Fresh off of collaborations with Hoek, the Boston Ballet, and Polycade, multimedia artist Shantell Martin today launches a limited-run edition of glass votive and XL porcelain candles with fragrance studio Joya.
As a perfect complement to Martin’s meditative line drawings, her personally designed and signed Joya candles will calm and ground with their beauty and scent. Developed jointly, the candles are scented with notes of shaded green tea, ocean air, heliotrope petals, and vanilla flower.
“Joya is a fragrance brand and design studio with vertical creating scent identities and perfumed products with artists worldwide. Shantell has precisely that type of style that is immediately recognizable and constantly questioning, evolving but along the same path—her own,” says Frederick Bouchardy, Joya Candle Founder and CEO. “I believe we also personally share this desire to learn and connect.”
The adorned candle vessels are hand-poured and made in Joya’s 19th Century Brooklyn rigging garage turned ceramic studio. Each limited-edition vessel contains a very special pouring and layered wax process that allows for two different scents to be smelled when burned. Each distinctive scent is released after a specific lapse of time and helps to indicate a specific mark of time (10 minutes, 30 minutes, or 60 minutes).
“My wish is that these candles can burn in the background during your creative process, much like a playlist, invigorating your senses and bringing you back to self,” says Martin. “The layers act as a marker of progress, and I was also very intentional with the words and drawings selected for the candle’s exterior, perhaps even more so than my other projects. I really wanted to create a product that supports the owner of the candle.”
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