Made for her mother's night table to hold her father's cremains -- made from materials of birthplace, journey's together, schists and basalts and glass -- every material has personal meaning. This is part of the urn story: "I am stepping away from my academic position to take some time to craft a new direction for my life. And I will be spending quite a bit of time in France next year tending to my mother and her failing health. Working on the urn made me realize, I needed to tend to this issue and not go through missing spending time with her like I did with my dad." VY