Visual Art The Flesh Becomes Word
posted by March 30 at 10:59 AM
onProduct designer Nadine Jarvis takes “in remembrance” to a new level altogether:
Carbon Copies
Pencils made from the carbon of human cremains. 240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash—a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind.
This is only one part of her project on post mortem traditions. See also her bird feeder and her precariously brilliant Rest in Peaces urn.
Death, where is thy sting now?
Comments
Wow.
My grandmother, who died last year, worked as an accountant all her life. She had a house full of pencils, and would have appreciated this tribute very much. If only I had known...
I was supporting her idea until she insisted on using the word 'creamains.'
It's somehow fitting that the pencils don't have erasers.
"Cremains" is the industry-standard term. You might as well complain about "waste stream" for "garbage."
I like this idea. My mother was a school teacher all her life, and still has one of those classic screwed-to-the-desk hand-crank sharpeners she uses regularly. She's planning on being "burned up" anyway, so I'll have to ask her if this appeals to her: she can have them given out to all her friends and relatives.
Personally, I want to be a reef.
Yikes. I'm a lifelong pencil-chewer. Not for me, I think.
I've thought about being cremated and have my ashes turned into Christmas Ornaments or beer glasses.
-- both links go to the bird feeder... where's the urn?
The link to the RIP urn has been corrected. Thanks, Edge.
I'm a firm atheist, and I don't much care what my partner or relatives do with my corpse when I'm dead. But all of these ideas creep me out a little bit.
I do, however, like the idea of the reef suggested by Joe @4. That sounds kinda cool, and actually helps the environment to boot.
Wow, talk about beating swords into plowshares.... or, uh, sharecroppers into mightier-than-swords... or, uh, something like that.
Wow, if there's anything left of me after I donate my remains to medical science, having it turned into pencil lead sounds like a great idea.
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