second of monotypes made from photographs I took of the Mummies of Guanajuato . This was the second of a series of monotypes that were executed between 8/23 and 12/23. using my photos of the mummies as a basis for the images
"The mummies began to be exhumed from a Guanajuato cemetery when a law was enacted locally requiring families to pay a 'burial tax' to ensure the perpetual burial of a loved one. If the tax was not paid, the body was removed. Being naturally mummified, they were stored in a building above ground, and people began paying to see the bodies in the late 1800s. The law requiring the burial tax was abolished in 1958."[1]Mummies of Guanharto.