How do your portraits achieve the look of the photograph of the family member I submitted to your studio?

Excerpt from Musee Interview with Icons in Ash founder, Heide Harty

I use a more painterly, but still methodical and highly repetitive, or meditative, technique, in which I draw many layers of very diluted ink onto either an emulsion of ashes and binder, or on a surface of pure ashes.  These look almost like photographs, but have a much deeper and textured feeling because of the layering of the drawings.

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