Uranogaea

As Paul Valery says, in the arts of fire: ...there can be no giving up, no respite; no fluctuations in thought, courage or humor. These arts prescribe, in its most dramatic aspect the close combat between man and form. Their essential agent, fire, is also the greatest enemy. It is an agent of redoubtable precision, whose marvellous action upon the substance offered to its heat is rigorously limited, threatened and defined by several physical or chemical constants that are difficult to observe. Any error is fatal: the piece is ruined. Whether the fire dies down or whether it blazes up, its caprice means disaster... (for Alison Trent)