FIRE AS SITE https://fire-as-site.com FIRE AS SITE Mon, 04 Apr 2022 02:00:19 +0000 https://fire-as-site.com en ABOUT https://fire-as-site.com/ABOUT-1 Wed, 24 Nov 2021 01:27:50 +0000 FIRE AS SITE https://fire-as-site.com/ABOUT-1 FIRE AS SITE is an ongoing, site-specific project exploring agile practices for radical placemaking in the fire-impacted West. &nbsp; Site-specific is a purposeful misnomer because wildfire, of course, doesn't stay in one place. Yet fire seems to transform reality into a strange new "site" no matter where we are. &nbsp; After its first activation in the summer of 2018, FIRE AS SITE&nbsp; continues as a series of gestures and conversations with wildfire as a “site” for relationality and creative response. DISPATCHES https://fire-as-site.com/DISPATCHES Mon, 04 Apr 2022 02:00:19 +0000 FIRE AS SITE https://fire-as-site.com/DISPATCHES DISPATCHESNOTES FROM A MOVING FIRE&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="3300" height="5100" width_o="3300" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/97af22817e40e4ae1e9f9a6f3f5f4fe6c68dffcc57549bfc846398a9b90feef2/SURVIVAL-IS.jpg" data-mid="182754016" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/97af22817e40e4ae1e9f9a6f3f5f4fe6c68dffcc57549bfc846398a9b90feef2/SURVIVAL-IS.jpg" /> ‘SURVIVAL IS’ 11x17 inches advocating for an ethos of creative response-ability JUNE 2023&nbsp; ︎ <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf3bd327487467780cfaf0cfdc32f78eaae2a2ea160b72a8466a2704ba2ab100/IMG_1973.jpg" data-mid="182754873" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf3bd327487467780cfaf0cfdc32f78eaae2a2ea160b72a8466a2704ba2ab100/IMG_1973.jpg" /> on fire and chronic illness in the forest, it’s 8am. i am standing with my coffee in a grove of jeffrey pines whose trunks are ringed in lichen of a spectacular lime green. a hundred yards off,the morning’s traffic moves into tahoe city.&nbsp; like a thing moving tentatively from its hiding place, i feel out the fissures and tears that run along the torn edges where ambition once sewed optimism inside me. being back in this forest has me thinking about this very project, which has lived inside me for several years, the most recent of which lead me through an unexpected landscape of choronic illness and the half-life of&nbsp;recovery. i am reckoning with lost things. i am a different body: i know how fire can devastate an internal landscape. my body&nbsp; remembers the winter where nothing grew. my body who knows the mess of miscarriage and incompleteness; grasping. walking now throuogh the forest, my body sees in a hundred layers how devastation rests in the cycle of all things. without it, we grow heavy and thick and dry. self-preservation entices combustion. i am a mother bearing marks of invisible flames. how do i move like the tiny flowers who come forth knowing only the way toward sunlight? JUNE 2023 ︎ ︎LAKE TAHOE,&nbsp; CALIFORNIA <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/985feab353b6dc68994b3f32b9e1ad8fbe40a4e62b3ef99704464222c8055248/IMG_2014.jpg" data-mid="182754874" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/985feab353b6dc68994b3f32b9e1ad8fbe40a4e62b3ef99704464222c8055248/IMG_2014.jpg" /> semiotics of forest management whose language marks the trees? JUNE 2023 ︎ ︎TAHOE NAT’L FOREST, CALIFORNIA <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aabe5d363578750e78d5aae1dec2c4624e98aa5a34325dc583bc0dd86a3c4bbb/IMG_1746.jpg" data-mid="182759069" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aabe5d363578750e78d5aae1dec2c4624e98aa5a34325dc583bc0dd86a3c4bbb/IMG_1746.jpg" /> walking the fire road my mind said, doubt the orange flowers said, nothing goes away MAY 2023 ︎ ︎EAST BAY HILLS, CALIFORNIA <img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b101adc78cbcdaeb126e71ad9ce4e7f71089a74dbfab8fdc6b6cbf021e16f51/IMG_8451.JPG" data-mid="181403928" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/7b101adc78cbcdaeb126e71ad9ce4e7f71089a74dbfab8fdc6b6cbf021e16f51/IMG_8451.JPG" /><img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac0cd8ac7dafb3a007d7f79fd37ae315761055bca8de58687121f15346e24c4b/IMG_8625.jpg" data-mid="182755786" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac0cd8ac7dafb3a007d7f79fd37ae315761055bca8de58687121f15346e24c4b/IMG_8625.jpg" /> the fire inside mauna loa is erupting. the night before hawaiian independence day (nov 28th), the flow began. lava snakes down the side of the black mountain as helicopters hover above. on the island of kauai where my partner and i have been living, the volcano is dramatically eroding, carving finger-thin ridges of green from its slopes and decomposing into iron-red hills that sprout climbing jungles; a thousand miles of green. here on the big island, the volcano creates new earth below our feet. to be in humble relationship with hawaii is to see how much of the earth is volcanic. for hawaiians, the agent of all life - she who warmed geothermal vents in the sea - is the fire goddess Pele. NOV 2022 🌋 ︎BIG ISLAND, HAWAII <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b5c6ece131c43adf6e31dd24586c4b0a909c56c80e9f2ed88a9a4bf8e63bcc5/IMG_0295.jpg" data-mid="182759643" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b5c6ece131c43adf6e31dd24586c4b0a909c56c80e9f2ed88a9a4bf8e63bcc5/IMG_0295.jpg" /> drawing with charcoal created by the Jones Fire&nbsp; JULY 2021 ⚫️ ︎GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA&nbsp; <img width="750" height="1334" width_o="750" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6180f12b88ac96713acd671274f944f3202d28aebc6858c62b66d89c4a1b2977/A1F06C0F-4936-4601-B711-2645D4FC6C02.JPG" data-mid="182759668" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/6180f12b88ac96713acd671274f944f3202d28aebc6858c62b66d89c4a1b2977/A1F06C0F-4936-4601-B711-2645D4FC6C02.JPG" /> <img width="750" height="1334" width_o="750" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/134efe3b04fa464ffc1fb87c5b3116e0d59251fd3bb2b879d252a924ab616306/B8999380-81FE-47DA-8F3A-536509F5D5DC.JPG" data-mid="182759671" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/134efe3b04fa464ffc1fb87c5b3116e0d59251fd3bb2b879d252a924ab616306/B8999380-81FE-47DA-8F3A-536509F5D5DC.JPG" /> <img width="750" height="1334" width_o="750" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3895a55db762b4bcdcd0be637bc6a078975f540812bdbabe583ee066c25ea2a7/30E724F9-A9B6-4DB4-AFFD-7B689F4DC26D.JPG" data-mid="182759666" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/3895a55db762b4bcdcd0be637bc6a078975f540812bdbabe583ee066c25ea2a7/30E724F9-A9B6-4DB4-AFFD-7B689F4DC26D.JPG" /> <img width="750" height="1334" width_o="750" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc20bbb255ef516e07bbcb8d7b65311d48230078f65cc9ea9abd8edd6e96a843/E1F272B1-346A-428D-B12A-93440DA986E3.JPG" data-mid="182759864" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/fc20bbb255ef516e07bbcb8d7b65311d48230078f65cc9ea9abd8edd6e96a843/E1F272B1-346A-428D-B12A-93440DA986E3.JPG" /> <img width="750" height="1334" width_o="750" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7aa6f6c1b0e160c4ea2394afd3e2f57236203e18217d597f035470a5f5168f32/B541F730-B138-49C7-8B31-485A597C8853.JPG" data-mid="182759670" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/7aa6f6c1b0e160c4ea2394afd3e2f57236203e18217d597f035470a5f5168f32/B541F730-B138-49C7-8B31-485A597C8853.JPG" /> <img