Susan's waxy lumps

Four waxy, knobby lumps in various shades of craft store candle wax sit in a shallow, tabletop height container of black sand. There is a red one, a purple one, a caramel colored one, and one the color of coffee with cream. The lumps, each about the size of a child’s fist, are made up of smaller lumps, bumps, knobs, and protuberances. They sit perfectly still, evenly spaced apart in their container, which has plenty of unoccupied sand. One, however (the purple one) sits higher than others atop its own red velvet covered container to the far left side, allowing it to be about five inches above the others. It has its own pile of black sand to rest upon that it does not share. The sand does not look smooth, nor does it seem rough. It has the quality of beach sand that has not been traversed upon; it just lies where it was put. The container that holds this small scene has a grey rubbery lip that keeps the sand from spilling out onto the floor. The lip encircles all for sides of the rectangular, hand made display which stands waist high on four spindly wooden legs.