Studio Notes

I make candles the way I make art: idea first, everything else follows.

Studio Notes is a place for in-between moments. These are the sketches, thoughts, and fragments that shape what I make. It’s where scent meets process, and process meets memory. Some entries start with wax, others with words, but all of them begin here, in my Vancouver studio.

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Burn This Letter

Some things are meant to disappear. Burn This Letter is a reflection on impermanence — on how candles, art, and memory all change shape as they fade.

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Nothing is Ever Left Behind

Every medium leaves a trace. From drawing to film to ceramics to scent, each practice teaches the next how to hold light, form, and memory — nothing is ever truly left behind.

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Bad Poem

Revisiting old sketchbooks, I found the poems I wrote years ago — raw, sincere, impossible to rewrite. Bad Poem is a scent about that tension between expression and privacy, and the strange courage it takes to look back.

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The Month Everything Slows Down

November slows everything down — the wax, the hours, even me. This journal entry traces how rain, rhythm, and routine shape the way I pour and think in the studio.

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Summer Forever

A hand-poured candle made to hold onto late light. Summer Forever captures that weightless warmth between day and night — an artist-made scent from my Vancouver studio about not wanting the season to end.

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