DIMEX COLLECTION CLOSE UPS PART 2

Here’s a couple more close-ups on some of the most recent pieces of our collection. Estan buenos los diseños, you tell me? Saludos

Day of The Dead History

I remember when I was little and lived in Mexico we would go to our local cemetery “El Panteon Viejo de Guaymas” and indeed it was very old, you can walk in and feel the chills going down your collar bone but at the same time you would see it as an adventure. There was graves with holes that the recent hurricane had left (that was creepy), crosses in the floor like someone had just knocked them down, Baby angels without heads, jars filled with old flowers barely alive because of the black water in their jars, and grave stones decades even centuries old. I don’t recall going on the Day of the Dead at night but do remember visiting all my ancestors during the day, the cemetery would get so full you had to park very far and start your walk from there, some even preferred to take the bus along with many other “Guaymenses” We would get there arrange a fresh set of flowers that we had just bought from the “Mercado Municipal” and set some items that that one particular family member enjoyed. From there we would stay and talk about them during the day then we would go home. We would visit our ancestors a couple times a month, something we did when our grandma died here back in 2000 but now we only go on holidays. Those childhood memories connected with me again when I returned to Guaymas after a 14 year absence (until I got my residency), I took a trip to the “Panteon” to pay homage to them again, and wished that one day I too would lay next to them.

“The Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico can be traced back to the indigenous Olmec, Zapotec, Mixtec, Mexican or Aztec, Maya, P’urhépecha, and Totonac

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Muerto Shirt Kids

Muerto Shirt for Little Kids will be available this year along with other titles.  Coming Soon.