Harrison Public Library presents “Nights in Bloom” by Rick Freeman / Fireface Designs

Exhibition is on display March 2, 2025 to April 4, 2025.
Gallery is open to the public during regular library hours.

Artist’s Statement:

In recent years, “watching the fireworks” has come to mean a great deal more to me than it did earlier in my life. When I was younger, the local football stadium rested below a sky filled with noise and color, and I waited excitedly each summer for the experience. These days, I look forward with increasing anticipation to “firework season” from July to September, a creative time to connect to my loved ones, and become overwhelmed by the excitement of unpredictability.

Fireworks are stunning displays to sit back and watch on their own, but a new way to appreciate them emerges from my interaction. I’m drawn to the craft because it’s my motion in collaboration with the expanse of light painting the sky that creates something new-something frozen in time and unanticipated. People often tell me that my works look like underwater scenes, like neurons, dreamscapes, or simply like nothing they have ever seen before. I can only agree with each and every one of them.

My foremost goal is to add some beauty to the world, and to remind myself and others that even in the most ephemeral, dazzling moments, there are always ways to capture that feeling and make it your own to keep.

Rick Freeman
Fireface Designs

About the Artist:

Rick Freeman is a Westchester native and small business owner. One July 4th, he pointed his camera into the sky and danced under the fireworks. What happened surprised and delighted him. Thus began a re-kindling of his love of fireworks, and his unique viewpoint of them. He has taken  pictures of fireworks for 12 years, many resulting from the shows offered in and around Westchester. This past summer he went to Harrison’s show for the first time. Several of the shots in this exhibit were captured that night.