Having a fireplace video with timber cracking loudly probably on repeat (but long enough so that I am not annoyed with pattern) is so strange. I am taking a pause trying to contemplate the strangeness of this.

My parents house has a fireplace, and I had a fireplace in Anosovo. Wouldn’t it be strange to imagine that I will have videos with cracking wood on for two first days of 2021 running in the living room? It never occurred to me to set it before although it was a technical possibility.

But what does this prosthetic fire mean? Why do we invite it into our fireless living rooms? Do we want to enjoy the cozy atmosphere it supposedly provides, or we want to keep a dangerous element under control? What then does it do to you to have a fake fire in place of a real one? Does it assuage your fears all the same or perhaps even better than the real? The forever fire, the inexisinguished fire is a symbol of both constancy and change: constancy in change and change in constancy.