Fire represents the power of human imagination and the confidence in one’s ideas. It encourages transfers of energy, focused centeredness and expressive sharing. The fireplace, with its historically and culturally pivotal role, is the quintessential form where the the light of conscience, the flame of illumination and the heat of affection arise as a meaningful whole through the element of Fire.
Nourished its energy, the fundamental virtues associated with human mind and spirit find their allegorical counterpart in the fulcrum of domestic living that is the hearth. The place that Fire occupies inside the house is thus one of convergence and open communication.
