An immersive video installation and companion exhibition of print and sculptural works made from research materials. The video installation is a simulacrum of an imaginary beachfront that follows a smoke plume formed by the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. As it drifts towards the imaginary beach of Costabel, the plume sings to the audience and then begins to recite a passage from Loren Eiseley’s The Starthrower. The work is a reimagining of a pivotal moment within our collective culture, one that decoupled our dreams from reality and saw a tragedy play out in real-time on TV at a moment when cable news was beginning to offer instant and perpetual access to information about the world. It was moment that served to question the limits of humanity’s technological progress.