Wax Woman

Marie McCray

Crafted in acrylic on canvas, this piece uses richly layered pigments to evoke the haunting warmth of melting wax and open flame. The fast-drying nature of acrylic allowed for the instinctive movement capturing moments of softness, collapse, and intensity in real time. The interplay of heat and form is heightened by deep shadows and saturated glow, immersing the viewer in a quiet unraveling. The medium serves not just as a tool, but as a mirrors to the emotional weight held in the figure’s slow burn.

$1,658.00

2D Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions: 36 l x 24 w x 1 h
Weight: 3 pounds

This piece explores the quiet unraveling of self – where beauty, pain, and transformation coexist. The figure, sculpted in melting wax, stands illuminated yet dissolving, caught in the tension between resilience and surrender. The flame, both source and destroyer, represents passion, burnout, and the consuming nature of emotional intensity.

She is not dying; she is becoming – slowly, inevitably. The melting is a metaphor for the moments when we are held together by nothing but heat and will. This artwork is about vulnerability in its most raw and sacred form: when you give so much of yourself that you’re left transformed by the very fire you carried.