If the catastrophe has just occurred, then Smoke is the indefinite suspension of time between the event and its aftermath. Smoke can signal appearance or disappearance, an unknown trauma, a well-regulated military, or a rupture that you've just missed seeing by seconds. Derived from images of destruction that circulate through the digital landscape, it serves as a screen or front for the discreet management of illusion—not unlike a magician’s stage effect. Smoke can represent any process that is still underway, releasing stored energy and dispersing its fragments. In some ways, this mimes Suitcase's own dispersal of meaning into the minds of a crowd. This meaning shifts with the weather, is carried far afield from the site, and is just as reversible.