snowglobe - a new age urn

Snow globe as New Age Urn.

The idea of putting photos of loved ones into snow globes is not new, but through our research into uses for human ashes from cremations we discovered that ashes can be made into many things, glass for one.

The thought emerged that we could make the ash from a loved one into the glass of a snow globe.
A photo of the deceased would be encapsulated into perspex.
Mementos coud be placed inside the globe, for example a lock of hair, a piece of jewelery with the photo.
We could use ash to act as the 'snow' but we believed the ash would dissolve in the glycerin and then we wouldn't be able to see anything in the globe but dirty water.

We started thinking of other things we could put into the globe and quickly thought of a death mask. How would that look in a globe?

We could incorporate human ashes into the casting material of the cast, hence giving a living presence in a static material.

We are going to make a cast of a member of the group and play around with incorporating different things into the cast, like ash or hair.