I was asked to make a fire pit as a present for a wedding anniversary, the recipient was a middle aged man but his partner was a regular visitor to a yoga class, after a number of concept sketches and consultancies and despite the tenuous link to yoga I decided a Lotus flower aflame would look good in their garden. I noticed the shape of a cement mixer drum was akin to a firepit and so I tracked down a doner drum, I cut cleaned the cement off and cut the petal shapes, then with difficulty I heated and beat the steel petals and inverted them. Deciding that the flower was sparse I tracked down another steel cement mixer drum and cut out individual petals, heated and beat them and welded them to flower shape, it was at this point i realised how large the firepit had become and frantically asked the customer their maximum dimensions that their garden space would allow the firepit to be. Luckily I could push the petals in and weld them in place, then I used the welder to melt the petal edges into softened beads that give the impression of jagged edges.