Daniela Perez de la Cruz

Dualidad en la Ofrenda (Duality in the Altar)

Mixed Media

2024

Wooden boards, wooden tables, cotton sheets, LED candles, candles, faux marigolds, plates and glasses, glass soda bottles, photo paper, photo frames, plastic papel picado (pecked paper), copal, ceramic skulls, sugar skulls, Mexican candy, empty vodka bottle, faux flowers, other mementos, etc.

7'10 x 8'4 x 5'5

100 McCaul St Toronto, Ontario , Canada

I have created a Day of the Dead altar that represents through writing and photography the experience of having two homes and how these come together as one. The altar also reflects on the topic of how to honour and respect something you love while still acknowledging its flaws. Link to zine pdf: file:///C:/Users/dplc1/Downloads/Dualidad%20en%20la%20ofrenda%20(Duality%20in%20the%20altar)%20-%20zine.pdf

“Through the essential elements of an ofrenda, photographs and writing, as well as mementos from both my lives in Mexico and Canada, I demonstrate essential aspects of my experience of having two homes. An altar can have many levels, but mine is made of three: my life in Mexico at the bottom given than it has been the longest part of my life, my life in Canada at the top given that there is room for more in the future, and the level in the middle that represents how these two lives merge.”