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Invented Miracle Crying Candle Designed by Diana Keller Helder Studio - $80 (Upper West Side)
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Crying Candle Circa 2020
Made by Studio Helder, Belgium
Paraffin wax head cast from a handmade sculpture
Wax head: White paraffin, declog tool: steel
Includes declog tool and 3 large tealights
Approximately 7.5 x 4 x 5 in. (19 x 10 x 12 cm)
Condition: Excellent, never lighted, includes irregularities appear due to material and handmade production processes
Original box and printed material. Includes studio postcard with a signed handwritten note (the latter is only partially shown a photographs).
Instructions: Place a large tealight in the back of head. After burning candle use the hot cleaning tool to declog tear canal. Cooled and hardened tealight can be removed with a knife. Keep it in a dry and cool place.
Design Background and Theme
This candle cries tears as the candle burns.
The weeping Rosa Mystica from Maasmechelen (Belgium) has been shedding tears continuously since August 8, 1983. Sometimes the statue emits a strong scent of roses.
The inspiration for this work are representations and descriptions of weeping statues, icons and images of saints, which have been among the most sensational and controversial phenomena since the early eighties until today.
Are such phenomena really of miraculous origin?
The investigations into such miraculous tears were not to uncover a fraud, but rather an attempt to give an object a human ability, like crying.
The crying candle is a kind of Deus ex Machina (God from a theater machine). A self-made miracle, which with her implausibility is able to surprise and to resolve an otherwise irresolvable plot situation.