Icons in Ash, Consultation Hour for Professionals

Icons in Ash founder Heide Hatry creates portraits out of the cremated remains of their subjects, thematizing and transforming the notion of likeness while hearkening back to what Hans Belting contends is the aboriginal purpose of portraiture: to keep the dead among us in charged ceremonial artifacts.

The experience of families of her subjects strongly suggests an uncanny and consolatory effect that is best understood in terms of a sense of the continuing presence of their dead, the demise of which experience underlies our modern “culture of mourning.”

Hatry offers an opportunity for funeral industry professionals to ask her any questions they may have about her project in a discreet online forum.

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