1. In Erick Huerta's Grand Park article, it is mentioned that "[Ofelia's] mother never went into detail to explain why she placed certain items or did things a certain way because her practice of the tradition was rooted in an indigenous tradition." What is the importance of the tradition being passed down implicitly? How might each family and each person's interpretation heighten the overall meaning and message of each altar?
2. In the NEA National Heritage Tribute Video of Ofelia Esparza, she mentions the three deaths that each person goes through, with the first death being the physical death, the second when one is buried and the last when one is forgotten (2:42) . How does each of these play into the practice of atar-making? How does it relate to the purpose?
3. In Jennifer Gonzalez's "Rhetoric of the Object: Material Memory and the Artwork of Amalia Mesa-Bains", she mentions that it is the ambivalence of altars that "[forms] an argument of persuasion - a material rhetoric." What is the ambivalence that she is referring to? How does the ambivalence form rhetoric?
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