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	<title>AshesToAshes</title>
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	<description>Visual Arts Project: The Psychology of Smoking &#038; Quitting</description>
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		<title>Madison</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working simultaneously on the artworks and have finished Madison&#8217;s too. I&#8217;ve printed out Madison&#8217;s goodbye letter shown on either side of her cigarette. I wanted to create a feeling of a declaration being made where Madison renounces cigarettes for good. I feel there is a firmness and rigidity in the design that reflects [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackiehoysted.com/ashestoashes/archives/144</link>
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		<title>Shirley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally I created an artwork for Shirley. If you look back at the package that she sent to me some time back she sent me a lot of self motivational messages and I included one of those on the main focus of the artwork. You Can Because You Can Believe  You Can. What a powerful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackiehoysted.com/ashestoashes/archives/141</link>
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		<title>Polly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Polly quit on April 1st and sent me a great package via Fedex with her last cigarette and  extra &#8220;materials&#8221;. Take a look &#8211; it was great and now I&#8217;m under serious pressure to prepare a Temple of Honor that matches these awesome packages I&#8217;m receiving from such wonderful people. Here are some (bad) photos [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackiehoysted.com/ashestoashes/archives/129</link>
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		<title>Madison!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had yet another new package in the mail on Saturday &#8211; this time from Madison. Her quit day was Feb. 24th and she is working hard on keeping that quit. Good for her. This is her goodbye letter and a picture of the package she sent me. dear smokes, i am going to miss [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackiehoysted.com/ashestoashes/archives/126</link>
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		<title>Shirley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a new package in the mail yesterday from Shirley. What a surprise &#8211; not the fact that she sent me her last cigarette (she had promised that to me a long time ago) but the entire contents &#8211; her last half smoked cigarette, a beautiful letter to me, printouts from modules from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackiehoysted.com/ashestoashes/archives/109</link>
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		<title>Tribute to Betty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Betty sent me her Goodbye Letter a few weeks ago and I&#8217;ve made the artwork below  for her. I didn&#8217;t have her last cigarette so I included some packaging for Marlboro Ultra Lights &#8211; the brand that Betty smoked. The artwork is not as &#8220;clean cut&#8221; as the earlier ones but I think it works [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackiehoysted.com/ashestoashes/archives/104</link>
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		<title>Goodbye Letter to Cigarettes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Betty has a wonderful quit going and she has sent her goodbye letter to me to create an artwork to add to my wall of honor. She quit on October 20th, 2008 &#8211; good for her. Her 3 month quit date is tomorrow &#8211; Congratulations Betty! Betty&#8217;s Goodbye Letter: GOODBYE CIGARETTES: I will miss my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackiehoysted.com/ashestoashes/archives/101</link>
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		<title>Great News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been awarded a solo exhibition at the Erik Lauritzen Gallery, at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada during February/March 2011. That is truly wonderful news! My goal is to collect 100 last cigarettes and GROW my Wall of Honor &#8211; it will be so beautiful. Also, I have been collecting materials for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackiehoysted.com/ashestoashes/archives/100</link>
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		<title>Wall of Honor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been 14 months now but I have no more cigarettes from donors to create new artwork! When I started this project I was sure I would receive many but it isn&#8217;t an easy thing to do. If anyone would like to send me a last cigarette send it to me I would love [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackiehoysted.com/ashestoashes/archives/98</link>
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		<title>Temple for Erica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Erica has 7 weeks today &#8211; I hope you like the artwork to celebrate that achievement. Once again I used the temple format, used the gauze, bells, nails etc as a visual language to describe the experience of quitting i.e. one of celebration , death (of old habits, dependancies, beliefs), healing and renewal, with temptation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackiehoysted.com/ashestoashes/archives/94</link>
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