The finding that wheat bread occupies a central place on the Day of the Dead, despite the sacred character of corn in many indigenous communities, resonates with the European tradition of depositing loaves in coffins until the 19th century, and with ancient rituals in which breads were made for the dead even before the development of agriculture. These resonances allow the artist to place bread between the creation of community —evoked in the Latin word companio, "they who share bread"— and his own fragility and vulnerability to decay.

Performers dressed in the costumes and masks of the art installation activate a public ritual in which bread offerings are made to the public and to non-human species of Earth.