From website archiving the project:

“In a Time of Change: The Art of Fire (2012) was a visual art project designed generate excitement, facilitate mutual understanding and promote meaningful dialogue on issues related to fire science and society. The interaction between artists, fire managers and scientists promoted understanding and awareness of the scientific basis behind fire management practices in the context of Alaska's changing ecosystems.

Nine local artists were invited to embrace the inspiration of wildfire, fire science and fire management to create a unique art exhibit. “In a Time of Change: The Art of Fire” is funded by the Joint Fire Science Program and was developed by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) and the Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research Station” (https://www.frames.gov/afsc/projects/art-of-fire).

Statement on the work:

Inside the forest, 'carcasses' of fallen birch from a fire years ago grabbed my attention- the way the birch skins, still intact, seemed to wrinkle up and separate from the core of the tree, which rotted out. While photographing these carcasses strewn about the forest, I began to notice that growing on them or through them were tiny little micro-cosmic landscapes. If I shifted the scale of things, fungi, cladonia and lycopodium were like "trees" in this miniature world, and variants of green peat mosses were like the tundra tussocks or ferny forest floor.

This juxtaposition of macro-landscape and micro-landscape became the basis for my translation of fire on area. On the grand scale, a piece of the forest is suddenly gone, ravaged, dead. There is a hole in the ecosystem defined by a very specific shape: the shape of a fire's path and girth. It is not a vacuum, however. For in that space, on a smaller scale, whole new miniature landscapes emerge and they begin to fill the void.