When Your Buyers Impact You

Adriana Ayala didn’t set out to be a Day of the Dead artist, but buyers liked what she did so much with a requested piece that she found herself making more and more fun and decorative skulls like these below. Great little pieces, aren’t they? The only thing was, Adriana, a resident of California but originally from Venezuela (where there is no Day of the Dead tradition), knew very little about the holiday, where it came from, or even what it meant to its observers.

This eventually lead her to do a large exploratory piece about the holiday and its origins. Her exploration and the resulting art pieces are the subjects she covers in the article she wrote for our Muse’s Corner personal experience section of The Polymer Arts magazine. Instead of picking and choosing the aspects of the holiday that were most enjoyable, Adriana represents the whole of the tradition, from its dark sacrificial past to the modern day celebrations of life. You can read about her little adventure and see the interesting piece she created when the next issue comes out at the end of this month.