width="750" height="1334" width_o="750" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ed2142bcd777fb2e2719921040611189242b6219fbef3db7ada0022987cf7cd/FB29C515-275B-4827-861B-422346BDBECC.JPG" data-mid="182759865" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/2ed2142bcd777fb2e2719921040611189242b6219fbef3db7ada0022987cf7cd/FB29C515-275B-4827-861B-422346BDBECC.JPG" /> <img width="750" height="1334" width_o="750" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a838747b651735764e510d2e8290c512d7a8b72b1b29e83a5a6cc8068eff259d/3FD00706-3B1A-4B57-A8A4-A25BE97B83F0.JPG" data-mid="182757038" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/a838747b651735764e510d2e8290c512d7a8b72b1b29e83a5a6cc8068eff259d/3FD00706-3B1A-4B57-A8A4-A25BE97B83F0.JPG" /> <img width="750" height="1334" width_o="750" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b1badac6e0f106f522ca180cbfe67c9fa9199bdfa59645175c7fe09da687577/A03C15F1-6862-4AB7-9ADB-094BADF4EF16.JPG" data-mid="182759669" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/3b1badac6e0f106f522ca180cbfe67c9fa9199bdfa59645175c7fe09da687577/A03C15F1-6862-4AB7-9ADB-094BADF4EF16.JPG" /> <img width="750" height="1334" width_o="750" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2498487939eeaff1ae1965b0a0ba355bb51d65b0b1e06858681d4e5c3a3944af/44DE3D71-A208-4A9B-B1A1-541CE0F31F96.JPG" data-mid="182759667" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/2498487939eeaff1ae1965b0a0ba355bb51d65b0b1e06858681d4e5c3a3944af/44DE3D71-A208-4A9B-B1A1-541CE0F31F96.JPG" /> <img width="750" height="1334" width_o="750" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e23b829ac999c560108fc01e09667f27576297b92b497f1753dd800d06acbcf2/CCA9DE15-680B-4ACC-BFF0-122176D85FCB.JPG" data-mid="182759672" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/e23b829ac999c560108fc01e09667f27576297b92b497f1753dd800d06acbcf2/CCA9DE15-680B-4ACC-BFF0-122176D85FCB.JPG" /> charcoal triptych ran through the trees and found a mine shelves of earth and rust-wrought cars which cued a dream from a few days earlier, of trucks without brakes, beds laden with powdered rock, careening down a carved-out mountain through an earth-churning wheel that never stopped... and a tower whose foundations are air, and not rock and beyond that, a forest burned symbols on the trees this land of scarred surfaces am i dreaming you or are you dreaming me?&nbsp; OCT 2020 🔥️ ︎CAZADERO, CALIFORNIA <img width="904" height="906" width_o="904" height_o="906" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d20449fb31514d70577e41d2b33d27d936b388ed7f568d988bbea6f3de8de66b/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.31.51-PM.png" data-mid="182759052" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/904/i/d20449fb31514d70577e41d2b33d27d936b388ed7f568d988bbea6f3de8de66b/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.31.51-PM.png" /> ‘smoke ceiling’ shot on a fire road in the east bay hills on the day the bay area turned orange ︎ click to&nbsp;watch SEPT 2020 🔥️ ︎EAST BAY HILLS, CALIFORNIA <img width="1294" height="2000" width_o="1294" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/57168d3f7e38d887dc8bde1f95e1805bf0b2c43f114cd0f43bee2706ffe3e35f/FIRE_RBG.jpg" data-mid="181403927" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/57168d3f7e38d887dc8bde1f95e1805bf0b2c43f114cd0f43bee2706ffe3e35f/FIRE_RBG.jpg" /> ‘fire in paradise’analog + digital collage⁣⁣ print11x17 inches I created think piece after walking the still soot-black streets of Paradise, CA⁣ in november⁣ 2019 the first run of this print raised funds for the Bear Yuba Land Trust to support re-building the Independence Trail, the first-ever wheelchair-accessible wilderness trail and a beloved running trail of mine. a large section of the