My work centers around documenting life and details leading up to, during, and after Dia De Los Muertos in Mexico through photography. For the past two year, I have made sequential trips to Mexico to photograph the tradition that is very dear to my heart. Being Mexican-American born in Sonoma County, I felt an instinct to migrate back to Mexico like the monarch butterflies; a feeling almost guided by my ancestors spirits.
I migrate back for the necessity of completing a spiritual life cycle, like my parents migrated to the North for necessity of our family’s safety and well being. I am planning to photograph different cities and towns in Mexico to document Dia de los Muertos traditions and to show there is more than just sugar skulls and catrinas. I feel this is important as newer generations succumb to commercialization by being influenced by popular culture of our traditions like Disney’s movie Coco as our traditions evolve and change over time.