Incense Stick Holder – Shankh Prehnite light passes a little way

light passes a little way in and scatters

Middle Eastern and South Asian resin-incense traditions

ground into the Stupa workshop's myrrh blend and rolled into bamboo-less 10cm sticks in the Kathmandu Valley

with the same quiet waxy polish

reflection

Incense Stick Holder – Shankh Prehnite light passes a little wayHand carved soapstone in the form of a shankh the Sanskrit name for the conch shell. The piece references the Indian or chank shell (Turbinella pyrum) that has been carved and decorated across the Indian Ocean trade region for at least three thousand years, with the natural spiral chamber of the conch translated into stone. Soapstone (mineralogical name steatite) is the carver's stone soft enough to follow the conch's complex curves, dense enough to