Fill this void with candles

with Yves B. Golden and Maria Roy

The artist and poet Yves B. Golden proposes a candle-making workshop that goes beyond the artisan exercise of moulding the material.

We will start by creating our own ceramic vessels from scratch with the guidance of Maria Roy, the artist who runs the ceramics workshop at La Escocesa. We will then fill these vessels with handmade candles and also with memories and intentions derived from different healing exercises.

program

session 1: Intuitive Potter Workshop

Wednesday 12/02 - 16:00 h to 19:00 h

During this session everyone is tasked with making a vessel for their candle. What you make can be as abstract or conventional as you’d prefer. What’s important is the transference of energy through the act of molding clay.
 

session 2: Prayer and Memory 

Monday 17/02 - 16:00 h to 19:00 h

This session will be spent reflection on our ancestors and the lives of those we may never know but are intrinsically connected to. Together let’s prepare the spirit with collective remembrance and release of pain. It's an opportunity to release by lighting our inner candles with thoughts of others, thoughts that extend beyond this place.
 

session 3: Decoration, Olfaction and Talismans 

Wednesday 19/02 - 16:00 h to 19:00 h

We’ll reconnect with our vessels and adorn them with special, personal relics. In honor of those who are not with us, fill this candle with their memory, their ease and your light as you glaze and personalize. 
 

session 4: Hand Pouring Day

Monday 24/02 - 16:00 h to 19:00 h

As we light our candles, let us bring the spirits from our past into the space and warm them with pure thoughts and togetherness.

bios

Yves B. Golden is an artist and writer based in Berlin. Her collaborative and solo works have been presented at the ICA in London, the Springsteen Gallery in Baltimore and the Raw Material Company in Senegal. She is the 2024 artist-in-residence at the Feminist Center for Creative Work. She is currently calling all the angels and imagining a free Palestine in her life.

Maria Roy is an artist who uses critical design, along with traditional and experimental craft techniques to explore new narratives to shift from a culture of exploitation and abuse of the environment to one that proposes opportunities to relate in an egalitarian and immersive way to species and the environment. Her main subject of study is the earth, as living matter that speaks of history, politics and ecology, and she works with the material remains she encounters to make ceramic sculptures.

If you have any needs or questions regarding the accessibility of this activity, please, visit the page "access La Escocesa" by clicking here