#beeswax
Happy solstice, heathens! ❄️
Made beeswax candles with one landmate late on solstice eve, after a several hour song jam with another (working on ‘O death’ from Songcatcher). Such a beautiful, delicious, nourishing treasure of a night. These candle babies got infused with cottonwood resin & rolled in yarrow flowers, rosemary, juniper, & cottonwood buds. Most are for gifting, but we’re also slowly moving toward no-electric-light in the main house.
After being on the move for a season, and before that living somewhere I didn’t intend to stay, it feels intensely good to have a holiday with friends on land that I can actually feel connection to. The cottonwood buds are a sweet tie to friends on the west coast, and the yarrow, rosemary, and juniper are big local allies in boundary holding and protection. The wax came from local bees. I love feeling the interweaving of plants and other beings that feeds into my life & prayers, knowing that the nectar of local flowers colored the wax, that the resin from the cottonwood made sticky a friend’s fingers a continent away. Knowing that miles of flight over the blue ridge mountains made the wax possible, that all those visions and moments and reaching toward the sun get twined together to help me remember how to grow brighter with the season and take rest as it comes, how to surround myself with strong, supple edges. We’re crafting new traditions here in the wake of turbulent family histories and with the scraps of community we can knit together safely, & it is such a fucking blessing.
ʙᴇᴇsᴡᴀx ɪs ᴜsᴇᴅ ғʀᴏᴍ ᴄᴀʟᴍɪɴɢ ᴛʜɪɴɢs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴄᴀɴᴅʟᴇs ᴛᴏ ᴅᴀɴɢᴇʀᴏᴜs ᴛʜɪɴɢs ʟɪᴋᴇ ʙᴜʟʟᴇᴛs - ᴜsᴇ ɪᴛ ᴡɪsᴇʟʏ.
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A genius? Do people like that really exist…? Most craftspeople in Sargon are just ordinary apprentices who are still learning to walk, tinkering with metals. But as long as they continue down the path, even they can reach the road’s destination.
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Have you ever consume grilled beeswax powder via drinking it mix in a glass of warm water?
I have, it was in the name of trying to find the “cure” for my pneumonia few years back. Turned out it didn’t work and a cure don’t exist. So prescribed drugs are better.
But I tell ya how it tasted, it’s the most bitterest thing I have tasted in this world. More bitter than lime seeds, more bitter than cocoa powder, more bitter than raw coffee powder, more bitter than bitter melon, more bitter than medications, even more bitter than those chinese herbs, and more bitter than me.
Period. I can’t top that shit.
New fresh batch of patchouli solid perfume in my shop Unicornvibration on Etsy. Superstrong and crisp like the autumn!
Robert Gober
Untitled
beeswax, pigment and human hair
23¾ x 17½ x 11¼ in. (60.4 x 44.5 x 28.5 cm.)
Executed in 1990. This work is unique.
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Robert Gober, “Short Haired Cheese,” 1992–1993,
Beeswax, human hair,
4 × 6¼ × 6½ inches; 10 × 16 × 17 cm
Courtesy: Matthew Marks Gallery
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@cispr-cas9 said:
Yesterday I found a bunch of honeycomb from a torn-apart abandoned hive, and spent the evening extracting wax from it. Now I have about ¾ of a cup of beautiful pure beeswax, but I’m not sure what to do with it. Do you (or followers) have any ideas?
Oh, what an awesome find!! There are so many things you can do with beeswax:
Use it for waxing thread for sewing
Make your own leather conditioner/waterproofing
I do advise some caution with this beeswax - do you know what happened to it prior to when you got it? Is there a chance it was sprayed or contaminated somehow with pesticides? If you think there’s a chance of that, I’d recommend not using it for food wraps or lip balm.
- Mod S
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May 18, 2016 at 06:41PM
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