Flowers made of flame — beautiful twice, once as sculpture, once as light.
蜜蠟花是所有手作裡最有「儀式感」的——做好的花可以欣賞，點燃後又是另一種美。每片花瓣都是用蜜蠟片裡一片一片捏出來的，控制溫度和厚度是關鍵。太厚不透光，太薄會碎。
最喜歡的一刻是看到自己做的花朵蠟燭燃燒的時候，蠟液從花瓣邊緣慢慢流下來，花瓣變得半透明——那個畫面比做的時候更美。
造型蠟燭是非常有趣的一門手藝，在接觸前完全沒想到「蠟燭」可以有這麼多的變化：復古造型、仿真食物、蜜蠟花，不同成份的蠟在不同溫度下，加入不同染料與媒材，可以產生意想不到的結果，令人大開眼界！製作的過程也很有趣。
Beeswax flowers are the most ceremonial of all handcrafts — a finished bloom is beautiful as sculpture, then beautiful again as light. Each petal is shaped by hand from beeswax sheets, pinched one by one. Temperature and thickness are everything — too thick and the petal blocks light, too thin and it crumbles.
The best moment is watching a flower candle burn: wax pools along the petal edges, and the petals turn translucent — more beautiful in burning than in making.
Sculpted candles are a surprisingly deep craft. Before trying it, I never imagined "candle" could mean so many things: vintage shapes, fake-food replicas, beeswax flowers. Different wax compositions at different temperatures, combined with various dyes and materials, produce unexpected results — a real eye-opener. The process itself is just as fun.
— TingYu's Deco
Beeswax Flower & Candles · since 2019 · Taiwan
