Caution: flammable  Where pyromania meets contemporary art.
FROM ITS MAGICAL, unpredictable dance to its warmth, fire
transfixes us. We revel in its destructive power and are
fascinated with the lack of control it represents. There are
those among us who are compelled even further by the
possibilities of fire. Those who play with fire, and I mean
really play with fire—arsonists aside—are indeed daredevils,
driven by the need to contain and control its beauty. The
distinction is subtle, but in fact the fire setters and the fire
artists inhabit very separate worlds.  New Prometheans
International Fire Festival  CoCA, Sand Point Naval Air Station,
October 8  Welcome to the New Prometheans International Fire Art
Festival, presented by CoCA and curated by Astrid Larsen, a
Seattle-based Danish-American fire artist. This weeklong tribute
to fire features folks whose lives revolve in some way around
fire. While swapping stories and artistic visions, they will
contemplate why fire is so vital to every culture on the