Ideas while looking at the Day of the dead

From the day of the dead reserch i have done so far, i have managed to get two ideas really.

One was from looking at the work of Mary Andrade: My idea was to go to a graveyard just before nightful armed with candles and lay them across graves, Maybe with brightly coloured flowers to almost recreate a day of the dead ritual. I think it would look interesting maybe with a close up of the grave followed by a zoomed out so we can see that it is the only grave decorated like that and that maybe the original photo isnt all it seems (mainly that it wasnt actually taken at the festival!)

I also had an idea of using candles to form a coffin shape on the ground and photographing that, inside and maybe outside, even an idea of placing a photo of a person inside or even maybe (i know i know! health and safety!) but surrounding a person in candles in the shape of a coffin.

My final idea involves facepainting and doing a fashion like photoshoot, almost like that of Steve Neaves, but with the face of the model painted like a skull.