These are the photos from a trip to the Oakland Museum, on December 2nd. I wanted to see an exhibit I helped my brother in law write a paper on, called Vivo: The Day of the Dead. The installments intrigued me before I saw them, I read about the glass children who were created to remember the casualties in Juarez, Mexico, of a femicide that has been plaguing the city and leaving children motherless. I read about a ten by ten by ten pyramid in old Aztec style with each side colored and painted to represent a different one of the four sacred directions. About halfway through correcting the paper I knew I had to go see the exhibit myself.
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| Happy Daddy and baby!!! |
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| The podium-esque box in front of the no-touch zone is filled with letters to dead loved ones. I wrote one too. |
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| Three figures of girl-children made of shards of glass and illuminated from within. |
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| The artist spoke of the orphans as being as fragile as glass, but as hostile as the broken shards they were made of. |
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| I believe this exhibit represents the healing after losing someone, the flowers grow over the skeletons; the good memories over the pain of separation. |
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| Shrine to the memory of the wildlife lost to the Gulf oil spill. |
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| Myra was so excited to see all the art with Ammi!! |
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| Interactive installment with notes to loved ones on it. One reads, in a child's handwriting, "I really miss you, mom". |
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| Dolls decorated by under-privileged children in memory of someone why touched their lives. |
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| Dead doll. Shadows cast by dolls above standing on a glass surface, looking down at their fallen friend. |
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| Aztec pyramid, the white side is Plexiglas, showing traditional medicines in baskets in the center of the pyramid. |
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| That's where daddy came from! |
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| Welcome, Daddy and Ammi!! |
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| Beautiful mural at the exhibit entrance. |
We had a great time, and Myra took her first trip to the museum. Definitely not her last!!!!
