Dramatic, visceral mixed-media artwork. oil painting, violently slashed stroke of thick impasto paint against the photography and the raw white canvas, The canvas is furiously stained with turpentine and violently splattered with thick, visceral oil paint, several orange slashes across the photography edges and the white paint and the canvas, several black slashes across the photography edges and the white paint and the canvas. Messy, chaotic, aggressive brushwork, high physical texture. A photograph is collaged onto a painted canvas. The portion of the photo featuring the flowers crown has been precisely and neatly cut out. The photograph is visible until the bottom extremity of the frame. The area corresponding to the dress in the bottom part of the photography is worked over with brushstrokes of black paint, which cause the black of the dress to merge with the black paint on the canvas. The sections corresponding to the blue background on the left and the right are similarly subjected to forceful brushstrokes of white paint, creating a visual connection with the white background of the canvas. The photograph depicts a three quarter view of a portrait of a woman dressed as La Catrina for Día de los Muertos, collaged on a rough white gesso surface and violently attacked by thick impasto paint. The photo shows her face sharp and photorealistic, white sugar skull makeup with deep orange accents, black circles around the eyes, a black nose. ornate floral crown with orange roses and marigolds, with a sheer black tulle veil falling behind her head. Blue dusk visible on both sides behind veil. She looks straight at the viewer with her beautiful proud eyes, lips closed relaxed . She wears a black dress with semi transparent high neck line, Black chocker. Blue hour dusk, soft cool light. warm glow from a few lit candles in the blurred background.