Horus is a part of an ongoing new body of sculptural work embedded in conversations of class, migration, and use. Horus is an edition of multiple decorative candles, ranging in scale from 8” to 12” round and cast in pure white beeswax. This series, Horus, is made from a cast of a commercially produced polystyrene ceiling medallion, otherwise known as a ceiling rose. A formerly functional plaster decorative feature iconic in affluent Victorian houses. Mostly fallen from fashion, current iterations of ceiling medallions are mass produced. I believe these forms fill a social space of sentimentality, aspiration, and proxy to antiquated domestic sensibilities.

The wax candles are set on top of a piece of mirror cut to fit underneath, the mirrors would be visible only in the middle of the circular forms, as viewers bend close to look. By reversing the placement of the ceiling rose, from looking up to looking down, the work implicates viewers in re-navigating their understanding of this common domestic ornament. When lit eventually the wax melts down to partially destroy the ornamental form

Horus, Installed in “Libation for Liberated Living”, The Plumb, Toronto, 2022