Beauty for Ashes

On Restoration After Hardship

Charcoal is an interesting medium. You take willow or grape vine, and you enclose it in an airtight container, bury it in a fire, and cook it. The lack of oxygen in the container turns the sticks into charcoal, burned but not burned up.... And then we artists take them, and create artwork literally from ashes.

There's a message there.

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