Here are my Burning Man 2023 Photos! There are one octillion photos on this page. Please be patient while this page loads. It might take 10 minutes or more to load this page depending on your system and whether or not my servers are melting… For reals! This page is hundreds of megabytes and absolutely shouldn’t be. If you use the Safari browser it will probably tell you the page uses too much memory lol. Page is a thiccccboi. Sorry not sorry! All of my Burning Man images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial license. If you share them, please attribute the photographs to me by name and link back here to Duncan.co That’s all just a fancy way of saying you cannot sell my photographs, make prints of them, or make money from them in any way whatsoever. That includes advertising on a website.
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Burning Man Official Logo 2023Stiffhenge – Winner of the Official Mud Art Championships 2023! Congratulations!Gate Road ExodusGate Road ExodusSkate or DieChapel of Babel (Burn) by Michael Garlington from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Chapel of Babel (Burn) by Michael Garlington from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Chapel of Babel (Burn) by Michael Garlington from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Chapel of Babel (Burn) by Michael Garlington from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Mutant Vehicles at the Man BurnMutant Vehicle at the Man BurnMutant Vehicle at the Man BurnMutant Vehicle at the Man BurnMutant Vehicle at the Man BurnMutant Vehicle at the Man BurnMutant Vehicles at the Man BurnMutant Vehicle at the Man BurnParticipants Watch The Man BurnThe Sky Rabbit’s House at The Man BurnMutant Vehicle at the Man BurnSilhouette of Participants at The Man BurnSilhouette of Participants at The Man BurnMutant Vehicle at the Man BurnThe Bug at The Man BurnThe Temple, The Man Burn, and Exodus LineFireworks at The Man BurnBurst of Flames at the Man BurnFireworks at The Man BurnFireworks at The Man BurnFireworks at The Man BurnFireworks at The Man BurnFireworks at The Man BurnFireworks at The Man BurnFireworks at The Man BurnFireworks at The Man BurnFireworks at The Man BurnFireworks at The Man BurnFireworks at The Man BurnFireworks at The Man BurnFireworks at The Man BurnFireworks at The Man BurnMutant Vehilces at the Man BurnLovely BurnerMutant Vehilces before the Man BurnThere Will Be Mud – Mona by Miao He
from: Shehong, China
year: 2023
“Mona” is an 8-meter tall metal rabbit sculpture, resembling a plush toy with a pink exterior, standing gracefully in the desert landscape. Representing the theme of ANIMALIA, the installation serves as a symbol of love, warmth, and childhood memories. As participants gather around “Mona,” they engage to have deep connection between each other. At night, illuminated by lights, the pink rabbit becomes a recognizable landmark. The artwork aims to transport Burners into a whimsical world, reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland, where the rabbit guides them on a journey filled with hope, inclusiveness, and freedom.
URL: http://infinite.landThere Will Be Mud – Mona by Miao He
from: Shehong, China
year: 2023
“Mona” is an 8-meter tall metal rabbit sculpture, resembling a plush toy with a pink exterior, standing gracefully in the desert landscape. Representing the theme of ANIMALIA, the installation serves as a symbol of love, warmth, and childhood memories. As participants gather around “Mona,” they engage to have deep connection between each other. At night, illuminated by lights, the pink rabbit becomes a recognizable landmark. The artwork aims to transport Burners into a whimsical world, reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland, where the rabbit guides them on a journey filled with hope, inclusiveness, and freedom.
URL: http://infinite.landMutant Vehicles Parked for The Man BurnEl Pulpo MagnificoEl Pulpo MagnificoTemple and RidgelineFlying Low at The Trash FenceFlying Low at The Trash FenceFlying Low at The Trash FencePoint 3City Limits by Lucas Reshi and Crew
Quote from from the artists via instagram:
This one’s for you tigre
I know that the temple here at burningman is traditionally where people go to have their cathartic release of loved ones that passed, but at the end of the day writing a few words and putting your photo up wasn’t enough. It wasn’t enough because my memory of us was so full of creation and mischief. As a result this is the year I brought out my first art piece. I put it where we always wanted our work; out by the trash fence in the “quiet” All this done off the books in the dark of the night just as a middle finger to the placement team that always promised us deep playa and always resinded their word because “your work was too good”, but I needed to be able to whisper into the night to you, “I fuckin got em’ for us tigre” I hope that you have found the quiet we always looked for with art together.
You taught me that nothing is impossible with the help of friends and I couldn’t have done it without this community of salty dogs.
Tigre, you should have been here to dance with me under the lights and I miss you more than ever but I’m just getting started and have so much more to do before the lights finally go out for good.
Oh ya, the name of the piece is city limits
I couldn’t have done it without @theywire coming up with the most immaculate of lighting, and a special thank you to @hoboerotic and @thea.rae for running to reno in the middle of the night to dig telephone poles out of @lostmachineandy bone yard.
There are so many more to name
If you tag the piece #citylimitsbrc
#burningman #butningman2023 #burningmanart #renegadeartCity Limits by Lucas Reshi and Crew (PLEASE DONT DO THIS ON PLAYA)
Quote from from the artists via instagram:
This one’s for you tigre
I know that the temple here at burningman is traditionally where people go to have their cathartic release of loved ones that passed, but at the end of the day writing a few words and putting your photo up wasn’t enough. It wasn’t enough because my memory of us was so full of creation and mischief. As a result this is the year I brought out my first art piece. I put it where we always wanted our work; out by the trash fence in the “quiet” All this done off the books in the dark of the night just as a middle finger to the placement team that always promised us deep playa and always resinded their word because “your work was too good”, but I needed to be able to whisper into the night to you, “I fuckin got em’ for us tigre” I hope that you have found the quiet we always looked for with art together.
You taught me that nothing is impossible with the help of friends and I couldn’t have done it without this community of salty dogs.
Tigre, you should have been here to dance with me under the lights and I miss you more than ever but I’m just getting started and have so much more to do before the lights finally go out for good.
Oh ya, the name of the piece is city limits
I couldn’t have done it without @theywire coming up with the most immaculate of lighting, and a special thank you to @hoboerotic and @thea.rae for running to reno in the middle of the night to dig telephone poles out of @lostmachineandy bone yard.
There are so many more to name
If you tag the piece #citylimitsbrc
#burningman #butningman2023 #burningmanart #renegadeartChapel of Babel by Michael Garlington
from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]BitCube by Colin O’Donnell
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
BitCube is an interactive installation that transforms 224 standard IBC water totes into single pixels in a massive low-resolution cube display towering 30 feet over the desert. The installation creates a minimalist, abstract visual narrative that defies the ubiquity of hi-res displays. BitCube embraces the limitations of a low-res medium and encourages viewers to find beauty in simplicity. The installation’s audio-reactive capabilities reflect the collective heartbeat of the Burning Man community. Light patterns range from abstract shapes to minimalist representations of life and energy, resonating with Burning Man’s spirit of creativity, self-expression, and community in a stripped-down interplay of light, space, and perception.
Contact: [email protected]BitCube by Colin O’Donnell
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
BitCube is an interactive installation that transforms 224 standard IBC water totes into single pixels in a massive low-resolution cube display towering 30 feet over the desert. The installation creates a minimalist, abstract visual narrative that defies the ubiquity of hi-res displays. BitCube embraces the limitations of a low-res medium and encourages viewers to find beauty in simplicity. The installation’s audio-reactive capabilities reflect the collective heartbeat of the Burning Man community. Light patterns range from abstract shapes to minimalist representations of life and energy, resonating with Burning Man’s spirit of creativity, self-expression, and community in a stripped-down interplay of light, space, and perception.
Contact: [email protected]BitCube by Colin O’Donnell
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
BitCube is an interactive installation that transforms 224 standard IBC water totes into single pixels in a massive low-resolution cube display towering 30 feet over the desert. The installation creates a minimalist, abstract visual narrative that defies the ubiquity of hi-res displays. BitCube embraces the limitations of a low-res medium and encourages viewers to find beauty in simplicity. The installation’s audio-reactive capabilities reflect the collective heartbeat of the Burning Man community. Light patterns range from abstract shapes to minimalist representations of life and energy, resonating with Burning Man’s spirit of creativity, self-expression, and community in a stripped-down interplay of light, space, and perception.
Contact: [email protected]BitCube by Colin O’Donnell
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
BitCube is an interactive installation that transforms 224 standard IBC water totes into single pixels in a massive low-resolution cube display towering 30 feet over the desert. The installation creates a minimalist, abstract visual narrative that defies the ubiquity of hi-res displays. BitCube embraces the limitations of a low-res medium and encourages viewers to find beauty in simplicity. The installation’s audio-reactive capabilities reflect the collective heartbeat of the Burning Man community. Light patterns range from abstract shapes to minimalist representations of life and energy, resonating with Burning Man’s spirit of creativity, self-expression, and community in a stripped-down interplay of light, space, and perception.
