Icons in Ash: Human Portraits
Hatry, Heide![Icons in Ash: Human Portraits](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/215/21589356/CHSBZCOP0321589356.jpg)
Literary Nonfiction. Art. The art of the human image arose millennia ago as a way beyond impermanence and, especially, to keep the dead among us. The pictorial object "the icon" often carried a charge as ritual or ceremonial artifact and, indeed, as a thing with a certain power. The artist Heide Hatry has extended this tradition by creating realistic portraits made out of the actual ashes of the departed person portrayed. Are the results remin...