Escudilla Mountain sits above the horizon like the hump on the back of a grizzly bear. In fact, the last grizzly in the Southwest was killed on its flanks in 1936. Escudilla was also burned over by the largest wildfire in Arizona history, over a half of a million acres in the 2011 Wallow fire.

Escudilla Ember represents a new portrait of this mountain. Hundreds of collected charred ponderosa pine limb appendages stand vertically surrounding a pile of pure yellow ponderosa pine pollen. A mummified hummingbird – a symbol of hope, healing and resilience – twirls silently above.