When Anne and I lived in Chicago and embarked on the occasional little journeys out of the city, we often stopped at the big fireworks markets in Indiana to poke around and hunt for fun novelty fireworks. While fireworks are certainly fun to ignite, we really enjoy the delightful colors and designs of the fireworks themselves (like colorful little presents, exquisitely wrapped!) and have held on to some of our favorites! Above are a few photographs I took of novelty fireworks we have collected... I hope you enjoy them! If you'd like to look at some more fun vintage fireworks images, visit here and here (you Brits have some great vintage fireworks sites!)
Below is a wonderful screenprint entitled "Celebration" that I first saw with my sister while visiting the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia. Made by Clay Huffman in 1991, it is a very complex screenprint comprised of 31 different ink colors; I was quite captivated by the subject matter, vibrant colors, and technical excellence of the print! A few years later, my mom and sister went back to the Torpedo Factory and bought me one of the prints (print #85 of an edition of 190) and surprised me with it on my birthday! I haven't had it displayed in a few years, and went into quite a panic this morning when it wasn't where I thought I had packed it; I found it, however, and am pleased that it looks just as colorful, dynamic and fun as I remembered it! I hope you all have safe and fun celebrations of your own on this Independence Day!!!
2 comments:
we love our paul & anne fireworks..okay maybe i love them more than jeff but truly, they are adored! love that red, white & blue pic of all the fireworks fun...how do you display these at home?
hope your 4th was grand! we got smoke up our noses from sparklers and smoke bombs...
Hi Jek!
A little smoke up the nose is a fine thing, once a year! We attended a lovely barbecue and had fireworks bursting all around our house. I've retired from fireworks lighting myself, after having suffered from a sparkler-induced hand burn situation a few years back. Sparklers? Dangerous? Who knew? Not me, but I know now-- never try to light a bundle of them at once to hand out to your friends; the combined heat of the bundle igniting is enough to cause them all to combust instantly and completely-- bad news for the hand clutching the bundle!
All the Best,
Paul
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