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Craft paints on a garage-sale wooden frame, with motifs freely adapted from Mexican folk art. Skulls (calaveras) in Mexican decorations are not meant to be grisly or frightening, but cute and humorous. Laugh in the face of mortality, they say -- it's better than crying!

This is a commission for a fictional character, something he would have had made for him by an artist from home. I imagine Luke Donagan's house is full of this sort of thing: a traditional form, but with elements that make it uniquely his. Like the death's head portrait of him tucked underneath the little projecting shelf, right where it can startle anyone who stoops down for a closer look...
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