Forest//Fire Project

In 2020, I was asked to contribute a work of art for a very timely public art show called Forest//Fire. I created a piece titled Reverence that illustrates both the beauty and horror of a smoke-filled sky. Calling on my family’s experience being evacuated from our home during the previous fire season, this work explores the intersection of reverence, fear and wonder.

The FOREST⇌FIRE Project invites the people of the Truckee Tahoe region into the captivating story of the Sierra Nevada Forest’s 13,000-year relationship with fire and the surprising and essential role humans play within it, affecting forest, watershed, and our own well-being, from the past into the future.

It aims to inspire a broad community conversation about fire and catastrophic fire in the Sierra Nevada Forest, and what can be done to help the Forest, the watersheds and ourselves become resilient into the future.

Presented to the people of the Truckee-Tahoe region of California, the FOREST⇌FIRE project is a partnership between Nevada County Arts Council, Truckee-Donner Recreation and Park District, and University of California, Berkeley - Sagehen Creek Field Station, with Educational and Environmental Outreach by Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships. FOREST⇌FIRE is created by Michael and Heather Llewellyn.