For my time based pieces I started with about 70 candles that I would alternate burning every night while in my studio to accumulate wax on a board. The texture was so appealing that I attempted to incorporate that into my other pieces by melting crayons with a hairdryer at an incline on another board. The fluid shapes that wax makes are interesting and ambiguous, but still maintain a smoothness and order that lends definition throughout color and temperature changes so that the piece can be orderly yet still spontaneous. The final board I attempted to use a waxy soap on it daily to create some texture that was somewhat similar to the first two, but because the board looked pretty much the same after 2 weeks, I continued to wash it daily but used various more corrosive cleaning solutions like bleach, windex, lysol, etc—and a scouring pad. I kept with the theme that ran through all of my other projects using text to make the pieces more direct and interesting, but decided to leave the candlewax as it was because it was too bulky and involved for the addition of text.
CANDLEWAX
First set of candles
Second set of candles
Third set of candles
Fourth set of larger candles
Fifth set
Sixth set
Final Product
Original Board
After 1 Week of daily washing with soap and water
CRAYONS
Original Board
After 1 hour with the blowdryer
Two hours
Three hours
Four hours
Final Product
