So this is a late post.
I want to eventually do more videos featuring how awesome my friends are.
Problem: They are all just too darn busy lol
The night I hung out with Katrina after #AsiaSociety's #NightMarket,
we got back to her place
and she resumed crafting.
NOW I am all about that DIY life
and I learned stuff by watching,
but the coolest tidbit I learned that evening is that, "I'm in an art show."
Katrina's first.
So I went with her to the closing of her show
(with very little help from google navi lol)
Katrina and I have a great first meeting story
but that will come for another post/video.
She is an Art History major.
I have learned finding any kind of curating gig is quite hard, since there are so few positions and too many people trying to find said positions.
Great thing about an Art History major?
She can tell you about #AllTheThings.
BC she will try to find as much info on the bg/history.
Dia De Los Muertos is similar to our All Saints Day/Day of the Dead
Filipinos usually celebrate by cleaning graves of loved ones.
We usually don't have altars. We have food too, but Dia De Los Muertos is more festive than somber.
My Vietnamese friends usually have family altars, but it is generally a year round thing.
The Affrenda/Ofrenda is the altar.
It has pictures of loved ones, fur babies are included btw, and all the colors and tiers have meaning.
marigolds/orange flowers: the scent represents the soul is back
purple flowers: Jesus's body/blood
monarch butterflies: a soul coming back to visit
sugar skulls: brought over by the Italians who taught the Spanish to make animals out of sugar
aka Calavera or Calavera de Azucar or Caldarita(s)
(http://www.mexicansugarskull.com/support/dodhistory.html)
Want to make some for yourself?
here's a link!
http://www.mexicansugarskull.com/sugar_skulls/instructions.html
(It is suggested to avoid making them on a high humidity day or rainy day...
...so when do people in Houston make sugar skulls? XD)
the middle tier represents earth
bottom tier is the underworld
top tier is heaven
elements are represented, earth, wind, water, fire
fire: candles
earth: food
wind: papel picado (the colorful cut paper banners)
water: I think on this particular altar it was the soda-- the bottom tier was set on a row of soda cases.
Maybe it doubled as an offering for child souls?
She said the first day is when child souls come back
and the second day is adult souls
This year Dia De Los Muertos started Monday, October 31, (Halloween)
and ended Wednesday, November 2.
Want to learn more?
Click below!
Trina's Socials:
pinterest: www.pinterest.com/katsioh/boards/
instagram: www.instagram.com/katsi.oh/
BGM on loop:
Song: Heuse & Zeus x Crona - Pill (feat. Emma Sameth) [NCS Release]
Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds: https://youtu.be/CLiXUT3MS34
Download: http://ncs.lnk.to/Pill
Artists: Heuse & Zeus x Crona & Emma Sameth
listen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLiXUT3MS34
Watch footage from here show!
click below
Sub to my channel
and Follow Katrina on all her socials!
I want to eventually do more videos featuring how awesome my friends are.
Problem: They are all just too darn busy lol
The night I hung out with Katrina after #AsiaSociety's #NightMarket,
we got back to her place
and she resumed crafting.
NOW I am all about that DIY life
and I learned stuff by watching,
but the coolest tidbit I learned that evening is that, "I'm in an art show."
Katrina's first.
So I went with her to the closing of her show
(with very little help from google navi lol)
Katrina and I have a great first meeting story
but that will come for another post/video.
She is an Art History major.
I have learned finding any kind of curating gig is quite hard, since there are so few positions and too many people trying to find said positions.
Great thing about an Art History major?
She can tell you about #AllTheThings.
BC she will try to find as much info on the bg/history.
Dia De Los Muertos is similar to our All Saints Day/Day of the Dead
Filipinos usually celebrate by cleaning graves of loved ones.
We usually don't have altars. We have food too, but Dia De Los Muertos is more festive than somber.
My Vietnamese friends usually have family altars, but it is generally a year round thing.
The Affrenda/Ofrenda is the altar.
It has pictures of loved ones, fur babies are included btw, and all the colors and tiers have meaning.
marigolds/orange flowers: the scent represents the soul is back
purple flowers: Jesus's body/blood
monarch butterflies: a soul coming back to visit
sugar skulls: brought over by the Italians who taught the Spanish to make animals out of sugar
aka Calavera or Calavera de Azucar or Caldarita(s)
(http://www.mexicansugarskull.com/support/dodhistory.html)
Want to make some for yourself?
here's a link!
http://www.mexicansugarskull.com/sugar_skulls/instructions.html
(It is suggested to avoid making them on a high humidity day or rainy day...
...so when do people in Houston make sugar skulls? XD)
the middle tier represents earth
bottom tier is the underworld
top tier is heaven
elements are represented, earth, wind, water, fire
fire: candles
earth: food
wind: papel picado (the colorful cut paper banners)
water: I think on this particular altar it was the soda-- the bottom tier was set on a row of soda cases.
Maybe it doubled as an offering for child souls?
She said the first day is when child souls come back
and the second day is adult souls
This year Dia De Los Muertos started Monday, October 31, (Halloween)
and ended Wednesday, November 2.
Want to learn more?
Click below!
Trina's Socials:
pinterest: www.pinterest.com/katsioh/boards/
instagram: www.instagram.com/katsi.oh/
BGM on loop:
Song: Heuse & Zeus x Crona - Pill (feat. Emma Sameth) [NCS Release]
Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds: https://youtu.be/CLiXUT3MS34
Download: http://ncs.lnk.to/Pill
Artists: Heuse & Zeus x Crona & Emma Sameth
listen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLiXUT3MS34
Watch footage from here show!
click below
Sub to my channel
and Follow Katrina on all her socials!