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The Mortician's Grandson
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Unclaimed Remains
2014
32, 8x10 gelatin silver contact prints
The ovens here have cooled and the cremation business is no more. The Holding Vault that contained the bodies of well-known Detroiters waiting for cremation, gave up its empty spaces to boxes containing unclaimed ashes. When that space was gone, a gated back room became the storehouse of forgotten love, an unintended bone museum of human remains with no place else to go. ‘Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust.’
And still waiting.
May 26th, Memorial Day 2014, Detroit
-Marco Lorenzetti