A collection of 25 canisters, holding the cremated remains of patients from an American psychiatric

A collection of 25 canisters, holding the cremated remains of patients from an American psychiatric hospital.

David Maisel


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Library of Dust

these canisters hold the cremated remains of patients from an American psychiatric hospital. Oddly reminiscent of bullet casings, the canisters are literal gravesites. Reacting with their ash inhabitants, the canisters are now blooming with secondary minerals, articulating new metallic landscapes.”