo” Holman, of Fausto’s Art Gallery, in Ojinaga, Chihuahua.
Day of Dead art, specifically the use of calaveras as a way of burlesquing persons and institutions which were normally protected by censorship laws is a tradition that goes back very far, with both roots in the European and Indian traditions of Mexico. The Indian roots are mostly with the dual nature deities, whose “death side” was indicated by skeletal figures - 
the most famous survivor of that tradition is “La Santisima Muerte”. The European roots go back to the danse macabre and to the work of Hans Holbien the Younger - of whom the great Mexican illustrator Guadalupe Posada might be said to have carried on his traditions and brought them back to life. Posada was “rediscovered” by Diego Rivera,who promoted Posada in order to attach his own shining star to the calavera artist’s legend. Rivera’s most masterful mural, “Dream on a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park” has a rendition of the Catrina - Posada’s most famous calavera - in the middle of the scene, and even has a portrait of Posada there. Day of the Dead art is becoming more and more popular all the time.
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