Contact: [email protected]BitCube by Colin O’Donnell
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
BitCube is an interactive installation that transforms 224 standard IBC water totes into single pixels in a massive low-resolution cube display towering 30 feet over the desert. The installation creates a minimalist, abstract visual narrative that defies the ubiquity of hi-res displays. BitCube embraces the limitations of a low-res medium and encourages viewers to find beauty in simplicity. The installation’s audio-reactive capabilities reflect the collective heartbeat of the Burning Man community. Light patterns range from abstract shapes to minimalist representations of life and energy, resonating with Burning Man’s spirit of creativity, self-expression, and community in a stripped-down interplay of light, space, and perception.
Contact: [email protected]Temple Anam Cara by A Celtic Light and Obsydian Studios creation
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Anam Cara is an ancient Celtic phrase referring to the concept of the “soul friend” in spirituality. Temple Anam Cara intertwines a Celtic Tree of Life upon an Aztec Step Pyramid, an homage to the ancestral heritages of our co-creators. The shared belief in this concept has inspired the creation of this sculpture. We recognize that the path of wisdom is woven by countless cultures and civilizations, each offering unique insights into the nature of existence – to celebrate the shared connections of our Soul Friends that have guided and inspired deeper connections to the universe’s beauty. At the heart of Temple Anam Cara lies a deep belief in the unity of love, light, and consciousness—a recognition that all ancient traditions converge in their quest for higher truth. The base sanctuary is adorned by murals, mirrors and LEDs to welcome all to offered experiences. This sculpture is a creation in honor of the indigenous wisdom embraced by the creators of Temple Anam Cara, a shared expression of love of community, life and earth.
www.templeanamcara.com
URL: https://obsydianstudios.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple Anam Cara by A Celtic Light and Obsydian Studios creation
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Anam Cara is an ancient Celtic phrase referring to the concept of the “soul friend” in spirituality. Temple Anam Cara intertwines a Celtic Tree of Life upon an Aztec Step Pyramid, an homage to the ancestral heritages of our co-creators. The shared belief in this concept has inspired the creation of this sculpture. We recognize that the path of wisdom is woven by countless cultures and civilizations, each offering unique insights into the nature of existence – to celebrate the shared connections of our Soul Friends that have guided and inspired deeper connections to the universe’s beauty. At the heart of Temple Anam Cara lies a deep belief in the unity of love, light, and consciousness—a recognition that all ancient traditions converge in their quest for higher truth. The base sanctuary is adorned by murals, mirrors and LEDs to welcome all to offered experiences. This sculpture is a creation in honor of the indigenous wisdom embraced by the creators of Temple Anam Cara, a shared expression of love of community, life and earth.
www.templeanamcara.com
URL: https://obsydianstudios.com/
Contact: [email protected]Chapel of Babel by: Michael Garlington from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Narwhal Mutant VehiclePreparing The Man to Burn – They did an incredible job given the constraints.The Usual Suspects Line Up For A Modest Man BurnStrike PileBig Stuck TruckWe had a wonderful discussion. Thank you for that.Containers and Globe Fire – When I’m shooting and nobody is around I often stumble across these scense and I’m like what the hell is this? A cool fireplace and containers with windows and a chimney like what?Global Village – I wish I had visited this camp before the rain.Challenging To Move Around – It was hard to just walk around let alone carry a bunch of stuff.Road Conditions Evolve – Watching the road conditions evolve was interesting. From underwater, to footprints, to clumpy chunks, to sidewalk formation, to whatever the roads forming again. This was 630.Stuck In The MudBurner Express Check InImprovise Adapt OvercomeVehicles Leaving BRC – Some stuck some moving slowly.6 Was A Bad Route – If you ever find yourself in this situation never take 6. In fact just waiting it out is the sensible thing to do. Part of self reliance is having a buffer in your schedule for things like this.Stucck In The Mud on 6Stucck In The Mud on 6Muck Ur Burn – White van stuck in the mud on 6.Expanse
by: Laurence Renzo Verbeck
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Expanse takes Vitruvian Man as a starting point, and subverts it. The figure is female, no longer bound by geometry; the arms, morphing to wings, extend beyond. She is forward of, and greater than the circle, growing out of the ring into something other. New and limitless experience. Geometry is the basis of art and language, it is the starting point of who we are as a species. But it is not the end of who we are. Expanse is a reminder that our solace and burgeoning reside in both the honoring and challenging of geometry. That we live best when we become the ground where rigidity and expansion meet and resolve.
Contact: [email protected]Road Conditions Evolve on 6Road Conditions Evolve on 6 and E Looking Toward GateRoad Conditions Near Center Camp on 6Man Made Sidewalks Turned Back Into RoadsLooking for Friends – This person lost their friends and was trying to reconnect.Bike Tire Mucked Up – This is what happens when you ride yiur bike on wet playa. It stops working immediately and becomes very heavy.Real Stars and the TempleReal Stars and the TempleUnderwater Man – When I was shooting at night during and after the rain there was almost nothing lit up. Only battery powered installations had light as most of the generators hadn’t been topped up. It was very dark out there.POLYHEDRA Sky Portal Series by Gregg Fleishman
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2023
Scattered POLYHEDRA form Sky Portals embodying the shapes of sacred geometry. Focusing on the cubic varieties, networks of these POLYHEDRA fill space. Transforming the surfaces and edges into panels and parts gives us a structural assembly which fills space. Assembled from varieties of identical parts the multi-portal pieces are representative of a Caterpillar and a Bear.
URL: http://www.greggfleishman.com
Contact: [email protected]Playing with Fire at the ManAnother Rainbow – 630 and A630 and A Looking Toward Center CampWhat a Fun MessSome Vehicles are Better Suited to the ConditionsEsplanadeFrog Camp and EsplanadeThe Sky Rabbit’s House and CrewBunnie and The Sky Rabbit’s HouseBunnie and The Sky Rabbit’s HouseMoop Pickup – These guys from Japan didn’t speak much english but when I pointed at the bags they said MOOP. I gave them a nod of approval and a thumbs up. Hell yeah.Pedestrians on 6 SIdewalksSo cool to meet you all. Thanks for non-alcoholic drink and the chat.Emergency ServicesA Message To Sensationalist Media – I was invited into a nice camp and we had a discussion about how the news media was portyaing the burn in the outside world. The event was being portrayed as some kind of disaster when the reality on the ground couldn’t have been farther from it. So these burners had a message to the media generating sensationalist clickbait.Burners Hold Hands as they Cross the StreetThis wonderful person gave me a hug and was very nice.Cascade – When you get your vehicle stuck in the middle of an intersection it makes it harder for people doing actual work to get around. This causes a cascade of issues. Heavy equipment can’t be positioned and that slows or stops other stuff from happening and so on down the line.So great to chat with you.7 and GThe Work Gets Done No Matter WhatRV StuckYet Another Stuck VehicleLovely BurnerRV Art – Hope they remembered to remove that chain. Always a good idea to walk around your rig at least one time every time you move.Burner Pulling a SuitcasePorta Potties – The floor got higher and higher with every person who stepped inside.The look on this person’s face when doing strike in this mess. Exhaustion mixed with bewilderment and a side of what the fuck just happened?Mutant Vehicle with Disco Ball – Name UnknownIt was fascinating to watch the community come up with solutions to footwear.Camp FacadeThis person was picking up pieces of MOOP as he walked out. Legit.Suitcase Wheel – A burner holds a suitcase wheel that broke off.Lovely Burner – Thank you for showing me your art!Stuck in the MuckYou Forgot Your Bikes and Your Trash – SMHBurners Walking OutThank God For Rangers – The people in this truck were coming at speed and starting to cut through a camp. A ranger yelled at them and immediately made them stop. The person was in that panic/frantic mode people get in where they start making stupid decisions. The corner of the intersection is off to the right of the counch in this picture. Be less aplogetic and don’t do stupid shit! The people on the left were just hanging out and have nothing to do with this btw.StrikeRoad Conditions Evolve – The clump phase.I sat down and took a real genuine break for like 20 minutes. I got to chat with some really nice folks at the Cactus of Life chairs. This was the only time during the burn that I sat down and didn’t actually do anything. Every other moment of the burn I was either shooting or meeting with people or doing camp stuff. It was a real nice break. Two of the people chatting here realized they both play and sign Portuguese music. What are the odds?!Burden of The Beast
by: Walker Babington
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2023
“Burden of The Beast,” is a fantastical folk art sculpture depicting a bison with a house at its torso. It symbolizes the task of relocating one’s intrinsic understanding of ‘home.’
Both the bison & the house are made with materials from New Orleans structures which have been destroyed by climate disasters, as though the pieces of a fallen home had the sentience and will to collect what could be salvaged, stand up, and head toward higher ground.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sabatomstudios/
Contact: [email protected]Burden of The Beast
by: Walker Babington
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2023
“Burden of The Beast,” is a fantastical folk art sculpture depicting a bison with a house at its torso. It symbolizes the task of relocating one’s intrinsic understanding of ‘home.’
