Before there were 10-hour fireplace videos on TV, there were fake fire logs in chimney-less homes across America. “Why have the mess, hassle—and the danger!—of fire in your home when you can enjoy a warm and realistic glow without ever having to sweep up ashes or gather wood?” Yes! And in Helen Altman’s inert facsimile of a giant bonfire, more is more: more plastic, more electrical cords, and more bits of real logs that don’t burn. It’s a massive, somewhat comic altarpiece, seducing our inner moths and our need to gather around a hearth. Any hearth.