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Through Daniel Hoffman’s hands, ashes of the dead receive new life as art for the living.

Grieving customers send a small scoop of cremated remains to Ahava Memorials where Hoffman transforms the last vestige of a loved one into a ceramic memorial.

Hoffman does not operate his studio inside a cold commercial setting. He runs the small business as a one-man operation from his home in Ardmore.

“It’s a personal service,” Hoffman said.

He meant it in more ways than one.

Hoffman, 43, first utilized the technique more than a decade ago using his aunt’s ashes. A budding animation career pulled him away from his passion for shaping clay. Years later, an abrupt layoff

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