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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Lifestyle
Francesca Carington

Death and the salesman: the 22-year-old selling human bones for a living

Jon Pichaya Ferry in his studio in Bushwick.
Jon Pichaya Ferry in his studio in Bushwick, New York. Photograph: Lexi Brown

In a small, light-filled Bushwick studio space, a brown box rests on a wooden coffee table. Inside is a human head. “Wanna start?” asks Jon Pichaya Ferry, pulling a box cutter out of the pocket of his black skinny jeans.

Inside is a lumpy form wrapped in thin aqua foam, which he tears off to reveal a skull’s mandible. Out comes the rest of the skull; he fits the two parts together and places it on the lid of a coffin in the corner of the room, next to a can of Red Bull.

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