Ashes To Art (Hi, Uncle Charlie)

Miss that special someone? Now you can keep them around, even after they’re dead. A Seattle artist is “making urns from human ashes, following a formula Josiah Spode invented in 1797, producing fine English china glaze by adding calcinated cow bone to the company’s clay mixture. Friends and relatives of various deceased gave him the ashes he’s using in his human urn sculptures. Each comes in an edition of two, one piece for the commissioning parties and one for him.”