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“Ashes to Art in Library of Dust.” January 8, 2009. Walt, Vivienne.

“Californian photographer David Maisel has spent years shooting the blighted landscapes around America’s copper mines. No surprise, then, that in 2005 he was immediately intrigued when he read a small news item describing the efforts of the Oregon State Hospital to move the cremated remains of thousands of psychiatric patients who had died between 1913 and 1971. The article hardly suggested an art treasure — except to Maisel, who noticed that the remains were stored in copper canisters, which he guessed had probably turned to dazzling colors over the decades.”

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