Resulting from an investigation that David Claerbout develops about the value of images, the search for optical truth and the technical developments of their 3D manipulation, this work explores the computational power necessary to simulate an artificial and detailed "still life". As in previous works, Claerbout challenges the naturally unattainable by allowing the observer to access, through digital media, realities impossible to experience in any other way.

- Wildfire (meditation on fire)
is a slow-paced, circular narrative video depicting a green forest and other natural elements in which the unexpected action of a forest fire unfolds. Composed by slow frames and a prolonged silence, this video seems to evoke the abstraction of the portrayed matter itself, slowing down and dragging the visual experience that contradicts the very idea of a linear perception of time. This way, the understanding of the authenticity of images as they are constructed in the current era are challenged, accentuating the tension between what is analog and what is digital.

When projected into the fire, the observer is confronted with an illusory reality, since the biological programming inherent to living creatures, triggers a reflection that promotes the instinct for self-reliance and drives away dangers that may compromise their safety. In contrast, when the action of meditation is called for, it is created in an unusual and impractical situation.

In the artist's words, an image is always composed of surface and perplexity. The surface of the image is what extends to the ends of the frame and perplexity, on the other hand, implies that the message travels faster than its understanding, making those who observe it stop. This work therefore seems to provide a hypnotic state by bringing together the beauty that lies in the tragic natural and the technical but fictitious virtue of the digital, in the construction of a fire that never existed.