Mounted on Sölk Marble · Height: 36cm · Porcelain · Crystal Glaze · 24ct Gold · Silver Leaf
Fire is the element that transforms most immediately.
Water, air, and earth dissolve what they take in slowly, gradually.
Fire consumes it whole.
This is why fire has always accompanied the great thresholds...
initiation, birth, death, solstice.
The moments where one life ends and another begins.
We carry all elements within us, but fire is the one we are most afraid to live.
& unlived fire turns inward....
becomes restlessness, sleeplessness, a body that aches without knowing why, a mind that cannot focus because its energy has nowhere to go.
Fire that is lived, becomes something else entirely.
It becomes drive without aggression.
Focus without rigidity.
The fierce, clear joy of being fully alive in a body that knows what it wants and is not ashamed of wanting it.
It becomes the capacity to feel blissful freedom, with the calm certainty of someone who has learned that protecting your own flame is not selfish. Rather it becomes most necessary and healthy thing you will ever do.
To live with this piece is to live with a reminder that your fire is not dangerous. It is not too much. It was never the problem. The problem was every moment you dimmed it to make someone else comfortable. The problem was every time you swallowed the flame to keep the peace.
Your fire wants to be lived. Fully, without apology, without containment.
And the boundaries it creates stand for the very thing that allows you to meet the world without losing yourself inside it.
