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Gathered September 10, 2022, this web was weighted with the ashes of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, the forest remains carried by an easterly wind to Portland, Oregon. This piece documents the Double Creek Fire, detected 8/30/2022 and active in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest and Hells Canyon National Recreation Area along the Imnaha River corridor. More broadly, it documents global conditions contributing to the increased incidence of wildfires worldwide: namely, climate change. It gestures to a cause. These ash-laden webs are urns, holders of the remains of a world. They are a pause and a portrait. Our world is burning, in part as a consequence of our choices as a species–our options for alternate choices constrained by arbitrary borders (nation, race, gender). These borders are impeding our awareness of ourselves as a species, or whole, sharing a small planet engulfed by intraverseable space. These webs are messages from the future. They speak to interconnectedness and th