Here it is:

Work on that candle was initiated by my research into what ended up being the current, new, Epitafe logo, i.e., the half-skull. Looking at it upside down, I wondered if that shape could work out as a candle, with the wick protruding from the chin.

But early attempts quickly proved how wrong I was… I ended up with a very unbalanced candle, not mentioning that the wick had to be twisted down backwards in order to have enough wax to burn. The problem was not so much with the idea, but with the human anatomy :-)!

The solution came later: with a wider, bigger lower jaw, and with placing a “regular” candle behind it (do not tell anybody, but that piece comes from plastic legs from a piece of furniture long gone). Those two measures had the effect of both providing enough wax to the wick and also of creating a very nice lighting effect in mid-burning, as in the photo below:

As a sidenote, that skull indeed has a very, very large lower mandible and the very pronounced brow ridges would make a pretty strange human face if it was covered in muscles and flesh. The cleft in the chin was unintentional, but gives a bit more character to the skull, so it stayed :-).