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MEXICAN FOLK ART SHOP
These unique items are imported from Mexico and are thus available in limited quantities only. Supply cannot be guaranteed but alternatives will be suggested where possible.
THE TREE OF LIFE
The Tree of Life represents two people falling in love, starting a family and at the end one of them dies and the other ends up alone. The Tree of Life can also be described as the path to God and the manner in which He created the world.
Lize, HADEDA
"Without duality in all aspects of life, the universe loses its equilibrium. Animal and human forms; masculine and feminine energies - all are needed. Of all these balancing forces, perhaps none is more significant than that of life and death."
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1. Tree of Life, clay, small
PRICE: R295.00 (ZAR) each
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NICHES & THE DAY OF THE DEAD
On the 2nd November, the Souls of the Dead visit the homes where they once lived. They are welcomed through the offerings of their favorite food and personal objects. Generally the day consists of family visits to the graves of their close in kin. The families decorate the graves with flowers, have picnics and music. The also interact socially with other family and community members at the cemetery while remembering the departed by telling stories about them.
Lize, HADEDA
"Art depicting calaveras (skeletons) offers social commentary. Niches offer public mockery of our human weaknesses."
During the family supper (the Bread of the Dead), it is good luck to be the one who bites into the toy skeleton hidden in the bread.
Lize, HADEDA
"Maybe it's the surprising juxtaposition of the dead doing something lively and spirited that brings a chuckle to the most sober face. Perhaps by making death more approachable through friendly images, like a dancing skeleton playing a guitar, Mexicans begin to lose their fear of death at an early age."
Friends and family members give each other gifts of skeletons and skulls, or other items such as niches with a humorous death motif. The Day of the Dead is thus a celebration of the continuity of life in this world and in next.
Lize, HADEDA
"...priests, politicians, farmers and streetsweepers share the same destiny - death, an end neither money nor power can outwit."
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2. John Lennon niche
PRICE: R595.00 (ZAR) each
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3. Time To Get Out of the Closet niche
PRICE: R850.00 (ZAR) each
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4. You Can Never be Too Rich or Too Thin niche
PRICE: R695.00 (ZAR) each
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THE CATRINAS
"The Catrina, an upperclass lady of the turn-of-the-century always depicted in her broad-brimmed hat, has become a classic in Mexican folk art and is displayed prominently in many store windows."
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Posada's Calavera Catrina
Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) popularized Mexico's life of the dead in bitingly satiric, mass-produced etchings and lithographs that have enthralled Mexicans for generations.
Posada's handprinted calaveras, accompanied by witty social commentary in rhyming verse, reached the farthest corners of the Mexican Republic. The idea of the rich and poor alike one day rubbing elbows (if only bone to bone) was attractive to the masses.
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5. Catrina, large, assorted
PRICE: R875.00 (ZAR) each
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6. Catrina, candle holder, assorted
PRICE: R375.00 (ZAR) each
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7. Catrina, small, assorted
PRICE: R220.00 (ZAR) each
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THE AFTERLIFE
"For all of you who like to travel, be assured that in the afterlife you'll get a chance to come back, kick up your heels with loved ones and, like the Calavera Oaxaquena, raise hell. So three cheers to the life of the dead - in Mexican folk art!"
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