The real world, this existence being engulfed in flames, contrasts against the characters' daydreams of better lives with their more peaceful pastel palette, solid but fragile like reflections on the top of a lake.
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The fiery palette is slightly otherworldly and she deploys blues with precision, breaking things up and drawing focus. Pattison's colors permeate each page, the purples, reds, and oranges setting the mood, tone, and aesthetic, and becoming more intense as the stakes rise. It may seem obvious to key into the "Wildfire" portion of the title visually, but it makes sense, especially when pulled off this well.
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It's the same trap that will likely keep them there, or bring them back, until the day they die. And, as much as Ma chooses not to think about it at first, the carceral system stacked against the vulnerable is the trap that brought these women to where they are, risking their lives for a nominal fee while protecting the private property of those who routinely contribute and benefit from that system. For Ma, her decades spent fighting these fires is likely the trap that allowed for the deadly four-stage hazard growing in her body to take root. As the beetle infestation and drought set the stage for wildfires, mankind's decades of inaction regarding climate change was the trap that set the stage for wildfires growing from a seasonal hazard to a year-round danger.
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Ma expands that reasoning to apply to all manner of other circumstances, personal and global, some more subtly than others.