When Ian Boyden ’95 first stood in the black landscape of still-standing charcoal spires of the Okanogan National Forest in Washington state, he said “Everything was black. The entire forest charred. Waiting. It had become ink. I stood inside this catastrophic Chinese landscape painting, transfixed by the musculature of the trees revealed and shaped by fire. They had drawn themselves on the sky.” The exhibition Tripod Complex presents monumental scrolls that reveal both the trophic and catastrophic legacies of fire. A meditation on the emotional complexity of the forms, in the remains of ancient trees Mr. Boyden began to see a transformation of self, a profound cessation, and an insight into the Buddhist doctrine of no self.