trail’s wooden flume walkways was destroyed in the Jones fire in August 2020 ︎ click to purchase this print on my website AUGUST 2020 ︎ ︎NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA <img width="1034" height="1338" width_o="1034" height_o="1338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2235cb17fd27ecca6d09bbfd7f9bbb5a00a268a0fcf8970601d0d9ed9358067/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.43.12-PM.png" data-mid="182759050" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c2235cb17fd27ecca6d09bbfd7f9bbb5a00a268a0fcf8970601d0d9ed9358067/Screen-Shot-2023-06-20-at-3.43.12-PM.png" /> every fire is a new fire 🔥 in the rainy beginning months of the pandemic, I spent many evenings making charcoal in the backyard I shared with my best friend and my partner. to do this, i filled metal tins I had found at a local thrift store with branches of willow and manzanita and pine, making beds for the tins amongst the embers. I was turning the charcoal into paint to paint with for my thesis project, LISTENING IN VOID SPACE:&nbsp;http://listening-in-void.space/ every fire is a new fire. no fire is the same. &nbsp; SPRING 2020 ⚫️ ︎GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9df4b68310a92d1ff4daea6b150c4bd8e5b153679161f352a6152ed63fd1862f/IMG_2041.JPG" data-mid="182759071" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9df4b68310a92d1ff4daea6b150c4bd8e5b153679161f352a6152ed63fd1862f/IMG_2041.JPG" /><img width="2000" height="1667" width_o="2000" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/afba35d05c39e61507b0dbce431beecd17edc4346521453a578f0f385bf5d1a8/IMG_4712.JPG" data-mid="182754872" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/afba35d05c39e61507b0dbce431beecd17edc4346521453a578f0f385bf5d1a8/IMG_4712.JPG" /><img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b43a96ae3cf962028fcaa984a799b16e115354c1799b8975bc4a190722619f5f/IMG_2044.JPG" data-mid="182759072" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b43a96ae3cf962028fcaa984a799b16e115354c1799b8975bc4a190722619f5f/IMG_2044.JPG" /> it feels like fire &nbsp; a poem 1 this is a landscape painting. it started with the sun. strange sun,&nbsp; smoke sky. fluorescent orb, color like coral but burning. omen of california: coast, mountains, canyons, sky. the west, up in flames: and above us from the space station, an astronaut tweeted “stay safe, my friends, SURVIVE.”&nbsp; 2 i don’t know why I love that color. why it takes an emergency to turn me on. how the color used to mark trees worth felling is the same as the sun in a smoke-throat sky. PANTONE 17-1462 Label: “Flame.” the artificial eats attention. we made a color that would not die. 3 in my dreams those days i saw a woman with a snake around her neck. below her, a black X, though the X was missing a line. and we had drawn too many: roads through the forest forest fat and heavy and dripping and dry. No Trespassing. fire/ break but— we would not lose our green grass our blue sky. 4 the aztec god of snake and fire is also god of letting blood. i draw a circle to describe my woman body, but it is hard to name a thing that is / will / has died. now fear sits coiled, waiting for flames to arrive late at night. red lip cresting our&nbsp; mountains, ash galaxies, red-orange skies. 