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Wall space is the part of a Day of the Dead setup that usually stays bare, since the altar takes the table and the candles take the shelf above it. These two crosses hang higher up. Both carry the same artwork, sugar skulls among flowers and birds in Mexican-inspired patterning, so they can go up as a pair or move to separate rooms.
The artwork on each cross collects the recognizable elements of the holiday: sugar skull faces, flowers in bright blocks of color, birds and Mexican-inspired patterning filling the arms. It reads as folk art rather than as a Halloween prop, which is why it can stay up after the first week of November without looking out of season in a living room.
Both pieces carry the identical print, and that is useful rather than repetitive. Hung either side of a photograph or a doorway they frame it symmetrically, which is hard to manage with two different decorations. Hung in separate rooms they tie a hallway to the living room. Each one measures roughly 11.8 by 8.7 inches, so a pair takes little wall.
A hook is fitted to the back of each cross, so hanging means finding a nail or a wall hook and nothing else. Assembly, a stand to balance and a drill do not come into it. That also makes them easy to take down and move when the altar shifts to a different table, or to pack flat once the celebration has finished for the year.
The crosses are sized for the walls people actually have free: beside an entryway mirror, above a bedroom dresser, over a party table. Paired with papel picado overhead and marigolds on the table they complete a coordinated Day of the Dead display. Out of season the same pieces work as year-round Mexican folk decor rather than going back into a storage bin.
Turkeys, pumpkins and fall leaves on plastic wide enough for the dining table, with a second cover for wherever the children eat.
Printed covers at 52 by 87 inches, two in the pack, that fit a standard eight-foot table and later tape to the wall as a photo backdrop.
