• Hi, I'm Liz, the maker and founder behind Post Objects. 

    I'm a ceramicist so my main deal is fire and form. 


    Like a good song, I think the best sculptures are all about emotion. It's only the great tunes that make you instantly picture yourself in the music video. Good pieces grab you with a feeling straight away.


    A lot of the forms I've been making recently seem angry and brutal, (side note I'm a sleep deprived millenial mother of two preschoolers). My work at the moment has a pissed off vibe, and I've been feeling like it was too ragey for anyone to want in their home.


    With two small kids and two side hustles, my social life these days is based on voice notes and group chats, and the rants are unhinged. It might just be me, but I feel like the voice note is the place women seem to be able to lay it all out clearly and commiserate in rage or hysterics.


    A friend told me recently that she was yet again abandoning Bumble, and I heard the horror in her voice describing the scene. I was in my studio when I got her voice note and the text screenshots.


    I listened to her note and was screaming internally over the injustice of the situation. She's incredible and an absolute catch, and of course the stupid apps never do justice to her magnetism.


    I wanted to send her a fucking trophy to remind her on her worst days that she's a weapon. But trophies are hideous. And as I sat in my studio fuming at the state of it all for my friend, I looked up at my shelf of ragey forms and had an idea.


    I'd been worried that all of this work I'd been making in ceramics was too intense and brutal to ever sit in someone's lounge next to their highly curated design led decor/tat. It was putting out rage vibes, and I thought it would bum people out.


    But then I looked at my shelf, and I looked at the screenshots of her being critiqued post date, and something clicked.


    I realised the pissed off ceramics I was making were giving off the same vibe as the group chat rants. There, on my phone, was an endless scroll of women messaging each other about the everyday bs they were dealing with. And there in my shelf were forms that seemed like small monuments marking each of those situations.


    There were so many times when I'd wanted to do something more than message a friend when she was going through it, occasions like "congrats on the divorce, he was a dickhead," "I hate your boss too," and "you're a hot bitch, remember it." The only half decent option was wine or a massage. Don't get me wrong, those are both great, but I wanted to post her something when she was really up against it that got to the heart of the matter more deeply.


    The reason is simple: when you're going through it, sometimes the absolute last thing you want is advice or fixing. What you really want is what is in those voice notes. Allies who notice it and get it 100%. You want friends to rage with you, and get hysterical with you, and essentially let you get it all out. It's catharsis.


    That's what these candles are about they’re like a Hallmark card and a trophy, but not shit. 


    They're for friends to send to friends when they know something needs to be deeply acknowledged. Yes, there's birthdays, but there's also “congrats on quitting that job you hated”, and "he's not deep, he's just quiet." The moments we all notice in the voice notes but that don't normally get any other recognition.


    Giving one of these to a friend is a signal, a way of showing that you really get it, and you really love her. Each form is directed at a very specific, female-centred kind of situation. The chronic hustle of work. Eternally having to be the nurturing, reliable one. Despairing over the horror of the dating apps.


    There's only three so far, but there is a wellspring of rich inspiration sitting in your voice notes, so more are on the way very soon.


    The project has meant collaborations with Completedworks, Monument Gallery in London, and an exclusive range for SSENSE. 


    I love making more than anything, so I create forms and then move on to the next. Forms are here until they run out, and then gone.


    let’s be clear though a candle doesn't fix anyone. That's not what this is about. It's more about noticing and marking the shit that happens, and sometimes burning it all down. The reminder on your shelf that someone has your back.


    Thanks for reading my rant this far, if you made it this deep then you probably feel it. Have a look at the candles and read their bios, see if a specific friend pops into your head, if she does then you know what to do. Also DM me @postobjects if you have a candle situation request, I'm obviously always keen to hear your inspiration/rants.


    This is my wax project; if you're more into ceramics, visit lizwycherley.com.

    When I'm not filthy with clay in my Titirangi studio, you'll find me oversharing on my serious pottery account, @liz_wycherley.

1. The "Flow" Collection,
how its made.

We began by collecting material behaviors, honey folding into itself, lava cooling at the edges, mud pools bubbling. Identifying the ones that might translate into a solid form.

2. Setting Up the Simulation

Those references were fed into a fluid dynamics simulation. Instead of designing a shape, we change conditions: Should it spin as it drops, should the viscosity be unstable, should surface tension be pushed higher?

3. Choosing What’s Made

When a simulation looks promising, we check if it can actually be produced: Will it demold cleanly, are there undercuts that make it impossible, is the form structurally balanced enough to hold its shape.

4. Printing the Master

Our chosen form is printed in resin, layer by layer. Once printed, the piece is sanded and refined. Whatever exists on this surface will be reproduced forever.

5. Making the Mold

A custom 3D printed mold box holds the master. Silicone gets poured around it. We have had leaks, blowouts, and batches of silicone that went straight onto the floor. It is more controlled now, but there is always some uncertainty.

2. Pouring the Wax

With the mold ready, wax is heated and the wick is threaded. The room stays at a stable temperature so the form sets cleanly. It is a simple step on paper, but wax has its own behaviour, and we adjust as we go.

3. Demolding

Demolding is tense for the first prototype, after that it is our favourite part. We peel the mold back slowly and hope the form releases in one piece. If it does, great. If it does not, we start again.

4. The Finished Object

Once a piece comes out clean, it is trimmed, checked, and refined. The wick is cut. The base is tidied. Then we run burn tests. That is the final step before it becomes a finished object.