Finally, I am understanding the relationship between the wax and the ply-wood in terms of old and new. The wax is paraffin – from oil – so what we are working with is the remains of very old living beings, the wood is so super young in comparison. Bellow an images of me ‘mining’ the wax out of its industrial container, before our neighbour helped us saw the container open.
The transformation of the wax from solid-to-liquid-to-solid reminds me of the works meandering from abstraction-to-pictorial-to-abstraction, and the neighbourhood’s journey from prosperity-to-decline-to-renewal.
