In Artifacts of a Fire, charred tree trunks salvaged from recent California wildfires are raised upright and mounted in concrete. Select sections are encased in shaped steel - a figurative armor. Though transformed, the trees retain their presence as elements of the landscape. Blackened and scarred, they stand as quiet sentinels, bearing witness to destruction and endurance.

This series considers fire not only as loss, but as a force that alters and reveals. The burned wood carries evidence of rupture and survival, resilience and vulnerability. By elevating these remnants, the work examines the strength of nature and the human impulse to protect and rebuild - asking what remains, and what can emerge, after devastation.