As the climate warms, fires are increasing in size and frequency. In the US, the fires that command most of the media’s attention occur in the west and southwest, but most states have some number of wildfires every year. In Michigan, for example, the state’s Departent of Natural Resources in 2020 responded to 203 wildfires that combined burned 960 acres. Although the striking images of burning landscapes are widely viewed, the aftermath of fires – and especially the decades-to-centuries of landscape regrowth – is documented much less frequently. We propose to photo-document the chronosequence of burn plots and explore how what we see in the forest is conditioned by our expectations and constrained by our visual systems. By photographing the burn plots from identical vantage points and in a range of wavelengths (visible, ultraviolet, infrared), we will create a portfolio of work that asks the question: does our reliance on reflcted light in the normal visual range of humans (380–750 nm) create a metaphorical mirror of our own, limited vision; a mirror that constrains our imagination and defines our interpretation of “recovery” or “regrowth” of burned forests.