What the Fire Kept is a series of nine wall-mounted ceramic sculptures created through a botanical burnout process. Fresh zinnias, sunflowers, and poppies were repeatedly dipped in liquid ceramic slip and fired in the kiln, where the organic material burned away completely. What remains is a fragile ceramic shell—an imprint of the flower itself, preserved through transformation rather than direct representation.
Each botanical form is glazed and mounted to a hand-thrown 10-inch convex ceramic dome, suspended by a handmade brass loop. The resulting works exist somewhere between specimen, relic, and memory, capturing a fleeting stage in a flower's life while revealing the delicate structures often hidden beneath petals and bloom.
Created by Aron Fischer of Facture Blooms, What the Fire Kept explores themes of impermanence, preservation, and the unexpected ways material can hold a trace of what has been lost. Through fire, the flowers disappear, yet their presence remains.
- handmade locally by artisan Aron Fischer
- each piece in the series is approximately 10" in diameter
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