Both the bison & the house are made with materials from New Orleans structures which have been destroyed by climate disasters, as though the pieces of a fallen home had the sentience and will to collect what could be salvaged, stand up, and head toward higher ground.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sabatomstudios/
Contact: [email protected]Burden of The Beast
by: Walker Babington
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2023
“Burden of The Beast,” is a fantastical folk art sculpture depicting a bison with a house at its torso. It symbolizes the task of relocating one’s intrinsic understanding of ‘home.’
Both the bison & the house are made with materials from New Orleans structures which have been destroyed by climate disasters, as though the pieces of a fallen home had the sentience and will to collect what could be salvaged, stand up, and head toward higher ground.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sabatomstudios/
Contact: [email protected]Burden of The Beast
by: Walker Babington
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2023
“Burden of The Beast,” is a fantastical folk art sculpture depicting a bison with a house at its torso. It symbolizes the task of relocating one’s intrinsic understanding of ‘home.’
Both the bison & the house are made with materials from New Orleans structures which have been destroyed by climate disasters, as though the pieces of a fallen home had the sentience and will to collect what could be salvaged, stand up, and head toward higher ground.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sabatomstudios/
Contact: [email protected]Great to chat with you! I found a new way to link art and data with AI as per our discussion. Email me!This person showed me some of his photographs from past burns. Thank you.The Ursas by: Jen Lewin from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2023
Named after the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, The Ursas features two towering polar bears. In 2022, Ursa Minor, a 13-foot tall sculpture debuted on playa. Inspired by Polaris, the work’s glowing and multi-paneled infinity-mirrored body reminds us to “Look Up.”
In 2023 Ursa Minor will return, but this time with her big sister. Standing over three stories tall, Ursa Major’s hollow body is filled with glowing infinity mirrors, each reflecting mosaic drawings of extinct animals from the past 12 months.
The pair, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, stand in solidarity.
Ursa Minor in hope, looking up.
Ursa Major, as a cathedral and tomb, to species lost.
URL: https://www.jenlewinstudio.com/portfolio/ursa-minor/
Contact: [email protected]The Ursas by: Jen Lewin from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2023
Named after the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, The Ursas features two towering polar bears. In 2022, Ursa Minor, a 13-foot tall sculpture debuted on playa. Inspired by Polaris, the work’s glowing and multi-paneled infinity-mirrored body reminds us to “Look Up.”
In 2023 Ursa Minor will return, but this time with her big sister. Standing over three stories tall, Ursa Major’s hollow body is filled with glowing infinity mirrors, each reflecting mosaic drawings of extinct animals from the past 12 months.
The pair, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, stand in solidarity.
Ursa Minor in hope, looking up.
Ursa Major, as a cathedral and tomb, to species lost.
URL: https://www.jenlewinstudio.com/portfolio/ursa-minor/
Contact: [email protected]The Ursas by: Jen Lewin from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2023
Named after the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, The Ursas features two towering polar bears. In 2022, Ursa Minor, a 13-foot tall sculpture debuted on playa. Inspired by Polaris, the work’s glowing and multi-paneled infinity-mirrored body reminds us to “Look Up.”
In 2023 Ursa Minor will return, but this time with her big sister. Standing over three stories tall, Ursa Major’s hollow body is filled with glowing infinity mirrors, each reflecting mosaic drawings of extinct animals from the past 12 months.
The pair, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, stand in solidarity.
Ursa Minor in hope, looking up.
Ursa Major, as a cathedral and tomb, to species lost.
URL: https://www.jenlewinstudio.com/portfolio/ursa-minor/
Contact: [email protected]The Ursas by: Jen Lewin from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2023
Named after the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, The Ursas features two towering polar bears. In 2022, Ursa Minor, a 13-foot tall sculpture debuted on playa. Inspired by Polaris, the work’s glowing and multi-paneled infinity-mirrored body reminds us to “Look Up.”
In 2023 Ursa Minor will return, but this time with her big sister. Standing over three stories tall, Ursa Major’s hollow body is filled with glowing infinity mirrors, each reflecting mosaic drawings of extinct animals from the past 12 months.
The pair, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, stand in solidarity.
Ursa Minor in hope, looking up.
Ursa Major, as a cathedral and tomb, to species lost.
URL: https://www.jenlewinstudio.com/portfolio/ursa-minor/
Contact: [email protected]The Ursas by: Jen Lewin from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2023
Named after the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, The Ursas features two towering polar bears. In 2022, Ursa Minor, a 13-foot tall sculpture debuted on playa. Inspired by Polaris, the work’s glowing and multi-paneled infinity-mirrored body reminds us to “Look Up.”
In 2023 Ursa Minor will return, but this time with her big sister. Standing over three stories tall, Ursa Major’s hollow body is filled with glowing infinity mirrors, each reflecting mosaic drawings of extinct animals from the past 12 months.
The pair, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, stand in solidarity.
Ursa Minor in hope, looking up.
Ursa Major, as a cathedral and tomb, to species lost.
URL: https://www.jenlewinstudio.com/portfolio/ursa-minor/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart
by: Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart
by: Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart
by: Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart
by: Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Tribute to Tigre Mashaal-LivelyTemple of the Heart
by: Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart
by: Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart
by: Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart
by: Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart
by: Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart
by: Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart
by: Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart
by: Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart
by: Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]The ManThe ManCloseup of The Man 2023Touch the Sky by Martin Taylor and Chromaforms
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2023
Touch the Sky is a sculpture of a mythical winged creature with the head of a human preparing to take flight. The sculpture is fabricated from a myriad laser-cut sheet metal plates welded together. The face is rendered in sharp detail with eyes closed in dreamlike rapture. The hair flows back in the wind. The skin is made of reflective stainless steel heat treated to a rich gold color. The surface of the sculpture is outlined by geometric tattoo-like perforations that accentuate the shape of the body and emit light at night. Wings made of golden stainless and patina’ed steel stretch upwards from the back in a dramatic pose. Touch the Sky serves as a visual metaphor for taking leaps of faith to achieve our dreams and fly.
URL: https://www.chromaforms.net/
Contact: [email protected]Sidewalk FormationPlaya Mud Art by Matthew SchultzMini Rainbow over Razorback3 and Sunlight on RazorbackVehicles Get Stuck as They Hit Gate RoadThe Man and RainbowTemple of the Heart and RainbowTemple of the Heart and RainbowLovely BurnerBurners on a Golf CartThe Party Continues Despite RainThe Party Continues Despite RainLovely Burner – I hope you liked the tour I gave you sir!Walking Near The TempleTrash Bags on Legs – I prefer just getting muddy to this technique.Rows of Clouds and Playa ArtJíbaro Soy… by Mark Rivera aka Kidnetick
from: Bayamón, Puerto Rico
year: 2023
A large scale sculpture of a shameless Jíbaro reveling where and what its made of, inspired by a song of protest written by composer Raphy Leavitt expresses anti-colonialism and freedom to be respected for whom he is and where his from.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/kidnetick/
Contact: [email protected]Lovely BurnersNosotres by Brenden Darby, Simón Malvaez, Ollie Newth, Evan Connelly, Sergio Garrido-Ramirez, and Cruz Ramirez
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
NOSOTRES is a monument to the ancient history of the queer community. Standing at 50′ tall with depictions of nonbinary faces and Mictlan (The Aztec Underworld) this evolution of our 2022 Burning Man Piece, THEM, Serves as a reminder that queer people have been here since the beginning of time. Queerness represents our past, present and future and we honor the many deaths of our past selves that help us move forward.
Contact: [email protected]Lovely BurnersBurners on Foot – It was interesting to see the playa covered with people walking.RangersThree Happy Burners630 and Mud – If you look closely someone is getting a snack in this picture LMAO.Deceptively Slippery – It may not look like it but the surface under these puddles is almost as slippery as standing on ice. Amazingly, I only fell once.Disco Balls – Another case of I have no idea what this is but it looks neat (to me)Playa Mud Art by Matthew SchultzThe Sun Comes OutTrash Bags On The FeetOn point by Seth Johnson
from: Carson City, NV
year: 2023
The sculpture is the interpretation of the abstracted energy in the power and commitment of the sentinel Canis.Lost and FoundA Ranger Admires the Work of Grant Palmer, Vimala Faith, Vanessa Franking, Espresso Buzz, and others. Thanks to Hank for the correction!Burning Man is Hard – One of the best parts of a burn is figuring out the unexpected and novel challenges that inevitably arise. Like getting around in the mud.Loving The Small Mutant VehiclesBike RecoveryLife is a Circus
by: Sandra Bérubé
from: Vancouver, BC, Canada
year: 2023
An elephant is lifted in the air by an airship filled with a flock of birds. A contortionist, hand-balancing on the elephant’s trunk, analyzes the direction to take. The improbable convoy seems ready to take off. Ropes still anchor it to the ground, and red flags are waving in the wind…
Life is a Circus is inspired by the weight of power dynamics and how lines can get blurred between real and fake, safety versus danger. Relationships, money, work, living situations, and mental and physical health can lift us as much as pull us down. Our supports, or ball and chains, often are not who or what we thought they would be. Here is a tribute to fighting to not fall entirely out of balance and find the strength and courage to harness the madness.
