The World

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.

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