Artist-produced recordings of Jack London’s short story “To Build a Fire,” in the original English and Greek translation, are played back on speaker drivers arrayed to be just within earshot of each other. The sounds of these readings are sent to the receiver not by cable, but by visible laser, so that a viewer’s passage through the work will interrupt the transmission. The words and meanings are subject to the subtractive effects of passage through the environment – from both dust and observers. The substance of the narrative — which tells of a journey through a powerful and wild natural environment — is experienced here in the guise of many analogues - as text, as audio, as light, as environment, and as somatic experience.