Contact: [email protected]Lovely BurnerBikes Temporarily Parked at 430 and EsplanadeLife Imitates Meme – Absolute legend this man for creating the pre-brun meme IRL!Fun Crew – I don’t know what the name or context of this group but they we’re having fun.Fun Crew – I don’t know what the name or context of this group but they we’re having fun.Death Guild Slip and Slide – It takes a certain level of courage to be presented with a “road closure” on the Esplanade and strip down and hit the slip and slide in front of a crowd in the mud. Bravo to this young lady!Death Guild Slip and Slide – It takes a certain level of courage to be presented with a “road closure” on the Esplanade and strip down and hit the slip and slide in front of a crowd in the mud. People are amazing. Bravo to this man!Death Guild Slip and Slide – It takes a certain level of courage to be presented with a “road closure” on the Esplanade and strip down and hit the slip and slide in front of a crowd in the mud. People are amazing. Bravo to this man!NON JUDGEMENT DAY IS COMINGBurners Adjust Their New FootwearLovely Burner – Always a pleasure to see you!Desire LinesLovely Burner – Thanks for the chat!Some Vehicles Leaving Others StuckEsplanade SidewalkEveryone Kept to the Sides – I think thas is 4BWB and PedestriansLive Music at ReverbiaLive Music at ReverbiaLive Music at ReverbiaWhere’s Waldo Clean Socks Edition – Find the clean socks and figure out why. This is me getting bored editing 20,000+ photos.Burner Riding Bike in MudThat Weird In-Between – Some areas still waterlogged with other areas dry and crumbling and too rough on barefeet.The Solar Library Phase 2 by Jared Ficklin & The Other Singularity
from: Austin, TX
year: 2023
The Solar Library is a rhythmic repetition of triangular yellow huts with bright sun orange doors. The steel framed huts present solar panels at an ideal angle to the sun. At night they bathe in soft yellow light reminiscent of the sunlight collected all day.
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Each is a self-contained 1600 Watt solar charging supporting other art projects. Instead of generators artists buy batteries & charge them each day at The Solar Library. This allows artists to convert to solar power without the cost, fumes & engineering of placing panels next to their art.
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A whisperia flower out front tells the story of the art projects in each unit when a handle is cranked like a music box for spoken word.
URL: http://www.solarlibrary.info
Contact: [email protected]Elder Mother by Charles A. Gadeken
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Elder Mother is inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, the Elder-Tree-Mother. The boy in the story meets the Elder-Tree-Mother, who sits atop an Elder-Tree that grew out of the teapot next to his bed (in his dream). She speaks with him, and they go on many adventures and explorations over time. She gathers memories and shared experiences. She illuminates and night and provides shade during the day. Come and listen to her story.
URL: https://www.charlesgadeken.com/
Contact: [email protected]Elder Mother by Charles A. Gadeken
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Elder Mother is inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, the Elder-Tree-Mother. The boy in the story meets the Elder-Tree-Mother, who sits atop an Elder-Tree that grew out of the teapot next to his bed (in his dream). She speaks with him, and they go on many adventures and explorations over time. She gathers memories and shared experiences. She illuminates and night and provides shade during the day. Come and listen to her story.
URL: https://www.charlesgadeken.com/
Contact: [email protected]The Party ContinuesFunkadelephantLovely BurnerAbandoned One WheelBurning Man Disaster Flood Of Doom Survivors Barely AliveSolar Mud – At least the rain cleaned the solar panels!Burner Carrying a Muddy BikeWater on Playa Near Center CampStruggling With A BikeLarge Pool of Water Near Center CampTwo Burners Wait Out The Rain – Waiting out the rain get’s boring. These participants spent some of their time chatting with people dumb enough to be out in the rain. AKA me. Nice to meet you!Two Burners Push a Bike Covered in Playa MudEmergency Services Driving Through MudOne hnaded Ice Run in the Mud – Some ice runs are more challenging than others!Lovely Burner – Great artists make art regardless of the conditions. Nice to see you again Matthew.Lovely Burner – Great artists make art regardless of the conditions. Nice to see you again Matthew.Vertical Pano 1 by 5The ManThe Man and the SunBackside of The ManBackside of The ManSo Many FootprintsTemple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]You Get Taller with Each Step!Road ConditionsNice Shoes – Or are they boots?!Road ConditionsScott London – Scott is a long time friend and very talented photographer. This is the face he makes after a grueling but succesful shoot. When conditions are this bad, you just laugh and make the most of it. It was such a coincidence to run into him at a random camp we both happened to be visting!
Scott has a GREAT new book on Burning Man which you can see here: https://amzn.to/3FcbBWO
Check out more of Scott’s work here:
https://www.scottlondon.com
Love you Scotty!Another RainbowRoad ConditionsMuddy Strike Is MuddyRoad ConditionsRanger ReflectionTea CatMeow630 and LakeFrog Camp – If anyone knows the story behind this fill me in. They did so much work on this.Rolling Fog – Not something you usually see on playa!Frog CampOHM by: Wizard from: Oakland, CA
year: 2023
Ohm looks like a 12 foot silver donut. Stainless curved tubes wrap around to form its shell. The donut is suspended to allow viewing from all the way around. Walking around the object creates visual patterns as the curved lines overlap.
URL: https://rainbowgeometric.com/#/ohm-2023/Mutant Vehicle On Chalks – If you have a mutant vehicle that you can slep in, the next time there is a big rain storm coming just get “stuck” out there in prime real estate. Not saying that happened here but I had that idea when I saw this.Simulated Island Mutant Vehicle Almost Turns Into Actual IslandDMVMedia MeccaEl Diabla by: Crimson Rose and Iron Monkeys
from: Seattle, WA
year: 2023
On the first Monday of the event, Crimson Rose extracts a flame from the sun to light a fire in El Diabla, a special cauldron located in Center Camp. For the flame to continue burning it must be stoked, disturbed and kept alive throughout the entire week. We encourage all those that encounter El Diabla to help keep this flame alive.
Contact: [email protected]On point by Seth Johnson
from: Carson City, NV
year: 2023
The sculpture is the interpretation of the abstracted energy in the power and commitment of the sentinel Canis.On point by Seth Johnson
from: Carson City, NV
year: 2023
The sculpture is the interpretation of the abstracted energy in the power and commitment of the sentinel Canis.Underwater Generator Cables – Underwater generator cables can be very dangerous. Please be extra careful and turn off generators in these scenarios.6Dancing in the MudBack of The ManThe TempleZhina by Morteza Ansari and Konoon Studio
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Zhina was created to honor the women of Iran and the freedom movement they are leading. Zhina (Mahsa) Amini was killed by the morality police for not properly wearing her hijab. Her death sparked one of the most powerful uprisings in history led by women.
Zhina represents the freedom expressed in the hair flowing in the wind that has been a symbol of the movement from the beginning. Panels of red fabric covered with paintings, messages, and poetry created by a number of international artists, create passages for the audiences to explore. The audio/visual content designed to tell a more personal story of the movement. At the heart of the installation there will be an intimate space that will be a place to connect, reflect, share, and heal.
URL: https://zhinaart.com/
Contact: [email protected]Footprints to the Temple – I like how the footprints almost look like a bird or a cross here.Footprints to the TempleCenter CampNo Bikes630 and Rod’s Road630 and ALooking For Light – After a full day of rain the playa was quite dark. So as it continued to downpour I found myself out here in bare feet realizing everything was dark. So I tried to photograph whatever was visible.Tea CatRocket Man 2The Man and Wet Playa at NIghtCouple Walking to The Man in the RainBuild A Seat 2.0 by Mo Osunbor
from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2023
Build A Seat 2.0 is a collective art piece made by Black creatives, intentionally inviting us to contribute their presence, energy and voice to the Burning Man experience.
Each seat will well be created by a Black artist, shining a light to their individual experience at Burning Man.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/buildaseat/
Contact: [email protected]Crystal Cairn by Robert G. Burch
from: Carbondale, CO
year: 2023
Cairns have been a way to mark trails since the beginning of humanity. Its an easily recognizable object not specif to one culture. If you are feeling lost or needing direction, this would be a lovely piece of art to go visit and be with.
URL: https://www.robertburchllc.com/
Contact: [email protected]Serendipity Dispenser by Alicia St Rose Van Granaroli and the Serendipsters
from: Santa Barbara, CA
year: 2023
The Serendipity Dispenser encourages gift giving experiences by providing three components: The experience, the person to gift, and the time window in which to do it. The playa becomes a setting for a delightful scavenger hunt to find that person who will receive your gift.
Contact: [email protected]Elder Mother by Charles A. Gadeken
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Elder Mother is inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, the Elder-Tree-Mother. The boy in the story meets the Elder-Tree-Mother, who sits atop an Elder-Tree that grew out of the teapot next to his bed (in his dream). She speaks with him, and they go on many adventures and explorations over time. She gathers memories and shared experiences. She illuminates and night and provides shade during the day. Come and listen to her story.
