Cremation urns ... human body lost around 21 grams of weight (representing the soul) after a person died. In Sturkenboom’s project, 21 grams is the amount of ashes interred inside the glass ...

About once a week, Herendeen says, he comes across scattered human ashes ... urns, tins that look like they might have once held chewing tobacco, carved wooden boxes, a bandoleer with little glass ...