Ashes to ashes
Human beings emerge attached to their mothers by an umbilical cord, and the attachment must be broken in order for the new born baby to become an individual, separate from its mother. Though human beings are born of flesh the bigger picture is also true as evidenced in the words spoken at many grave side services, “We commit it this body to the ground ; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; ----". Carl Sagan famously said, "We are made of star-stuff." Life on Earth was made possible by the death of stars. Atoms like carbon and oxygen were expelled in the last few dying gasps of stars after their final supplies of hydrogen fuel were used up. How this star-stuff came together to form life is still a mystery today. The universal mother and our individual mother’s are united in this images that depicts the circle of life in single line. The end of that line is painted with ashes and tied with a string to show our fragile touching of this universal process, our individuality and our creativity.