Lingering Smoke
Lingering Smoke is an installation that remembers the Thirty Mile Fire through the words it left behind. It tells the story of a past tragedy that shaped the small town of Twisp, Washington, and emerges out of a warehouse damaged by the fire. Inside the installation, individual voices and stories cut into suspended strips appear fragmented, each telling a different story of the fire. From the outside, the density of stories blends to tell a unified story of the fire. People can experience the contrast between fire as a contained mass, while standing outside the installation, and as an engulfing presence, when standing within the dense mass of stories. Voices of survivors fade quietly between the sounds of crackling embers.
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Additional Contributors
Robin Yoo
Warren Pope
Henry Sohn
Designer
Claire WolfMedia
