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For over twenty years the Oregon State Psychiatric Hospital stored the cremated remains of patients in copper containers. Photographer David Maisel found them. His exhibit, ‘Library of Dust,’ is currently at the California Museum of Photography.
For over twenty years the Oregon State Psychiatric Hospital stored the cremated remains of patients in copper containers. Photographer David Maisel found them, and shows the beautiful ? and bizarre ? chemical reactions that took place as the canisters corroded in his exhibit “Library of Dust,” currently at the California Museum of Photography in Riverside. Produced by Sarah Lilley.