gaia by VroniGantioler from italy

Gaia is an urn which interprets the wish for immortality in a symbolic way:
The body of the urn is made of either unburned clay (mineral) or pressed and dried turf (organic), materials of which is composed earth. These materials don't need to be decomposed: the pressed turf swells by getting wet and mixes with the earthground, whereas the unburned clay, which is nothing else than tiny stone particles, by getting wet simply dissolves.
A cylinder made out of pressed turf which contains a plant seed is placed in the middle of the urn. The cylinder enables the first roots of the growing plant of staying away from the ashes, which wouldn't have the necessary nutrients for the young plant.
The ashes of the deceased are filled in the urn, whose opening is closed with a ring out of untreated wood. The circular opening of the ring matches with the cylinder and enables the plant of growing easily.
The urn gets buried by making sure that the cover-ring is flush with the soil.
When the buried urn gets wet by rain the turf-cylinder starts to swell. After a while the contained semen, which should be chosen by considering the local environment, starts to germinate. By growing the roots of the shoot extend into the soil, first being protected by the cylinder made out of sour turf, which slowly mixes with the basic ashes to get a fertile soil for the plant.
The roots absorb parts of the ashes of the deceased. In a symbolic way the deceased person lives on in the new plant, a living memorial emerges.

The urn Gaia is not only an approach of connecting conventional burial with the growing nature-consciousness, it also deals with the
old subject of life after death and interprets the wish for immortality in a symbolic way.

Gaia is named after the greek goodness for the earth, the mother of all.