Deuil<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Spring Hurlbut\u2019s photographic series Deuil<\/em> (mourning), invites the viewer to contemplate life\u2019s impermanence and find meaning in death and loss. Hurlbut\u2019s images depict the cremated remains of humans and domestic animals entrusted to the artist by their loved ones. For some \u00adphotographs the artist has used a scientific approach to quantify and measure the \u00adcremated remains\u2009; in others she has scattered the ashes over a dark surface in a way that evokes the cosmos. At once, Hurlbut\u2019s \u201cportraits\u201d capture the physical remnants of her subjects and that which transcends the merely physical. These works are both testaments to the particularity of their subjects and reminders of what the loss of each has in common: the inevitability and universality of the experience of death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n