← Back to Earth
Sequoia grove after fire — charred trunks standing, seedlings emerging from ash, golden light through opened canopy A city after fire — charred building frames like tree trunks, new construction emerging from the ash like seedlings The city rebuilt — fresh wood rising from charred foundations, kilns firing, people living among the cycle After the second fire — the clay survived, the kilns are already firing, fresh timber rising from prepared foundations

The sequoia cannot reproduce without fire.

Neither can this.

They built knowing it would burn. They built anyway.

The city that accepts fire has never existed.

Every piece of it has.