Along the way, Miguel comes across
gaggles of giggling skeletons, a beautiful but intimidating alebrije (animal guide), and iconic Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (Natalia Cordova - Buckley), dead but still creating very personal and deeply dark art.
Embedded in the knowingness
of the piece is the notion that we've irrevocably lost something in our post-modern self - awareness: that smug satisfaction allows
gaggles of freshmen appreciation classes to
giggle at the rear - projection and mattes in Vertigo while losing sight
of the fact that the artifice is the message.