Catrina with Pineapple

Working in papier mache, Marina Lozano of Mexico creates this delightful catrina statuette. The skeletal sculpture is elegantly dressed, with flowers in her hair and a pineapple in her hand. Lozano designs the figurine after the original 'La Calavera Catrina', a zinc etching created by the artist José Guadalupe Posada in Mexico around 1910. Posada created the character, a female skeleton with an elegant hat, as a satirical portrait of Mexican natives who aspired to European style and denied their own heritage. The catrina has since become an emblem of Mexico's Day of the Dead celebration and a popular folk art subject.