My Beeswax

Work in progress: Bone Clock (working title). Beeswax: I’m thinking about how this material is of all three categories I’ve been massaging/messaging—animal, plant, and made by humans. (See Pseudomorphs and Celestial Bodies.) The bees make the wax from glands in their bodies; the yellow coloring comes from pollen; and it is cultivated, gathered, and purified by humans. It smells amazing.

Melting beeswax: circle image!
Melting beeswax: circle image!
Wax setting in the Bone Clock
Wax setting in the Bone Clock