California is a land of extremes—where fire scorches and water vanishes, where beauty and destruction exist side by side. STATE OF FIRE is an artistic meditation on the climate crisis through the lens of one place, told in two parts: fire and water. These elements shape not only the land, but the lives, dreams, and struggles of those who call it home.

Through personal narrative, ancestral memory, and ecological truth, this book invites the reader to see beyond the flames and the water scarcity—to the systems that created them, and the possibilities that remain. It is a call to grieve, to reckon, and to imagine a future rooted in balance, justice, and protection of the earth.