Transcend the Muertas... Beyond Day of the Dead.

  I have always thought that sugar skulls, the soul mascot and identifying logo to "Day of the Dead" Festival (Dia de los Muertos) have always been lacking a little extra value when it came to artistic construction.  I mean, sure, there are some very artistic and beautiful ones out there, then there are the leagues of "flash tattoo" sugar skulls, but I couldn't find a truly great and unique sugar skull with individual personality.  I wanted to discover one with a bit of a deeper meaning too, something a bit philosophical, if you don't mind humoring me.  Now, when the word philosophical begins to get hurled around like this , I am not trying to be the archetypal "intellectual artist" type, just attempting a simple effort in trying to find an additional related thought through imagery.  Maybe a little more flavor or depth to the "Death" Dia de los Muertos celebrates, is on order.  Don't you think?

 

This is an interesting interpretation of the skull.  There is a lot of individual things going on within the construction.  To name just a few of them, there are trinities, spirals, nautilus, lotus, and a rose that sends a simple message with the tattered word "transcend"  

    This means a few things.  Not just to transcend beyond the idea of what death is or should be to a person, but it means that an artist, if and when they feel the need, should try to transcend the current level of perception when it comes to the particular message that they are trying to send or even that they themselves are trying to understand more.  To transcend the original meanings and purpose of something and give it a new life beyond what it is already serving a purpose for.   This "sugar skull" is a message of different ideas of what I think about death and things that have contributed to the mindset that I have to be able to dissect a concept with such a veritable amount of definition.  

Visual imagery to represent an equation with infinite variable that, for everything, has the same result. 

Or in other words, there is always more than one way to say, do, see, or interpret everything.

For every piece of art on this planet there are as many interpretations of it as there are people to view it. 

Please let me know what images and messages you interpret from the work.  

I would also love to hear about the messages you try (or try not) to send through your own work. 

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