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Easter eggs painted by generations of family. A metal stylus (looks like a pen) is dipped into the hot beeswax, and the design is etched on the egg shell. For each color, a separate design is etched, then the egg is dipped into dye. So if you have 5 colors, you have to etch, dip, and dye 5 rimes.
The burning of a beeswax candle often develops into an interesting sculpture. I love the colour of this wax it has a warmth about it.
beeswax candle and raku candlestick
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The warm glow of a beeswax candle I bought at the Sunny Hill Resort in the Catskills this past weekend. It gives off a subtle buttery scent. I burn it in memory of my dearly departed wife Joni. Hope you like it!
The final treatment for alt processes prints. Melt the wax with a hot air gun and blend it with the oil. Apply the mixture with a brush and use the hot air gun to "melt" it into the paper. Polish with a cloth to achieve an even and matt surface. Smells and looks great!
A honeycomb cell measures approximately 5mm wide and is constructed from beeswax exuded from a gland on the honeybee’s abdomen. The cell will be used repeatedly either to store honey or raise brood. Brood cells are cleaned and polished with propolis as each new bee emerges, slowly darkening them over one or more seasons. Cells are offset and you can see the structure of the opposite cell when you look through the comb.
A side chapel in Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. Notice how the expensive beeswax candle has been hollowed to accommodate a more economical tea light.
Processing the first batch of beeswax. This block still needs more cleaning, but is showing promise for candle making for Christmas. It cooled quicly causing the crack, but revealed some lovely textures.
Cast beeswax
Tim Silver (b.1974) is fascinated by the human condition, impermanence and the fact of entropy. From the moment of birth things start to decay. Unlike classical sculptural forms, fall on me 2023, is decaying right here in the gallery. That's because he has cast these embracing figures out of beeswax. After a period of time, only photographs will remind us that they were here.
As I said, his sculpture represents the human condition. But do people see the faces in this embrace or the decaying "flesh"?
Tim Silver: I've been losing you
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Let me add a comment that was prompted by my friend Mohamed Mohamed's point below about art as meditation:
It really takes a different attitude from the literalistic scientific mindset that dominates thinking today. Beauty takes many forms, but so many people can only see it in something obvious (like a sunset). But even a sunset is never the same twice and is quite ephemeral. That's part of the message Tim Silver has here. But even more important in my view is that to appreciate modern art we need to check our prejudices and preferences at the door and simply experience a work like this. Let it speak to us, even if we don't fully understand it or agree with the message. Humans are art creating beings, and this takes many forms. The best we can do is try to appreciate what the artist is trying to do, rather than demand they conform to our narrow definition of what beauty or art might be.
Icarus ignored Daedalus's instructions not to fly too close to the sun, causing the beeswax in his wings to melt. Icarus fell from the sky, plunged into the sea, and drowned. The myth gave rise to the idiom, "fly too close to the sun."
The moral of the Icarus myth is to not get carried away with the infatuation of innovation and technology. As well, it is a parable and warning regarding man's desire to escape Earth's surface and achieve flight. Essentially, do not get too carried away, and respect the limits of inventions.
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Spent a happy morning dipping these beeswax taper candles to just the right width and length to fit my various candlesticks. My next-door neighbour keeps the bees, so they're about as local as you can get!
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...mine is beekeeping
Bees are not really domesticated. Certainly not in the sense that we use the word "domesticated" to refer to the farmed ruminants, poultry and pigs where humans, via selective breeding, have successfully managed to modify body size, proportions and behaviour to fit the needs of the farmer and consumer.
For sure there has been some selection for temper but bees are essentially truly wild animals that we work with to mutual human-bee benefit.
As beekeepers, we give them somewhere to live, some help with diseases/parasites, we try to control their reproduction (stopping swarming), and then hopefully reap the rewards. For me the key reward is the wonder and fun of seeing them up close and understanding their behaviour. OK the the honey does help a bit too but it is always secondary to the wonder for me.
The picture above shows wax foundation. This is made from recycled beeswax and is "printed" in relief with an outline of the cells to direct/start the bees' cell making. It is used to make the bees "stay within lines" - meaning that brood and honeycomb are in frames that can be manipulated, inspected and moved. Personally I think wax foundation is by far the most important invention in modern beekeeping (interestingly it usually gets relatively little specific mention in talks on the history of beekeeping that I have attended)
In the picture above, the hexagon cell size is 5.44mm between parallel sides.
Good quality wax foundation like this smells even better than it looks - a gentle, warm, waxy-honey aroma - the same smell you get opening a hive in July.
finished beeswax blocks. (using 1 oz/28g moulds from Leeway Woodwork)
I bought the moulds on line - they are the hard plastic ones rather than the silicone ones.
10/10 One of a series of photos showing the process of converting wax cappings to presentation wax blocks.
I was extremely pleased with how these turned out.
Tenpole Tudor - Wunderbar
Huge Beeswax Bracket growing on a decaying beech tree in the beautiful Bolderwood area of the New Forest.
The beeswax banisters brought it all back. Memories half-hidden in a sepia photograph. You see the form, the craftwork in the delicate curves. I smell the rancid beeswax and i hear the plaintive cries of a child. And they say the camera never lies.
My third attempt saw my water balloon explode in the wax. I have wax everywhere! In my hair, on my clothes, on the stove, on the counter, the cabinets, the ceiling. *sigh*. Time to clean up. Note to self. Next time dip the balloons outside.
candles I made today from beeswax I bought at the farmer's market. These tins have cute little lids I am going to stamp-I'll show the finished product soon-wish you could smell their lovely scent!
79/365: Spotted some busy bees on the way to the train station this morning. Note to self, remember to charge the camera battery. I took four photos before the battery failed me.
Cast beeswax
Tim Silver's moving sculpture of a human embrace is surrounded by entrancing and colourful contemporary paintings that almost imply the stained glass windows of a cathedral. They are at once life-like (because they were cast from real people), and dying (because the beeswax is slowly melting).
Only the photograph and film will preserve the memory of this sculpture when it is gone. In the meantime, the lesson for us is that there is beauty in the impermanent and as the Japanese would say, all of life embodies the principle of wabi-sabi.
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