Dia de los Muertos
(Day of the Dead) became my favorite holiday when I lived in Mexico over
20 years ago. The sugar skulls, the coconut pastries, the plethora of marigolds
everywhere, the music and the pure JOY of two days of graveside picnics
and celebratory navigation of the streets filled with little scenes of
skeletons in their daily activities—all of this happiness for being alive
comes back to me in these paintings.
The skeleton
informs my figure work about the structure of the body and about the various
whites of bones.
~Viola Moriarty
(For an online gallery of complete works for this series, please click on the link to the left.)
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