Urn's

These are from my "Coveting Death" series.
I'm including my artists statement from the first showing of these pieces.

There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. And that stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1836.

Unlike Emerson’s view of death, the American view of death is often perceived with angst or revulsion. At a wake, the body of the deceased is placed on display for those in attendance to mourn and remember the dead as they were in life. The remains are placed in an ornamental casket or urn to conceal the deceased in something beautiful as if to make us forget what is inside.
The pieces in my Coveting Death series are a way of looking at death through the eyes of someone who sees death or the macabre as a thing of awe and beauty. The urns are made to be appealing to the eye of the viewer through the use of