The Sweet Wormth of Words

My friend Christina creates beautiful candles, using a technique that takes advantage of the design of napkins. Most of her candles are hollow inside in order to be reusable. To light them up you put a tea light on their central part and in this way you have the same effect with a common candle.

Christina also creates custom-made candles. When she does she usually asks me to draw on napkins whatever her customer wants. 

Her most successful custom-made candles are those with the Greek poems.  I'm posting here two of my favorite "poetic" candles. I wanted to quote the poems that are presented on these candles so as to show the relationship with their illustration. Unfortunately for each candle I was able to find an official translation only for one of the poems depicted. 

1st candle

BREAD
"An enormous loaf, a huge roll of freshly baked
bread had fallen from the sky into the street
a child with short green trousers and a knife
was cutting it and handing pieces to the crowd
but a small girl, a small white angel she,
with a knife was carving and sharing out
pieces of pure s k y
and everyone now ran to her, few turned to the bread,
everyone ran to the small angel who was handing out the s k y
Let us not hide it: we hunger for the sky!"
MILTOS SACHTOURIS

2nd candle

IF YOU WANT TO BE CALLED A MAN (EXTRACT)

If you want to be called a man
you'll never stop even for a single moment
to fight for peace and justice.
You get out on the street, you scream,
your lips will get bloody from yelling,
your face will get bloody from bullets,
but not a step behind.

TASOS LIVADITIS

If you want to see more of Christina's creations you can visit her blog http://chriscandles.blogspot.gr/