out of the fire....

Henrique Oliveira. Dead Fire (detail). Burned plywood. 2012

Out of the fire the wood escapes, scorched but not consumed. Coiling and twisting like a nest of massive snakes, of blind basilisks. Rejecting its fate. Rebellious.

Henrique Oliveira. Dead Fire.

Henrique Oliveira. Dead Fire (detail).

While a few years earlier, a fireplace leaks a dark puddle (blue sky reflecting on the surface of the deep). Flames quenched.

Out of the fire, water.

Kate MccGwire. Slick. Mixed media with magpie feathers. 2010

See more about Kate MccGwire in the following posts: holy waters; collecting as art practice; and the luminescence of the night sky.

holy waters

Laura Vickerson. Velvet. Rose petals on bridal tulle.
4th century church, Istanbul. 1995

A hundred thousand red rose petals bleed down the wall of an ancient Turkish church. 

While across a continent and more than a decade, a hundred thousand pigeon feathers erupt and gush from a wall in an English crypt.

Kate MccGwire. Retch. Mixed media with pigeon feathers.
St. Pancras' crypt, London. 2007

Kate MccGwire. Sluice. Mixed media with pigeon feathers.
St. Panras Crypt, London. 2009

Kate MccGwire. Sluice. Mixed media with pigeon feathers.
St Pancras crypt, London. 2009

See more of Laura Vickerson's work here or here.

See more of Kate MccGwire's work here or here.