Attached to this traditional weaving is an applique showing a jovial Calavera, a decorated Día de Muertos skull. She is surrounded by an infinity of colorful flowers that demarcate the threshold between life and death. She is free to move between these worlds as easily as the birds whose feathers adorn her. The feathers are gathered from birds flying around Portland.
Attached to this traditional weaving is an applique showing La Catrina, the elegant symbolic woman from the Día de Muertos tradition. The weaving portrays the tumultuous and polluted oceans and rivers that surround us. Her hair is braided from strands of the woven water. Her skirt is also dissolving into the river and ocean as she becomes part of the surrounding
