TURNING GRANDMA’S ASHES INTO A WORK OF ART

When a loved one passes away, some people scatter the ashes while others store them in urns. Now there a new option for those cremains – turning them into a work of art. Several companies now specialize in mixing the deceased’s ashes in paint, and then using the mixture to create portraits of the deceased. But if canvas doesn’t feel like the right canvas, there’s an alternative. You can also have your loved one’s remains mixed with ink, and then use that to get a tattoo of grandma on your body.

If you’re looking to turn the carbon in your dead relative’s remains into something more practical, there’s a company for that too. Nadine Jarvis, an artist based in London, makes memorial pencils called Carbon Copies. According to Jarvis, the average body yields enough carbon to make 240 pencils, “a lifetime supply for those left behind.” Jarvis stores the pencils in a special box with a sharpener on one side. “Over time,” she says, “the pencil box fills with sharpenings, a new ash, transforming it into an urn.”

TURNING GRANDMA’S ASHES INTO A WORK OF ART

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