Meridian Firebowl

Product Overview

The Meridian's canted bowl is a study in balance and an homage to the phases of the moon. I love the way the crescent form of this bowl changes from different angles, just as the moon waxes and wanes. This firebowl is a perfect illustration of Nathaniel Hawthorne's statement, "Moonlight is sculpture."

Man has ever sought to grasp the moon, the lunar spell woven thick in our stories and songs. Lit from within, the Meridian has the appearance of a great harvest moon, glowing orange and dusky in the night. In dark, the base disappears into the shadows leaving only the glowing center visible, as though suspended at the low horizon.

The Meridian is a perfect solution for locations prone to high winds. You can rotate the bowl on its base to cradle the fire in a protected space or to control smoke and sparks. Although all of my raised firebowls radiate heat to the upper body, the Meridian reflects more heat higher, making it one of the most practical for heating the outdoors.

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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.