5 as I child, i was scared of losing what i loved. &nbsp; growing older, i have learned the thrill of it: pain/pleasure and how the body burns things to survive. AUGUST 2018 ︎SAGEHEN EXPERIMENTAL FOREST STATION, TRUCKEE CA &nbsp; SITES https://fire-as-site.com/SITES Mon, 04 Apr 2022 01:58:58 +0000 FIRE AS SITE https://fire-as-site.com/SITES GALLERY <img width="1875" height="2300" width_o="1875" height_o="2300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f71f817fc2a82f506d52013acca0a10f6643853e295fe407e5e02c99def9b71/vertical.svg" data-mid="138517094" border="0" alt="PLACER NULLA" data-caption="PLACER NULLA" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f71f817fc2a82f506d52013acca0a10f6643853e295fe407e5e02c99def9b71/vertical.svg" /> <img width="1875" height="2300" width_o="1875" height_o="2300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f71f817fc2a82f506d52013acca0a10f6643853e295fe407e5e02c99def9b71/vertical.svg" data-mid="138517094" border="0" alt="ETIAM ET RISUS" data-caption="ETIAM ET RISUS" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f71f817fc2a82f506d52013acca0a10f6643853e295fe407e5e02c99def9b71/vertical.svg" /> <img width="1875" height="2300" width_o="1875" height_o="2300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f71f817fc2a82f506d52013acca0a10f6643853e295fe407e5e02c99def9b71/vertical.svg" data-mid="138517094" border="0" alt="MATTIS CURSUS" data-caption="MATTIS CURSUS" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f71f817fc2a82f506d52013acca0a10f6643853e295fe407e5e02c99def9b71/vertical.svg" /> <img width="3001" height="1876" width_o="3001" height_o="1876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c75d766e498a211021f0abe398fd1b7660e58a90f503dd6b87e8a1945eeff0e/horizontal.svg" data-mid="138517093" border="0" alt="SODALES DOLOR" data-caption="SODALES DOLOR" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c75d766e498a211021f0abe398fd1b7660e58a90f503dd6b87e8a1945eeff0e/horizontal.svg" /> <img width="3001" height="1876" width_o="3001" height_o="1876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c75d766e498a211021f0abe398fd1b7660e58a90f503dd6b87e8a1945eeff0e/horizontal.svg" data-mid="138517093" border="0" alt="FAUCIBUS QUAM" data-caption="FAUCIBUS QUAM" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c75d766e498a211021f0abe398fd1b7660e58a90f503dd6b87e8a1945eeff0e/horizontal.svg" /> <img width="1875" height="2300" width_o="1875" height_o="2300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f71f817fc2a82f506d52013acca0a10f6643853e295fe407e5e02c99def9b71/vertical.svg" data-mid="138517094" border="0" alt="FAUCIBUS" data-caption="FAUCIBUS" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f71f817fc2a82f506d52013acca0a10f6643853e295fe407e5e02c99def9b71/vertical.svg" /> <img width="3001" height="1876" width_o="3001" height_o="1876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c75d766e498a211021f0abe398fd1b7660e58a90f503dd6b87e8a1945eeff0e/horizontal.svg" data-mid="138517093" border="0" alt="PELLENTESQUE" data-caption="PELLENTESQUE" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c75d766e498a211021f0abe398fd1b7660e58a90f503dd6b87e8a1945eeff0e/horizontal.svg" /> <img width="3001" height="1876" width_o="3001" height_o="1876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c75d766e498a211021f0abe398fd1b7660e58a90f503dd6b87e8a1945eeff0e/horizontal.svg" data-mid="138517093" border="0" alt="DUIS COMO" data-caption="DUIS COMO" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c75d766e498a211021f0abe398fd1b7660e58a90f503dd6b87e8a1945eeff0e/horizontal.svg" /> <img width="1875" height="2300" width_o="1875" height_o="2300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f71f817fc2a82f506d52013acca0a10f6643853e295fe407e5e02c99def9b71/vertical.svg" data-mid="138517094" border="0" alt="VEL IACULIS" data-caption="VEL IACULIS" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f71f817fc2a82f506d52013acca0a10f6643853e295fe407e5e02c99def9b71/vertical.svg" /> CONNECT https://fire-as-site.com/CONNECT Mon, 04 Apr 2022 01:58:59 +0000 FIRE AS SITE https://fire-as-site.com/CONNECT SAY HELLO Send me an email at studio@kelly-sinclair.com