box: 3" x 2"
Beeswax, Pigment
Artjärvi, FINLAND
THIS IS AN ONGOING ITEM!

100% non-toxic. The use of beeswax, rather than paraffin, as a binding agent allows for the pigment to more clearly shine though. Still hard to remove from furniture and walls, why do kids always do that? What would Marco do if I had a free-flow moment of crayoning the walls? Maybe something brilliant, think of Sol Lewitt, but alas, I am afraid I doubt I would be as successful. Called Porvoo Crayons after the town they were created in, about a 30-minute drive from Helsinki; we went there. The large building in the illustration is the Porvoo cathedral, one of Finland's most important cathedrals, it was where the Grand Duchy of Finland under Russian Tsar Alexander I was established in 1807 during the Finnish War between Sweden and Russia. Essentially, Finland was still Swedish at the time and at that moment the Russian Tsar declared it an autonomous state under his rule, making it in effect Russian. In May 2006 the cathedral was a victim of arson and the roof burned, it is now under restoration and the arsonist is in jail. Marco and I pointed out how dumb that kid is going to feel 20 years from now, duh, I set fire to one of my countries most important landmarks. There you have it, all on a crayon box.