Especie Nocturna I: botanical chandelier of dark tangled branches with glowing wax flowers
Art · Encaustic · Immersive Environments

Wax, symbols, and the memory of the cosmos.

Working primarily with wax, mineral pigments and copal to create encaustic objects, botanical lamps, relief paintings, codices, batik textiles and immersive environments.

A material language between Earth and other worlds.

Selected work

Bodies of work

Rooted in the ancient technique of encaustic, the work brings together wax, textile, pigment, fire, and light to form a material language between Earth and other worlds.

Memorias de cera: crystal chandelier encrusted in dripping wax, lit from within
Memorias de cera Encaustic coated chandelier
Flora de otro mundo: botanical chandelier of glowing wax flowers on dark branches
Flora de otro mundo Botanical sculpted chandelier
Especie Madre I: full framed panel of a tree with sculpted wax roses and integrated light
Especie Madre I Mixed media
Lenguaje II: La Voz Del Mar: blue relief painting carved with glyphs and inscriptions
Lenguaje II: La Voz Del Mar Encaustic painting
Lenguaje I: Señales de otro mundo: detail of a blue batik scroll on a carved iron bracket
Lenguaje I: Señales de otro mundo Batik textile
Aerial view of a symbol drawn in sand meeting turquoise ocean water
Ambientes Immersive Environments
A green batik banner, a serpent scroll, and lit candles arranged in a warm interior
El Universo de Quetzal Series

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The ancient and the cosmic meet in matter. Wax holds the memory; fire reveals the form.
Pau Malo

The studio accepts selected commissions for site-specific works, immersive environments and spatial intervention. Each project is developed in dialogue with its architecture, landscape and context, extending Pau Malo's material language beyond the individual object and into space.

Site-specific installations, immersive environments, sculptural objects and spatial interventions.

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