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This is not about blacksmithing: Joy Fire
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This is not about blacksmithing: Joy Fire

What can we learn about ourselves, being human and the world through the craft of blacksmithing? This series explores these questions in conversation with innovative blacksmiths of all backgrounds.

In this conversation I’m talking to Joy Fire, forging out of Orange County, California.

We touched on diversity and inclusion, mental health and identity, why we just have to make stuff and gender roles, amongst other things.

Joy is an artist and designer whose work spans large scale commissions to intimate objects. Her work emphasizes and celebrates the physicality of everyday existence. Each hand forged piece offers the opportunity of physical experience through personal interaction.

Joy has been forging and fabricating functional and fine art metalwork for over a decade. She runs her own boutique studio, Joy Fire Studio, where she works on commissioned pieces and forges objects of her own design.

Check out her work and the initiatives she mentions during our conversation:

Joy’s book - ‘Contemporary Blacksmithing: a handbook of tools, techniques and projects for the beginner’ is in the works and will be published in the near future.

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