⚜️ UNDERSTORY: I came to pyrography almost by accident. While researching papercut art, I happened across an old Flickr photograph of an art student's thesis project—a chair that had been woodburned from top to bottom.
I was gobsmacked! There was something about taking an ordinary piece of furniture and covering it with burned pattern that completely captured me. I'd never owned a pyrography burner and had no experience with the medium, but I had the strangest certainty that I needed to try it. I just knew.
Perhaps a sensible person would have started with something small but I wanted to burn a table.
So I bought my first burner and set about covering nearly every square inch of one—across the tabletop, around the edge, down the legs, even across the underside. I filled it with the leaves, flowers, ferns, insects, mushrooms, and other little bits of the natural world that I love, letting the imagery accumulate until the table became its own small wild place.
I was so pleased with that first experiment that I made another. And, as it turned out, what began with a chance photograph and one rather ambitious first project became the beginning of my work in pyrography.
