A candle with a wick made from yarn the same length as US president Donald Trump's proposed US-Mexico border wall was unveiled at Jerusalem Design Week earlier this month.
The giant candle was one of several designs created on a custom-made candle-making contraption that was installed in a room at Jerusalem's former Bezeq Telephone exchange building.
Photograph by Claudia Rothkegel
Called Borderline, the project was conceived and created by UK-based designer Marlene Huissoud and Israeli designer Erez Nevi Pana in collaboration with Arta Yarn Manufacturers ? a factory in Tel Aviv that produces small wicks for candles.
The project saw yarns the same length as various contentious borders around the world, dipped in black wax and coiled up to create large sculptural candles before being symbolically burnt away.
As well as President Trump's proposed 3,218-kilometre border wall, candles were made to represent the 780-kilometre West Bank Barrier, the 2,700-kilometre Moroccan Wall of Western Sahara, the 60-kilometre wall around Baia Mare in Romania and the 135-kilometre Hadrian's Wall in the north of England.

"Borderline stems out of a general feeling of insecurity, an instability that seems to have taken over the whole world," said Marlene Huissoud. "We wanted to translate this fragility by the installation poetically and politically."
"Borderline explores the ways in which design can imagine unity within diversity, facing the global upsurge of nat...