Dusty Paik Performing at Shadowdance 2013

I drew a skull faced Virgin Mary on scraps of paper for a long time, and put those little drawings on my altars with flowers and fruit, incense and candles. I painted murals of her on the walls of my apartment. When I found out that there was indeed, a banned Roman Catholic saint called “La Santisima Muerte“ resembling her, I was a little bit relieved that I hadn’t made her up. Also known as Mictecacihuatl, Most Holy Death is prayed to by a huge cross section of people, most notably in Mexico (where she i