URL: https://www.charlesgadeken.com/
Contact: [email protected]Wet Playa at Night and The ManTouch the Sky by Martin Taylor and Chromaforms
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2023
Touch the Sky is a sculpture of a mythical winged creature with the head of a human preparing to take flight. The sculpture is fabricated from a myriad laser-cut sheet metal plates welded together. The face is rendered in sharp detail with eyes closed in dreamlike rapture. The hair flows back in the wind. The skin is made of reflective stainless steel heat treated to a rich gold color. The surface of the sculpture is outlined by geometric tattoo-like perforations that accentuate the shape of the body and emit light at night. Wings made of golden stainless and patina’ed steel stretch upwards from the back in a dramatic pose. Touch the Sky serves as a visual metaphor for taking leaps of faith to achieve our dreams and fly.
URL: https://www.chromaforms.net/
Contact: [email protected]Touch the Sky and the ManThe Man and Wet Playa at NIghtRocket ManBuckets To Catch Rain From Shade Structure – Heaven forbid it gets a little wet! haha!Burners Walking Through Mud and TrailersEl Diabla – Getting warm by the fire was a real treat after being out shooting in the rain for hours and getting completely soaked. This is not a great picture. In fact it’s a super weird image. The person on the left looks like he has a tiny head because it’s someone’s back in front of him. The guy in the back looks like he has a migraine or is losing his mind. There is a random muddy foot in the lower right. Not a great picture bit this moment of warmth was nice so I wanted to remember it. Thanks Crimson / Iron Monkeys.El Diabla Keeping The Flame Alive and Burners Warm
El Diabla by Crimson Rose and Iron Monkeys
from: Seattle, WA
year: 2023
On the first Monday of the event, Crimson Rose extracts a flame from the sun to light a fire in El Diabla, a special cauldron located in Center Camp. For the flame to continue burning it must be stoked, disturbed and kept alive throughout the entire week. We encourage all those that encounter El Diabla to help keep this flame alive.
Contact: [email protected]Vehicle Near Center Camp in the Rain – Including this one to show how hard it was raining. These folks likely had a good reason to be driving here in these conditions.Mud Party!First CampOf a Temporary Nature 2.0 by: P. Michael Quinn
from: Gossburg, TN
year: 2023
Fairy shrimp are strange, almost alien looking crustaceans. Although they only inhabit temporary aquatic habitats, they have been here for millions of years floating on their backs and undulating through life. “Of a Temporary Nature” presents an arial flotilla of large fairy shrimp wind sock sculptures that hopefully entice participants to wonder and draw nearer to their intriguing yet simple forms.
Temporary water gives rise to the fairy shrimp and Black Rock City gives rise to the Burner. We are all of a temporary nature. We should do more to live like fairy shrimp – eat, mate, dance, and accept and enjoy each other’s company as much as possible while our habitats remain as we may not realize the temporary nature of our very own existence.
URL: https://ofatemporarynature.blogspot.com/Nosotres by Brenden Darby, Simón Malvaez, Ollie Newth, Evan Connelly, Sergio Garrido-Ramirez, and Cruz Ramirez
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
NOSOTRES is a monument to the ancient history of the queer community. Standing at 50′ tall with depictions of nonbinary faces and Mictlan (The Aztec Underworld) this evolution of our 2022 Burning Man Piece, THEM, Serves as a reminder that queer people have been here since the beginning of time. Queerness represents our past, present and future and we honor the many deaths of our past selves that help us move forward.
Contact: [email protected]Nosotres by Brenden Darby, Simón Malvaez, Ollie Newth, Evan Connelly, Sergio Garrido-Ramirez, and Cruz Ramirez
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
NOSOTRES is a monument to the ancient history of the queer community. Standing at 50′ tall with depictions of nonbinary faces and Mictlan (The Aztec Underworld) this evolution of our 2022 Burning Man Piece, THEM, Serves as a reminder that queer people have been here since the beginning of time. Queerness represents our past, present and future and we honor the many deaths of our past selves that help us move forward.
Contact: [email protected]Nosotres by Brenden Darby, Simón Malvaez, Ollie Newth, Evan Connelly, Sergio Garrido-Ramirez, and Cruz Ramirez
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
NOSOTRES is a monument to the ancient history of the queer community. Standing at 50′ tall with depictions of nonbinary faces and Mictlan (The Aztec Underworld) this evolution of our 2022 Burning Man Piece, THEM, Serves as a reminder that queer people have been here since the beginning of time. Queerness represents our past, present and future and we honor the many deaths of our past selves that help us move forward.
Contact: [email protected]Exquisite Animalus by KJ Boheme and Stefan Spins
from: New York, NY
year: 2023
What is animal?
Exquisite Animalus moves beyond the physical and allows for fantastical reinterpretation and celebration of earth’s gorgeous biodiversity. Viewing the piece opens a discussion of human’s role within the animal kingdom. Interacting with the Exquisite Animalus affords the participant a God-like ability to design their own creature. Sharing the experience with other contributors allows for the unlocking of the word puzzle which reveals the collective’s secret message of the piece. All roles: viewer, interactor, participant or contributor will be provided an absurd opportunity to create and deepen one’s connection with the building blocks of our Animalus kingdom. Nature is wild and beautiful!
URL: https://kjbowen.art
Contact: [email protected]Cuddle OasisBurners Walk Across Wet PlayaBurners Having Fun in RainThat’s Either an Airport or MarinaA Nude Man And A Naked Man 2Lonely ManThe Man and Wet PlayaRoped off Man and Wet PlayaLake Lahontan Reflections and the Man430 and a bit of Esplanade330 and a bit of EsplanadeWet City and Light in the BackgroundOdyssey by Clayton Blake Art
from: Currumbin Queensland, Australia
year: 2023
ODYSSEY – A 27ft stainless steel RETRO ROCKET. An inhabitable and interactive artwork complete with sound scape and CO2 cannons that mimic the steam explosion of a real spaceship launch. A celebration of our innate desire for EXPLORATION, DISCOVERY, TRAVEL & ADVENTURE.
Contact: [email protected]Burden of The Beast by Walker Babington
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2023
“Burden of The Beast,” is a fantastical folk art sculpture depicting a bison with a house at its torso. It symbolizes the task of relocating one’s intrinsic understanding of ‘home.’
Both the bison & the house are made with materials from New Orleans structures which have been destroyed by climate disasters, as though the pieces of a fallen home had the sentience and will to collect what could be salvaged, stand up, and head toward higher ground.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sabatomstudios/
Contact: [email protected]Elder Mother by Charles A. Gadeken
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Elder Mother is inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, the Elder-Tree-Mother. The boy in the story meets the Elder-Tree-Mother, who sits atop an Elder-Tree that grew out of the teapot next to his bed (in his dream). She speaks with him, and they go on many adventures and explorations over time. She gathers memories and shared experiences. She illuminates and night and provides shade during the day. Come and listen to her story.
URL: https://www.charlesgadeken.com/
Contact: [email protected]Two Burners Venture Out Onto Wet PlayaQuiet Out HereAwakening by Ryan Elmendorf and Nick Geurts
from: Denver, CO
year: 2023
Awakening is both a large scale articulating sculpture and an immersive camera obscura that represents our coming into existence. As a large scale articulating sculpture the piece is comprised of three separate related structures; the head facing toward two hands rising out of the ground.
The human body is the most highly engineered object in existence, a machine of uncountable parts and unfathomable function. Its workings have served as inspiration for all of humanity’s greatest inventions. This work serves as an homage to two most amazing mechanisms in that machine: the human eye and hand. They represent what separates us/life from the rest of the universe, the ability to observe the world around us and manifest change in that world.
URL: https://www.elmendorfgeurts.com/awakening
Contact: [email protected]Center CampThe Journey Aquatic by Mark Dill
from: Fleming Island, FL
year: 2023
The Journey Aquatic is a 5 times life size loggerhead turtle. It is meant to express the joy and wonder of seeing turtles in the ocean. As well as the fragility of the turtles’ lives and the dangers to their existence.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/thejourneyaquatic/
Contact: [email protected]Spot of Sun on the HillsExquisite Animalus by KJ Boheme and Stefan Spins
from: New York, NY
year: 2023
What is animal?
Exquisite Animalus moves beyond the physical and allows for fantastical reinterpretation and celebration of earth’s gorgeous biodiversity. Viewing the piece opens a discussion of human’s role within the animal kingdom. Interacting with the Exquisite Animalus affords the participant a God-like ability to design their own creature. Sharing the experience with other contributors allows for the unlocking of the word puzzle which reveals the collective’s secret message of the piece. All roles: viewer, interactor, participant or contributor will be provided an absurd opportunity to create and deepen one’s connection with the building blocks of our Animalus kingdom. Nature is wild and beautiful!
URL: https://kjbowen.art
Contact: [email protected]The Man and The TempleBeast Man Clouds CactusZhina by Morteza Ansari and Konoon Studio
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Zhina was created to honor the women of Iran and the freedom movement they are leading. Zhina (Mahsa) Amini was killed by the morality police for not properly wearing her hijab. Her death sparked one of the most powerful uprisings in history led by women.
