Burn Your Fire was exhibited at the Gardiner Museum at the 12 Trees exhibition in 2016.

This tree speaks to the natural cycle of growth and devastation enacted by forest fire in Canada’s taiga biome. It is a hybrid silhouette of the native jack pine, black spruce, and balsam fir, species that are touched by fire during their life-cycles, and play distinct economic roles in Canada. The jack pine is an iconic tree symbolic of Canadian wilderness, represented frequently in Group of Seven paintings. The balsam fir is the cultivated Christmas tree, farmed on tree plantations for seasonal consumption. The black spruce forms most of the Canadian taiga, the largest intact forest in the world, and a biome cyclically renewed by forest fires. Through this work, D&S Projects calls attention to the devastating forest fires in western Canada, and the tenuous relationship that we have to our environment. While forest fires are a part of the natural ecological cycle, anthropogenic climate change has amplified natural events to catastrophic proportions.