© Ramón José López

A bulto of San Ysidro Labrador, patron saint of farmers, is traditionally taken into the fields on May 15, his feast day, to bless the fields and acequias for a good harvest. López recalled this tradition from his childhood in the neighborhood around Cristo Rey church, and helped to revive the annual San Ysidro procession that his grandfather, Lorenzo López, had initiated in the 1930s. A bulto by López very similar to this one, with its andas—or carrying platform—has been carried in procession once a year since 1990.