First of all it seems that every household and business creates an alter of memories that contains references, things of the deceased and food that they may have liked. The following is a picture of the alter that they created at the Spanish School.
Unfortunately I cannot rotate this picture. You will have to tilt your head. Sorry, I'll be more careful in the future to keep my pictures straight.
In the central square in the centre of the city they set aside 6 or 7 areas that are at least 20x20 feet square for the creation of 3 dimension sand pictures.
Colour is very important in the displays. First the artists create the 3 dimensional figures. Then, using coloured powers they add the colour to the figures. The application of colour is usually done by putting the power into a small wire kitchen strainer and sifting the power over the image.
As you can see the images are striking and very large.
Saturday evening, 31 October 2009 we went down to the centre square (Zocolo) to see the finished products. It seems that every one in the city was there. The sand pictures were spectacular. There was strolling, music and happy people. It was a great experience.
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Wow! Those are really huge! How long do they take to work on them? Just the day?
I really like the skeleton one - very cool. Do the children trick or treat? Are there festivities like here for Halloween - or is it strickly a religious ceremony?
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A & A
Thankyou for the cool pictures, it seem like quite the ceremony. The sketlons are cool. It sounds like alot of work goes it to their ceremony. So did you last until 5Am. that night. I went to help Pierre with holloween, i gave ou the candy while he took Audrey out. Alot of kids he had no more candy but the end of the night. It took about 90 minutes and there was no more candy and they just kept coming. love Mom. xxxxxxxxxxxxoooooooooo
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