No One to Mourn
by Kathy McClure
Title
No One to Mourn
Artist
Kathy McClure
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Photograph - Digital Photography, Unenhanced
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Inventory #V2A3189. We visited Chamula, a Mayan town in Chiapas, Mexico, shortly after the Day of the Dead. The practice is to elaborately decorate the graves with flower, food and pine banches. The graveyard is quite large around a very old ruin of a church. In it the graves are closely placed, some with very elaborate markers. The dirt is covered with pine needles to keep weeds from growing and to protect the soil. In the middle of the elaborate remembrances were two graves with no decorations. One had only a small plastic bag as a marker; the other a simple wooden cross with peeling paint. No flowers; no pine branches; no food to honor the dead on the Day of the Dead. They touched my heart. Were they graves of forgotten ancestors? Had their families simply not had the ability to offer them gifts? Or perhaps they had no family at all.
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January 23rd, 2018
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