Art from Explosions

My good friend Rosemarie Fiore uses everything from lawnmowers to waffle irons to pinball machines to make art.

For her latest works, called "Fireworks Drawings," she sets off smoke bombs and fireworks on big pieces of thick paper, then collages the results layer by layer into huge, colorful pieces that look a little like stylized fireworks themselves. They're awesome.

For her "Scrambler drawings," she turned an old fairground ride (rechristened the Good-Time Mix Machine) into a gigantic Spirograph. (These are my personal favorite, since she got the germ of the idea when we were at Busch Gardens together.)