Soul of an Old Man was created from photographs taken of the Mummies of Guanajuato. This was the first of a series of monotypes executed between 8/23 and 12/23.
"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."