Zhina represents the freedom expressed in the hair flowing in the wind that has been a symbol of the movement from the beginning. Panels of red fabric covered with paintings, messages, and poetry created by a number of international artists, create passages for the audiences to explore. The audio/visual content designed to tell a more personal story of the movement. At the heart of the installation there will be an intimate space that will be a place to connect, reflect, share, and heal.
URL: https://zhinaart.com/
Contact: [email protected]Deep Playa TracksTemple of the Heart
by: Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]This is the only Reflection Rainbow I have ever seen. It was a fleeting moment of pure magic where light bounced off the wet playa surface and created an extremely rare Reflection Rainbow. Note the distinct V shape. I had just enough time to shoot one single photo before it was gone. Jamen remember this? We we’re confused about this glitch in the matrix moment. What a a great moment to be there with you. Always fun to shoot with you.Rainbow and Chapel of Babel by Michael GarlingtonDouble Rainbow and Temple of the Heart
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Double Rainbow and Temple of the HeartRainbow and Chapel of Babel by Michael GarlingtonRainbow and Chapel of Babel by Michael GarlingtonLovely Burner – We ran into this burner right after that incredible reflection rainbow and double rainbows. It was just us out there. We had the exact same DID YOU SEE THAT?! WOW! Feeling and look on our faces. A fellow rainbow enthusiast right here!Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Big Spinning Wheels by PDA
from: Roxbury, NY
year: 2023
Simple, Yet complex! Big Spinning Wheels are not for the faint, but rather the open of heart. From close or a far, they evoke a secret and sacred tantalizing beauty. Placed at the bounds of BRC, and the edge of reality….patience is a virtue….
URL: https://pdabk.com/
Contact: [email protected]Over Ruled (NO DANCING) by Cody Smith & Looking Up Arts
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
A large red sign commands “NO DANCING” in big, bright letters, visible from afar. The provocation dares participants to defy with a boogie, shuffle, or strut, and perhaps even gather together into a sweaty, rhythmic rebellion.
Ground mounted spotlights cast enlarged silhouettes of dancers up onto the letters, broadcasting the disobedience across the playa. Crowds thus magnify their energy, sending out ripples of mischievous joy, and luring in reinforcements.
Approaching reveals smaller text on each letter, a true story of someone’s collision with a rule and the consequences: banishment, termination, expulsion, or incarceration. If the tincture of joy and grief give way to a desire for restorative justice, then Over Ruled’s goal is fulfilled.
URL: https://lookingup.art/over-ruled
Contact: [email protected]The Ursas by Jen Lewin
from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2023
Named after the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, The Ursas features two towering polar bears. In 2022, Ursa Minor, a 13-foot tall sculpture debuted on playa. Inspired by Polaris, the work’s glowing and multi-paneled infinity-mirrored body reminds us to “Look Up.”
In 2023 Ursa Minor will return, but this time with her big sister. Standing over three stories tall, Ursa Major’s hollow body is filled with glowing infinity mirrors, each reflecting mosaic drawings of extinct animals from the past 12 months.
The pair, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, stand in solidarity.
Ursa Minor in hope, looking up.
Ursa Major, as a cathedral and tomb, to species lost.
URL: https://www.jenlewinstudio.com/portfolio/ursa-minor/
Contact: [email protected]Zhina by Morteza Ansari and Konoon Studio
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Zhina was created to honor the women of Iran and the freedom movement they are leading. Zhina (Mahsa) Amini was killed by the morality police for not properly wearing her hijab. Her death sparked one of the most powerful uprisings in history led by women.
Zhina represents the freedom expressed in the hair flowing in the wind that has been a symbol of the movement from the beginning. Panels of red fabric covered with paintings, messages, and poetry created by a number of international artists, create passages for the audiences to explore. The audio/visual content designed to tell a more personal story of the movement. At the heart of the installation there will be an intimate space that will be a place to connect, reflect, share, and heal.
URL: https://zhinaart.com/
Contact: [email protected]Burden of The Beast by Walker Babington
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2023
“Burden of The Beast,” is a fantastical folk art sculpture depicting a bison with a house at its torso. It symbolizes the task of relocating one’s intrinsic understanding of ‘home.’
Both the bison & the house are made with materials from New Orleans structures which have been destroyed by climate disasters, as though the pieces of a fallen home had the sentience and will to collect what could be salvaged, stand up, and head toward higher ground.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sabatomstudios/
Contact: [email protected]The TempleBRC Pano From Beyond The TempleThe Man in the RainFour People Wearing Black Ponchos and The Temple in the RainBurners at The Man in the RainVenice Is So Nice This Time Of YearThe ManVenice Is So Nice This Time Of YearThe ManVehicles Strewn About But Otherwise EmptyTouch the Sky by Martin Taylor and Chromaforms
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2023
Touch the Sky is a sculpture of a mythical winged creature with the head of a human preparing to take flight. The sculpture is fabricated from a myriad laser-cut sheet metal plates welded together. The face is rendered in sharp detail with eyes closed in dreamlike rapture. The hair flows back in the wind. The skin is made of reflective stainless steel heat treated to a rich gold color. The surface of the sculpture is outlined by geometric tattoo-like perforations that accentuate the shape of the body and emit light at night. Wings made of golden stainless and patina’ed steel stretch upwards from the back in a dramatic pose. Touch the Sky serves as a visual metaphor for taking leaps of faith to achieve our dreams and fly.
URL: https://www.chromaforms.net/
Contact: [email protected]A Nude Man And A Naked ManThe ManTemple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]ATABEY’s Treasure by NiNo
from: Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico
year: 2023
ATABEY’s Treasure is represented as a fish leaping off the ground. The goddess of fresh water to the indigenous Taíno people in the Caribbean. Given the environmental challenges my Puerto Rico has experienced recently, we chose to honor her spirit. This will be ATABEY 2.0
URL: https://www.facebook.com/atabeystreasure/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Happpiness In Mud – A burner thriving in the mud and rain.Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Participant Struggling To Survive During Ebola Outbreak Flooding Apocalypse of DOOMTemple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Hand-in-Hand Tiptoe: Laughing Through the Mud. If you look closely at the gentleman’s jacket yuo can see how hard it’s raining.The ManBleak PlayaMoment of Pause – At a certain point you realize the bike won’t go any further and it’s now just an unwieldy heavy object. This burner was trying to figure out what to do with it and settled on parking it until later. BTW, the Mansonian Museum seen in the background here is very cool. You should check it out if you get a chance.Radical Inclusion For Everyone But You – Quite a bit of drama surrounding this camp.Barefoot – At a certain point we gave up trying to wear anything on our feet. Risky strategy but it worked out ok.ParadiseIf You Stole Our Disco Ball – What would compel someone to steal a disco ball? There are two sides to every story, and then there’s the truth.Brand New TrailerGeorge Post – This is my buddy George, a badass Burning Man photographer. Whenever I think I’ve come up with a new idea for a photograph, I later find out George did it like 20 years ago and better! It’s always a blast catching up and swapping photo stories with you George. Thanks for always having a tip or two for us newbies as well. Your openness to sharing information and supporting other photographers is wonderful. Thank you George.Lighthouse Mutant VehicleThings You Don’t Often See On Playa – Here is a very strange combination of things that you shouldn’t see on playa. Fresh fish, some dynamite, and a plant. Jk jk, the dynamite is just a box of fire starters. Put your pitchforks down keyboard warriors!Welcome Sign at The AirportShade Structure at The AirportShade Structure at The Airport88NV Under the Shade StructureGifting – Purple Haze receives a cultural gift from Danee all the way from Tahiti. They have a laugh about what you can do with it.Gifting – Airport volunteer with a gift of 88NV art.Sky Diving Plane – Cessna 208 CaravanAirport Control TowerAirplane at 88NVBlack Rock City Airport ApronBlack Rock City Airport ApronAircraft at 88NVBadass Pilot Purple HazeAerial Photo Burning Man 2023Aerial Photo Burning Man 2023Aerial Photo Burning Man 2023 – Captuirng this precise moment is tricky at Cessna aircraft speeds. The foreground here is old Razorback Mountain.Aerial Photo Burning Man 2023Aerial Photo Burning Man 2023Aerial Panorama Burning Man 2023Aerial Panorama Burning Man 2023Aerial Photo Burning Man 2023Aerial Photo Burning Man 2023Aerial Photo Burning Man 2023Aerial Photo Burning Man 2023Aerial Photo Burning Man 2023Aerial Photo Burning Man 2023Aerial Photo Burning Man 2023Aerial Photo Burning Man 2023Aerial Photo Burning Man 2023Aerial Photo Burning Man 2023Aerial Photo Burning Man 2023Aerial Photo Burning Man 202388NV Black Rock City 2023Badass Pilot Purple HazeBadass Pilot Purple Haze – This lovely human helps build the airport (and tear it down) and he spends his burns gifting scenic flights to other participants. Purple Haze barely even even gets a chance to explore BRC itself beacuse he works so hard at the airport volunteering and working his ass off. Thank you PH for collaborating with me and taking me up. Absolutely magical up there every time.Life is a Circus by Sandra Bérubé
from: Vancouver, BC, Canada
year: 2023
An elephant is lifted in the air by an airship filled with a flock of birds. A contortionist, hand-balancing on the elephant’s trunk, analyzes the direction to take. The improbable convoy seems ready to take off. Ropes still anchor it to the ground, and red flags are waving in the wind…
Life is a Circus is inspired by the weight of power dynamics and how lines can get blurred between real and fake, safety versus danger. Relationships, money, work, living situations, and mental and physical health can lift us as much as pull us down. Our supports, or ball and chains, often are not who or what we thought they would be. Here is a tribute to fighting to not fall entirely out of balance and find the strength and courage to harness the madness.
