Drawing Fire

Fire is the indispensable metaphor, a peerless symbolic talisman: light and heat, spark and ash, consummation and cleansing. Fire grows, it sweeps, it breathes, it licks, it smolders. Everything it touches is absolutely changed, roughly translated into ash by the licking flame. It is chemistry and poetry at once. But how do you draw fire? It is an object with no surface. I can hold it in my hands, but it will cost me. Does it have volume? Does it have geometry? Fire happens at the edge of chaos and order. How do we draw such a thing?

Keywords: burning ; carbon ; chaos ; chemistry ; colour ; flame ; graphic ; heat ; pattern ; representation