The Wax Child - Olga Ravn communication design In the early 1990s

In the early 1990s

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

aber kaum einer kann mehr als drei Sätze über ihn äußern: Den Kontinent

symbolizes the border between conscious and unconscious

The Wax Child - Olga Ravn communication design In the early 1990sIt 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