Contact: [email protected]Life is a Circus by Sandra Bérubé
from: Vancouver, BC, Canada
year: 2023
An elephant is lifted in the air by an airship filled with a flock of birds. A contortionist, hand-balancing on the elephant’s trunk, analyzes the direction to take. The improbable convoy seems ready to take off. Ropes still anchor it to the ground, and red flags are waving in the wind…
Life is a Circus is inspired by the weight of power dynamics and how lines can get blurred between real and fake, safety versus danger. Relationships, money, work, living situations, and mental and physical health can lift us as much as pull us down. Our supports, or ball and chains, often are not who or what we thought they would be. Here is a tribute to fighting to not fall entirely out of balance and find the strength and courage to harness the madness.
Contact: [email protected]BMIRThe Solar Library Phase 2
by: Jared Ficklin & The Other Singularity
from: Austin, TX
year: 2023
The Solar Library is a rhythmic repetition of triangular yellow huts with bright sun orange doors. The steel framed huts present solar panels at an ideal angle to the sun. At night they bathe in soft yellow light reminiscent of the sunlight collected all day.
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Each is a self-contained 1600 Watt solar charging supporting other art projects. Instead of generators artists buy batteries & charge them each day at The Solar Library. This allows artists to convert to solar power without the cost, fumes & engineering of placing panels next to their art.
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A whisperia flower out front tells the story of the art projects in each unit when a handle is cranked like a music box for spoken word.
URL: http://www.solarlibrary.info
Contact: [email protected]THIS IS NOT ART? ARE YOU KIDDING?! POWERING THE ARTWORKS OF OTHER ARTISTS FROM THE FREAKIN SUN IS ART IMHO! THANK YOU!
The Solar Library Phase 2
by: Jared Ficklin & The Other Singularity
from: Austin, TX
year: 2023
The Solar Library is a rhythmic repetition of triangular yellow huts with bright sun orange doors. The steel framed huts present solar panels at an ideal angle to the sun. At night they bathe in soft yellow light reminiscent of the sunlight collected all day.
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Each is a self-contained 1600 Watt solar charging supporting other art projects. Instead of generators artists buy batteries & charge them each day at The Solar Library. This allows artists to convert to solar power without the cost, fumes & engineering of placing panels next to their art.
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A whisperia flower out front tells the story of the art projects in each unit when a handle is cranked like a music box for spoken word.
URL: http://www.solarlibrary.info
Contact: [email protected]Sainte Vie Was Floating – Incredible sound and vibe here. So fun! Absolute legend. Check out Sainte Vie on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/30oVwXZSlElygdNpcUIFBkArt You Can ClimbLovely BurnersA New BurnerLovely Burner – Nice to mee you Norman.Butterfly Girl – Nice to see you again!Lovely BurnersGood Times – I didn’t have the right lens on to get a wide enough shot here so this is a stiched panorama. If you look closely you can see how the stich went humurously wrong. My bad!Lovely BurnerLovely BurnersThe Porch and Chapel of Babel by Michael GarlingtonLovely BurnersThe Sky Rabbit’s HouseLovely BurnersTeddy Bears PartyingLovely BurnerChalice to Eleusis by Hunter Leggitt Jonathan Berry & House of Fābl
from: Denver, CO
year: 2023
The ways of Eleusis were lost to history; now in this moment, the past is being revealed. Encased underground and locked away in hidden libraries for nearly two thousand years, the mysteries of our cultural roots are now finally being exposed. The tides are turning and with them, the unlocking of the universal balance that exists between chaos and the cosmos. The Kykeon spills out its truth to the playa.
URL: https://www.houseoffabl.com/
Contact: [email protected]Lovely BurnersName UnknownLovely BurnerLovely Burner With Giant SpoonChapel of Babel by Michael Garlington
from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Lovely BurnersTemple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Lovely BurnerSpiruvious by BoKo Fine Art
from: Las Vegas, NV
year: 2023
Loosely based on desert plants this sculpture strives to understand and recreate the forces of nature. The piece is very industrial in appearance with the sheer steel facade and plastic bubbling light fixtures, and so, the elements of nature are represented by the gradual shift in color of the light and the ever persistent shrieks and thumps of the sound. Just like the vibrations of life, this sculpture’s life force will pulse through it in a slow and melodic manner. The piece, although beautiful during the day, is dormant, only coming to life as the sun sets each night. People are inevitably be drawn to these representations of energy forces and so the sculpture and its surrounding environment will inevitably become a serene social space.
URL: https://www.boko.art
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Tank Mutant VehicleLincoln Bear by Mr & Mrs Ferguson
from: Alameda, CA
year: 2023
A tribute to the Lincoln Memorial and the coin with the image of Lincoln and memorial stamped on it. The Lincoln in this chair is a 10 foot tall grizzly bear that has fur made with tens of thousands of pennies.
The original sculpture depicts President Lincoln’s gaze as he contemplates decisions that will save a nation with a gaze that charges one to uphold those decisions. Lincoln Bear’s gaze also contemplates, but his decisions and those are ones that may save the natural world.
URL: https://www.mr-and-mrs-ferguson.com/lincoln-bear
Contact: [email protected]Man in the DustTouch the Sky by Martin Taylor and Chromaforms
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2023
Touch the Sky is a sculpture of a mythical winged creature with the head of a human preparing to take flight. The sculpture is fabricated from a myriad laser-cut sheet metal plates welded together. The face is rendered in sharp detail with eyes closed in dreamlike rapture. The hair flows back in the wind. The skin is made of reflective stainless steel heat treated to a rich gold color. The surface of the sculpture is outlined by geometric tattoo-like perforations that accentuate the shape of the body and emit light at night. Wings made of golden stainless and patina’ed steel stretch upwards from the back in a dramatic pose. Touch the Sky serves as a visual metaphor for taking leaps of faith to achieve our dreams and fly.
URL: https://www.chromaforms.net/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]1000 & 1
by: Tyler Fuqua Creations
from: Eagle Creek, OR
year: 2023
Mechan 1 & Mechan 1000 – Two robots frozen in time. One is made of metal and appears fresh off the factory line and one seems to be an ancient prototype for it is made of wood. Both robots have a hand outstretched towards the other with a finger pointing right at the opposing robot. The metal one holds an axe. The wooden one holds a wrench. Are they here to fight? Did they some how create each other? And where did they come from? Who built them? So many questions that can be answered with a bit of creative sleuthing.
URL: http://www.tylerfuquacreations.com/1000&1
Contact: [email protected]Chalice to Eleusis by Hunter Leggitt Jonathan Berry & House of Fābl
from: Denver, CO
year: 2023
The ways of Eleusis were lost to history; now in this moment, the past is being revealed. Encased underground and locked away in hidden libraries for nearly two thousand years, the mysteries of our cultural roots are now finally being exposed. The tides are turning and with them, the unlocking of the universal balance that exists between chaos and the cosmos. The Kykeon spills out its truth to the playa.
URL: https://www.houseoffabl.com/
Contact: [email protected]The ManThe ManAxolotl: The Art Car, The Temple, and OneiroticaVanishing Points by Poetic KineticsThe Sky Rabbit’s HouseThe Giving Tree Art CarChalice to Eleusis by Hunter Leggitt Jonathan Berry & House of Fābl and MonacoTemple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Zhina by Morteza Ansari and Konoon Studio
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Zhina was created to honor the women of Iran and the freedom movement they are leading. Zhina (Mahsa) Amini was killed by the morality police for not properly wearing her hijab. Her death sparked one of the most powerful uprisings in history led by women.
Zhina represents the freedom expressed in the hair flowing in the wind that has been a symbol of the movement from the beginning. Panels of red fabric covered with paintings, messages, and poetry created by a number of international artists, create passages for the audiences to explore. The audio/visual content designed to tell a more personal story of the movement. At the heart of the installation there will be an intimate space that will be a place to connect, reflect, share, and heal.
URL: https://zhinaart.com/
Contact: [email protected]Lovely Burner – Thanks for taking care of all the photographers! Great to meet you.Cactus of Life. A Mirror of truth. Awaken your true self by David Lombrozo, Tania Ordoñez, Pablo Fernandez and Humberto Wong
from: México City, México
year: 2023
Cactus of Life is a sculptural piece that offers a glimpse inside of oneself. The Mexican traditional Tree of Life and the iconic cactus come together as one. Here all are welcome to see themselves as they are, no prejudice. By doing so, all can share a better version of their self with the world.
