With the events of COVID-19 and the lockdowns issued across the nation, the pre-planned exhibition for the 2020 Senior Exhibition has been moved online.

This website poses as the digital Senior Exhibition requirement for the Our Lady of the Lake University Visual Arts Department.

The Hotel Bella Muerte is a series of works done to illustrate the story of a ragtag group of hotel occupants that desperately want to escape and get back to their lives. Little do they know that they’re dead and waiting in the afterlife for their souls to be judged and move on. In this world, there are three hotels for souls to be sorted out. One for natural death. One for death inflicted on them by others. Finally, there is a hotel for those who go through with suicide. This group of individuals belonging to the suicide hotel and this is their story.

In order to pull this off and portray each character in different ways, a wide variety of methods was used. Ceramics were used to create the dishware that would be seen in the everyday settings of the hotel during a meal. It is something tangible to place the viewer in the world of the hotel.

Playing with digital media as well as traditional the idea was to become fully immersive in these characters' lives to tell their story and bring awareness to the discussion of suicide. So many individuals are ready to push off suicide as something evil and shameful, but they never consider the circumstances surrounding the individual and their decision to go through with the act. The purpose of this story is to tell people that there is a lot more going on in any one person's life and mind than what you see on the outside.