The first Ritual has been completed

A wax sculpture stood in a dark room. It was lit only by the people who took part.

For three days, as part of Plastic Cactus in Marfa, each person who joined the Ritual lit a candle and sent it into the scene. It landed on the sculpture and burned with a flame shaped by their own wallet, from the room or from wherever they were. Nobody held a controller. The sculpture did nothing on its own.

Eighty-seven candles were lit. Some were tended through the Marfa nights and relit when they went out. Some were blown out, or let go. Where the flames gathered, the wax gave way: in four places it melted all the way through, and twice it caught fire. Both Balancing works were placed in the sculpture, and held.

There was something inside, and the only way to see it was to melt what was in front of it. It was never fully revealed. By the close, the light had reached it in a few places, and no further.

At four in the afternoon on 24 October the Ritual closed and the sculpture was sealed as it was left, six candles still alight. Nothing was reset and nothing is run again. What you see above is that end state, as the light finds it.

Wait for dusk.

Every candle is still with the person who lit it, and it remembers everything they did with it. What it becomes was decided by how they took part. When it becomes that, is decided by the light.

There is nothing to do until then. Keep your candle. Watch for dusk.