How we make our candles
and where are we coming from with aesthetics
05.
ABOUT US
ABOUT US
An important part of my childhood was spent at my grandfather's apiary in the Ryazan region - with the buzzing of bees in the apple orchard, the gathering of trutoviki for the chimney, and the smell of honey in the bathhouse. I started making candles many years after my grandfather left me, and at some point I realized that working with beeswax became for me a kind of continuation of the conversation with him. I love to read his beekeeper's diary, which is quite technical, but for me tender and poetic: in it grandpa lists the honey-bearing plants, writes down when the bees started to fly this year, praises them if they “work well” and marks the days when linden blossoms - which means the bees start collecting linden honey. ¶ At Swetlitsa, I make candles only from beeswax. It's a sculptural and living material, you don't get tired of exploring it, and experimentation with technique translates into new candles. It is important to me that the wax appears at the point of coexistence between man and nature. This is my main interest. ♡ Nastia Grigoriadi
