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I started another business

I've spent over 40 years working in optical science, telescopes, microscopes, and the physics of light.

A few years ago, I started applying that background to something more personal: creating memorial artwork from cremated remains. The process uses real crystal growth and cross-polarized light microscopy, the same techniques geologists have used for over a century to study mineral samples, applied here to reveal a pattern that belongs to one person alone.

That work started with Ashes to Artworks, focused on pets. Recently, I launched a sister studio, Lumaren, to bring the same process to human memorial commissions.

Every piece is made individually, by hand, in a small studio in Houston. Nothing is painted or digitally created, what you see is a real optical phenomenon called birefringence, made visible through science rather than added afterward.

If you know someone exploring memorial options, or you're simply curious how a lifetime in optics led here, I'm happy to talk.

https://lumarenstudio.com/

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I started another business