The Effigy
Classical Figure CandleA classical figure cast in wax, mounted on a sealed concrete base. The form is composed and still. You light it from the crown. The head disappears first. What remains is what the Romans already left us: a headless form, draped for ceremony, standing in the ruin of its own face.
Poured by hand in small batches. The wax carries no scent — only form and time. Each figure is identical in structure; no two burns are the same. The base is sealed concrete: permanent, indifferent, unchanged as the figure above it erodes.
The burn is not destruction. It is the point.
This object has not been released. Its terms remain sealed.
SealedThe Form
Cast from a classical draped figure — the kind found headless in museum corridors and excavation pits. The form is ancient before you light it. The concrete base is permanent. The wax above it is not.
The Burn
You light it from the crown. The face goes first. Over hours, the figure becomes what antiquity already made of its predecessors: anonymous, eroded, more powerful for what is missing. The wax pools on the concrete and does not move.
The Weight
The base is sealed concrete. It does not tip. It does not move. When the wax is gone, the base remains — a plinth without a subject. A monument to the thing that was there.