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Burning Bernstein? Whatever floats your boat.

Marc Bernstein reaches over a work-in-progress and grabs an implement — black with shallow curves and a pointed nib — that looks a bit like a vintage stylus, except there’s no inkwell, just wires tying the device to a squat power unit. The instrument sears the piece it touches. He’s tracing waves lightly outlined on a piece of birch with a wood-burning tool, an art form known as pyrography.

“It’s not a term I made up,” Bernstein says. “There is a craft of pyrography, but it’s mostly ‘World’s Greatest Grandma’ plaques, pictures of bald eagles and cigar boxes. The term literally means ‘fire drawing.’”



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