Fireball Firebowl

Product Overview

The Fireball is my most monumental sculptural firebowl, nearly 300 pounds of formed and welded steel. Dramatic in its bold simplicity, the Fireball is massive, monolithic, deep with meaning. The sphere is often seen as a symbol of the world, of unity, of peace and of perfection. The sheer mass of this simple orb exudes celestial presence— a planetary weight and gravity.

Before Galileo, our world seemed circled by spheres in elliptical orbits, winking and flickering as they traveled the night sky. Early cultures saw the planets as divine presences or emissaries of the gods. Over the ages, history, mythology, science and religion looked to the sky for inspiration and answers. We set the measurement of the seasons by tracking these wandering stars, even as some ascribe to them the power to determine or reveal our fates.

Pythagoras spoke of music in the spacing of the spheres, but we experience the heavens as points of light. We call our planets now by the names of ancient Greek gods and the meanings of those names show their origins in the sky— brightness, the shiner, the fiery, the light bringer and the gleamer.

Experience the ancient reverence of a fire under the stars gathered around this gas giant of a firebowl.

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I'm best known as an artist and designer, but relaxing makes me tense, so I tend to put in a lot of hours on diverse projects.

I've been making art professionally since about 1995, and have made a full-time living as an artist since 2000. On the way to a successful art career I've been a poet and writer, a tech geek, a print and web designer, illustrator, industrial designer, musician, teacher, actor, set designer and even a paid guru once.

I like to joke that I'm the world's most well-educated self-taught artist - I've learned pretty much everything I know by doing it. I work in a lot of different styles using a wide variety of materials. I find that each new medium informs all which have come before.

It's all the same thing in the end - I wake up most days thinking about how I want to change, fix or improve some aspect of the world. And after a couple cups of coffee I get started on it. My specialty is impossibility remediation: if it can't be done, I'm on it.

Art has been good to me, and I feel very lucky to have been able to pursue what interests me on my own terms. As an artist, I am also a small business owner who supports a family, pays taxes, and supports other local businesses through the sale of my fire pits. I have a part-time assistant who depends on the income I provide him to make his house payment. I buy the materials for my firebowls at the scrapyard, paying a premium to have them cut and delivered (I've spent over $10,000 at the scrapyard this year alone). I am one of the larger customers for my local freight company and am pleased to be able to pass along my 75% savings to you.

There are not a lot of successful businesses or job opportunities in the area of Michigan where I live, and the income I make from my art and spend in the community is important to the people I support. The fact that I am able to sell my work globally and bring money into the Michigan economy (one of the worst in the nation) is something that I am very proud of and I feel pretty good about the fact that I can help people pay their bills while larger corporate companies are laying people off left and right.