The streets leading to the town’s main cemetery are crowded with celebrants from mid-day onwards. Graveside festivities continue into the evening hours with a candlelight vigil. Rather than describing the crowds by showing a chaotic mass of people walking down the street, I waited for a group of people to pass into the shadows next to a yellow church and photographed them as abstract silhouettes against that colorful backdrop. I shot numerous images of various people in this setting, until this particular group of people spontaneously arranged themselves within my frame to best express my idea. The man in the large brimmed hat dominates the scene and becomes the focal point, and there is also a range of sizes and genders present – some appearing in defining profile. I see them as the living, on their way to make contact with the dead, yet because of the degree of abstraction, they appear almost as if they were spirits themselves – only shapes, without form or detail. (I liked the electrical wires appearing within the otherwise pristine backdrop – such casual wires are ubiquitous in a Mexican landscape and add local character to the image.)