One of the most important principles in the world of Chemistry is the so-called Lavoisier’s Law or the Principle of conservation of mass, which states that “matter is neither created nor destroyed, it only transforms”.
This applies to everyone, including human beings, for whom when the time comes for us to leave this world, we can choose whether we want to be buried so that as the years go by and the decomposition process our body becomes earth or, be cremated and that our relatives deposit the urn with our ashes where they decide.
Precisely a Mexican photographer and visual artist named Gabriela Reyes Fuchs became news, since a few days after her father died, she had the impulse to do something unique. Using a microscope from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), he observed his father’s ashes very closely, taking a pleasant surprise since what his eyes were looking at was very moving and without a doubt, it changed his life completely and the perception about death.
“It is visual proof that we are made of stars,” says Gabriela, since through the microscope she was able to see that her father’s ashes looked like a kind of microcosm, very similar to what space telescopes capture in the universe.
Fuchs was able to observe a black background on which bright figures could be seen, similar to stars, in shades of orange, red, yellow and blue, as well as a type of nebulae around them. “What I discovered for me was a watershed (before and after) and it changed my whole understanding of the universe, of life, of death,” he explained.
“What do you think this is?… What you just saw are my father’s ashes… When he died, I wanted to prove something to myself, but I needed to prove it in pictures,” the young woman explained.
Gabriela’s father was a surgeon, therefore he always had a scientific vision of things; in fact, some of the man’s colleagues told him that he would only see an opaque image through a microscope, discovering the exact opposite.
“It was shocking for everyone, especially for the scientists, who didn’t expect that. It was mind-blowing for me, it changed my world,” she added.
The death of Gabriela’s father occurred in 2012 and what she discovered through his ashes was so significant that she decided to continue with the microscopic investigation of this element, thus requesting a scholarship that helped her create her project called Dead Soon, a work made up of photos and recordings of the remains seen under a microscope and she was exhibited in Mexico, the United States and Canada.
When Fuchs’ artistic and emotional work became popular, she began to receive many requests from people who also wanted to have the image of the remains of their loved ones. This is how the Innerstela venture was born, where people can send milligrams of the ashes and obtain in exchange a photograph of the “universe” they contain.
The official page of this enterprise indicates that the artist wants to share “with the rest of the world the feeling of peace and reconnection that she experienced” when observing her father’s ashes under a microscope. Innersetela, it reads there, is a project whose mission is “to offer families who have lost a relative, human and non-human, a beautiful and subtle way to commemorate their loved ones.”
After a long observation, the photographer finds the most favorable frame; she later cleans it and prints the photograph, a unique work. Each one comes with a certificate of authenticity and is priced at $1,600 plus tax.
“We are all made of the same, everything is made of the same. Sometimes we need to feel that as humans, that we belong to this universe”, the photographer stated.
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