Miguel Páramo's Room

Miguel Páramo, Fulgor Sedano, Damiana Cisneros, Pedro Páramo

Miguel Páramo
Color palette: shades of orange and purple

He is the only son Pedro acknowledges. A wild teenager and rapist, he dies in a horse accident. His spirit recounts that on a misty night, on his way to visit his latest lover, his horse failed to clear a wall recently erected by his father's orders, and his body crashed against it.

When his corpse is brought back, we can see the stark difference between the luxury and warmth of Miguel's room—strictly furnished according to hacienda conventions, with wool bedspread and rugs woven on colonial looms—and the miserable loft where his half-brother Juan Preciado slept.

The vibrant orange of Miguel's charro suit accentuates his youth and nobility. It consists of a short jacket and vest in tooled leather with silver buttons, and includes chaps made of thick leather to protect the rider's legs. The brim and hatband of his felt hat are adorned with gold braid of French origin, embroidered with bugle beads.

Damiana Cisneros
 Color palette: shades of peach and ocher

This character serves as housekeeper of the hacienda. She was also Miguel's nanny, and Juan's when he was born—before his mother, Dolores, was expelled from Comala by Páramo. Damiana exists between the living and the dead, like almost all the characters, and when she offers to guide Juan to La Media Luna and he asks if she's alive, she vanishes.

Her high-collared cotton blouse with bobbin lace appliqués and her silk and cotton skirt were made from fabric woven on a colonial loom, and her shawl is from Tenancingo, birthplace of the jaspe cotton shawl.

Fulgor Sedano, the foreman, wraps himself in an overcoat flecked with the green of his palette, woven on a loom, to protect against the cold since the body's arrival happens at dawn.

Pedro Páramo displays his fragility and desolation knowing his lineage has been cut short. This death is a turning point in the plot. Pedro, taciturn, admits his guilt to himself, saying: "I'm beginning to pay. Better to start early and finish soon." For this episode we made a dark charro mourning suit in pinstriped wool, with a brown piteado belt, a nod to his palette of browns.