"Alexandra is a woman of deep personal and artistic integrity...In her personal work, Alexandra investigates her own relationship to the physical universe - whatever that universe might be."-Mary Ellen Mark, mentor on this series. After the sudden passing of my mother I ventured into a remote slaughterhouse in Oaxaca Mexico with the initial compulsion to find a way to translate the mystery of expiration. This quickly evolved into an opportunity for powerful emotional interaction by combining the nude form in a surreal but real reality that faces death. This series reached beyond the journalist essay on meat production and became a look at the idea "There is beauty in death" and at the same time "There is death in beauty"