I"ve discovered that if you drill 3/16" holes *very* near each other in 3/8" Plywood you can draw a picture. These holes are also large enough to snugly hold two matches, the kind on sticks. when you light it each match catches the next match on fire and it burns your images for about 1 minute. The plywood is enough of a resistor to the flames so that the matches go out when they burn down to the board.

This is cool.

If matches cost 85 cents per 320 and it takes 90 matches to complete a linear foot of drawing (25 cents), it should only take 6300 matches to draw an 8 foot outline of Alan Greenspan with an unemployment chart behind him... And I think this should cost less than $20. I might make something instead like a chart for art funding in several large cities (does unemployment count for NYC art funding?). Or maybe just a teddy bear with exploding eyes. I don't know yet.

Anyway. I"m very proud of this small accomplishment with matches and math.



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