#18

Welcome to my favorite stage of the process! I volunteered to help do the burning I am always very excited to apply tools to my fine art projects especially when it involves adding heat. We had multiple strategies to the burning. We first started to just burn the edges but then we liked the effect we got after really torching the center of the piece. We liked when the wood started to bubble and scar.

At one point Yifan got a little carried away and we lit our entire family of shapes on fire. We couldn’t put it out in a controlled way so we had to let it burn into ash. It turned out to be a great video and also we saved the ash and used it as a decorative part of the final piece.