The Big Burn
This collection investigates the ravaging force of wildfire; a natural or human-caused calamity rising in magnitude. While the spread of fire is a chief concern, here we also draw attention to the silent story left in its wake: reconstruction, respiratory illness, and poverty. In addition to the environmental and socio-economic consequences of a Pyrocene age, artistic and cultural tragedies occur, too. Many artists who lost their homes and studios to wildfire also lost entire bodies of work. But some have found a new muse in the ashes, sharing the art they made from materials scavenged or salvaged from the wreckage.
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Inmate firefighters build a containment line ahead of the Butte Fire
Senior Center Sign with COVID-19 Information Surrounded by Flames
Locals left fruit for animals near the village of Kiotari on Rhodes on Wednesday
Residents bracing for an approaching wildfire on Rhodes on Monday.
The bodies of goats at the edge of a road on Rhodes on Tuesday.
Burned trees on a beach near the village of Gennadi on the Greek island of Rhodes on Thursday
The aftermath of a forest fire near the town of Melloula in northwestern Tunisia, near the border with Algeria, on Tuesday