Big Bowl O'Zen

Product Overview

Every home needs a center of serenity. The calm lines of the Bowl O' Zen make a statement without speaking loudly. It just is.

Modern, classical, contemporary, the Big Bowl O' Zen fits equally well into any landscape. A perfect hemisphere of heavy duty steel on a slim, nearly hidden base, the Big Bowl O' Zen is as simple as truth, as solid as the foundations of knowledge. As the focal point of a meditative space the Big Bowl O' Zen holds it's own council and invites you to peer deeply into the fire to contemplate the spheres of existence.

The pleasing rust patina of the Big Bowl O' Zen gives it a very natural look that harmonizes with the colors of your plantings, landscaping or garden. Hand-cut and ground to a smooth finish, the Big Bowl O' Zen is a hand-crafted, humble artifact requiring no maintenance to last generations. If you prefer black, you can paint the bowl with a high-temperature grill or automotive spray paint. The heavy 1/4 inch thick steel plate can be left outdoors year round. A hole is cut in the center of the bowl to allow water to drain.

The Big Bowl O' Zen can also be used to stunning effect as a planter or container garden.

Additional Information
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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.