08 Jan Making A Firebowl by Night

I was working late in the studio one night, just before the snow came, trying to finish up a rush order of fire bowls for the Sheraton Hotel in Honolulu… My neighbor Preston Cole stopped by and shot a bunch of pictures as the sun went down. They came out just great… I love how industrial the sparks look, ot to mention the great reflected light from the torch. I haven’t had any photos of the work process, so actually, I never really knew what the cutting looks like from the other end of the torch. You can see a finished fire bowl in the left corner, the bowl I’m cutting (of course), a blank behind me waiting it’s turn and the huge drift of scrap in the lower right… pretty much the entire life cycle of a Great Bowl O Fire. Preston gave me a framed copy of this image for Christmas and it was the best gift I got this year!

I was working late in the studio one night, just before the snow came, trying to finish up a rush order of fire bowls for the Sheraton Hotel in Honolulu… My neighbor Preston Cole stopped by and shot a bunch of pictures as the sun went down. They came out just great… I love how industrial the sparks look, not to mention the great reflected light from the torch. I haven’t had any photos of the work process, so actually, I never really knew what the cutting looks like from the other end of the torch.

You can see a finished fire bowl in the left corner, the bowl I’m cutting (of course), a blank behind me waiting it’s turn and the huge drift of scrap in the lower right… pretty much the entire life cycle of a Great Bowl O Fire. Preston gave me a framed copy of this image for Christmas and it was the best gift I got this year!

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