But while most of them play in the streets with skeleton dolls and catapults, the children of the cartels have their own toys to play with – not just machine guns, but air-powered narco-cannons too, which are used to fire bundles of weed over the border, ready to be picked up the other side and carted off to bagging factories in the US.
In Fini's case, this meant decorating with theatrical costumes, vintage undergarments, glass hands, birds' skeletons, doll wigs, lots of velvet and an old bronze foot. .
A northern Wisconsin man has been having a ball in his neighborhood by attaching a terrifying skeleton-ghost doll to a drone and flying it above his neighbors' heads.
Choreography by the Nina Kurzeja Dance Theater involved a man with a horse's head, a woman in a skeleton costume and a doll wearing a pink minidress.
The fable begins with Auermann holding a doll and the skeleton sitting.
"A lot of people believe my art is an extension of that," he said, standing before a piece called "Mockmagic". It's a shrine of sorts, made from a dresser and table painted bright red, and laden with beads, bottles, antlers, bones, fur and earth, topped by a big, naked baby doll with a skeleton's skull for a head.
Finally, carry around odd things like skeleton keys, old books, or dolls.
London is an illuminated doll's house and a skeleton puppet.
After passing through a ruined library, you come upon the primal scene, illuminated by spinning and strobing colored lights: a skeleton conversing with an extraordinarily realistic sex doll lounging in a deluxe coffin.
They can look like rag dolls or skeletons, but all manage to carry the rich implications of real character.
