The Wax Child - Olga Ravn communication design living off and living with

living off and living with vintage – the creatives we meet in this issue all share the excitement about the tangible stories embedded in their vintage finds

and she is teaching at Japan Women’s University and Osaka University of Arts as a visiting professor

the shaping of space

he worked in France for most of his life

symbolizes the border between conscious and unconscious

The Wax Child - Olga Ravn communication design living off and living withIt was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open, and yet it watches and listens. It looks on as Christenze is haunted by rumour, it hears what the people whisper. It sees how, in the