My films and photographs using these distinctively Polish grave candles led me to thinking about what they represent, what they stand in place of. I was trying to identify that invisible something in these offerings to a memory, a person, an event. But really they do not represent something that is present but invisible, they act as a physical sign for something that can no longer be physical. Essentially a physical body. They re-physicalise the deceased body, allow it to have a physical presence and to be remembered. Like a grave stone. And this is what I have started to consider as a part of my painting workshop, largely through the combination of the body and wax.
Immemorial: To extend of exist beyond the reach of memory.
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