Day of the Dead Altar
Centro Cultural de la Raza
Balboa Park, San Diego, California
Remembering and Honoring our brothers , sisters and others who died because of US border policy:
The 53 who’s lives were taken in San Antonio,Texas gold ribbons measuring the length of their lives
Youth and Young Children who died in custody of the border patrol and homeland security
Those who died , often alone, in our borderlands
Indigenous Children kidnapped and murdered in residential schools, represented here by the dolls they could have played with in their homes
Indigenous Women and Relatives; missing, murdered and ignored by police and the media represented here by empty red dresses
Portraits of the School Children of Uvalde and their Teachers with empty chairs they would have been using in school
Honoring the young Women and leading the revolution in Iran; the Young Women and Men dying for Freedom and Life itself.