More weirdness from the world of recycling

By Trash Talk on Dec 10, 08 10:00 AM

Designer Nadine Jarvis has proposed a recycling and memorial solution to any dead relatives or dead pets.
She makes pencils out of dead people.

According to Nadine the average dead body creates enough ash to make 240 pencils.

These are marked with the deceased name, birth dates and the date of their passing.

All the pencils are stored in a box allowing for one pencil to be removed at a time. As the pencil is sharpened using the blade in the box the "shavings" are stored in the box and eventually make up the urn of ashes.

Not quite clear what the ashes are being used for but since they are being deposited back in the box I assume it is the traditionally wooden barrel of the pencil that is being replaced with the ashes and not the graphite in the pencil lead.

Of course the project is just an idea from her exhibition exploring the notion of death and remembrance.

You can see the artwork here: www.nadinejarvis.com/projects/carbon-copies

So perhaps not one to put on your Christmas wish list - after all think of the problems: what if you start chewing your pencil, or someone asks to borrow one, or you have to sharpen it away from the box.