Unveiling Haunting Secrets: Mariana Enriquez’s Graveyard Chronicles That Will Chill Your Soul
Enriquez provides extensive physical descriptions of the cemeteries, accompanied by photographs taken at each location across Europe, the United States, and South America. Particularly fascinating are the details of all the different funerary sculptures that accompany graves, including ones of death embracing the dying, a mother holding the empty clothes of her child, and two giant hands emerging from the ground to grab the statue of a child who was murdered. She painstakingly details how the dead are buried and why they are in that particular cemetery. There’s the New Orleans cemetery, where everyone is buried above ground due to the city’s history of flooding. Additionally, in some cultures, remains are removed and cremated or relocated in the vault to make room for the newly deceased, and there are even a few people buried standing up. Or the unique way people remember their dead children, an unfathomable loss, like in Main Cemetery in Frankfurt, Germany:
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