The first symbol comes from the Mexican artisan tradition of the “Tree of Life.” Made of clay, this tree is adorned with many figures related to different themes such as the sun and the moon.
The second symbol is a cactus, the desert plant that survives harsh conditions and welcomes all beings who come to find life. Cacti also contain psychedelic properties that help the recipient to see inside themselves.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/cactus.of.life/
Contact: [email protected]Always such a joy to see you Bonnie!Always such a joy to see you Bonnie!I often wonder why everyone looks so handsome and beautiful out there and I am a complete mess. So cool to see you!Burners Ride Out To The TempleOneirotica by Kirsten Berg
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2023
Oneiros: reflecting that which arises from the deep well of divine dreams
Eros: Archetypal life force, the creative pulse, excitation
Oneirotica : A giant, iridescent mirror-steel orchid draws us in with dazzling magenta, reflective petals, rising like a shrine from the future. As we move beyond the allure of our own reflections, we alight and take our place at an altar, where a book of “Nectar” awaits, offering gifts of reflective questions and answers: What matters? Best insights? What truly stimulates, brings a deeper buzz to our lives? Diving into our well of experience, we draw forth these deeper treasures to savor and share at this cross-pollination station of meaning, abuzz with the creative pulse, fertile with inspiration, to brighten and lighten our path ahead.
Contact: [email protected]Oneirotica by Kirsten Berg
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2023
Oneiros: reflecting that which arises from the deep well of divine dreams
Eros: Archetypal life force, the creative pulse, excitation
Oneirotica : A giant, iridescent mirror-steel orchid draws us in with dazzling magenta, reflective petals, rising like a shrine from the future. As we move beyond the allure of our own reflections, we alight and take our place at an altar, where a book of “Nectar” awaits, offering gifts of reflective questions and answers: What matters? Best insights? What truly stimulates, brings a deeper buzz to our lives? Diving into our well of experience, we draw forth these deeper treasures to savor and share at this cross-pollination station of meaning, abuzz with the creative pulse, fertile with inspiration, to brighten and lighten our path ahead.
Contact: [email protected]Oneirotica by Kirsten Berg
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2023
Oneiros: reflecting that which arises from the deep well of divine dreams
Eros: Archetypal life force, the creative pulse, excitation
Oneirotica : A giant, iridescent mirror-steel orchid draws us in with dazzling magenta, reflective petals, rising like a shrine from the future. As we move beyond the allure of our own reflections, we alight and take our place at an altar, where a book of “Nectar” awaits, offering gifts of reflective questions and answers: What matters? Best insights? What truly stimulates, brings a deeper buzz to our lives? Diving into our well of experience, we draw forth these deeper treasures to savor and share at this cross-pollination station of meaning, abuzz with the creative pulse, fertile with inspiration, to brighten and lighten our path ahead.
Contact: [email protected]Vanishing Points by Poetic KineticsName UnknownThings You See Every DayVanishing Points and Mutant VehicleLimo Fire at Chapel of Babel – I’m not sure what happened here but props to the Emergency Services for putting this fire out in no time at all. Also shout out to the burners who took it upon themselves to create an impromptu perimeter to keep everyone at a safe distance. This was an odd situation because the fire was so close to the Chapel of Babel that people immediately started flocking to the area because they thought the Chapel Burn was happening. A large crowd formed very quickly.Limo Fire at Chapel of Babel – I’m not sure what happened here but props to the Emergency Services for putting this fire out in no time at all. Also shout out to the burners who took it upon themselves to create an impromptu perimeter to keep everyone at a safe distance. This was an odd situation because the fire was so close to the Chapel of Babel that people immediately started flocking to the area because they thought the Chapel Burn was happening. A large crowd formed very quickly.Cat Tree for Humans by Connie Yang and Ash McGahee
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
A giant cat tree built for human-sized cats to climb and play in! Full of places to perch and watch the playa, hidey holes to snuggle in, and ramps, ropes, and nets to climb.
It’s a brightly colored structure that can be seen from great distances on the playa, and is meant to encourage playfulness and interaction, like a big fuzzy jungle gym.
Most surface areas are covered in rugs and fabric. It is cozy, provides high places for shelter, and dynamic things to climb. Everything a cat needs.
(My apologies to the builders of this piece. I did not get any decent images of the other side.)ThunderdomeThunderdomeThunderdomeThunderdomeThunderdomeThunderdomeThunderdomeThunderdomeMigrations by Olivia Guethling & Mar Ricketts — Superwhelm
from: Portland, OR
year: 2023
‘Migrations’ is a migratory bird sculpture, built with golden fabrics and aluminum carbon fiber. The dynamic, 15′ tall bird seems to lift off the deep playa where it offers shade during the day, and showcases a programmed LED light show at night.
The installation and the accompanying audio exhibit contemplates the beauty and struggle of human and animal migration.
URL: https://sites.google.com/view/migrations2023/home
Contact: [email protected]Migrations by Olivia Guethling & Mar Ricketts — Superwhelm
from: Portland, OR
year: 2023
‘Migrations’ is a migratory bird sculpture, built with golden fabrics and aluminum carbon fiber. The dynamic, 15′ tall bird seems to lift off the deep playa where it offers shade during the day, and showcases a programmed LED light show at night.
The installation and the accompanying audio exhibit contemplates the beauty and struggle of human and animal migration.
URL: https://sites.google.com/view/migrations2023/home
Contact: [email protected]Young Burner Riding a Bike in the DustYuluka by Camilo Quimbayo / Santiago Caro
from: Bogotá, Colombia
year: 2023
¨Yuluka¨ means balance for Precolumbian indigenous communities descendants of the Tayronas; their cosmovision represents the concept of duality: The sun and the moon, light, and darkness, life and death.
All around the universe talks about duplicity and the natural opposites, which function as a way to maintain a universal and cosmic balance.
This concept is represented in a double head cayman forging a unique piece of goldsmith jewelry work on a large scale. Bringing to the deep playa a part of this magic animal ancient representation.
URL: http://www.yulukainstallation.com
Contact: [email protected]Burner Riding a BikeThe Temple and Titanic’s EndEarth and Beyond by Karel MachalekShips Passing in the DustThe Hedgehog Temple by Yaroslav Korets, Kurenivka
from: Kyiv, Ukraine
year: 2023
The Hedgehog Temple is a powerful, visually striking tribute to the diverse Ukrainian creative community members who bravely defended their country during the war, including DJs, musicians, artists, journalists, and film directors. It encourages visitors to contemplate the sacrifices made by these individuals and the significance of community, support, and dedication.
This installation, composed of a cluster of anti-tank hedgehogs, forms an abstract figure that evokes both an animal hedgehog and a looming thundercloud, which often carries a foreboding threat. For Ukrainians, these anti-tank hedgehogs symbolize protection and unity. During the early days of the war, ordinary Ukrainians created thousands of hedgehogs from three sections of iron I-beams welded together to safeguard their communities.
Inside the Temple, visitors can uncover stories of war victims who dreamt of attending Burning Man and pay tribute to the thousands of courageous and talented individuals the Ukrainian creative community lost due to the war. Through this installation, the artists seek to express gratitude for those who lost their lives defending their homeland and those who continue to stand guard. The Hedgehog Temple represents hope and resilience, reminding us that the human spirit can triumph even in the darkest times.
URL: https://kurenivka.ua/temple
Contact: [email protected]Doorway to Everything
by: Pedro Loughran and the Woodbutchers Collective
from: Sebastopol, CA
year: 2023
The piece is a door on a platform. It is a portal to pass through to everything. there will be ornate woodwork and design. The meaning is every door is an opportunity to something new.
URL: https://woodbutchers.org
Contact: [email protected]Dusty Temple and Mutant VehiclesChapel of Babel by Michael Garlington
from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]The Ursas by Jen Lewin
from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2023
Named after the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, The Ursas features two towering polar bears. In 2022, Ursa Minor, a 13-foot tall sculpture debuted on playa. Inspired by Polaris, the work’s glowing and multi-paneled infinity-mirrored body reminds us to “Look Up.”
In 2023 Ursa Minor will return, but this time with her big sister. Standing over three stories tall, Ursa Major’s hollow body is filled with glowing infinity mirrors, each reflecting mosaic drawings of extinct animals from the past 12 months.
The pair, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, stand in solidarity.
Ursa Minor in hope, looking up.
Ursa Major, as a cathedral and tomb, to species lost.
URL: https://www.jenlewinstudio.com/portfolio/ursa-minor/
Contact: [email protected]Burden of The Beast by Walker Babington
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2023
“Burden of The Beast,” is a fantastical folk art sculpture depicting a bison with a house at its torso. It symbolizes the task of relocating one’s intrinsic understanding of ‘home.’
Both the bison & the house are made with materials from New Orleans structures which have been destroyed by climate disasters, as though the pieces of a fallen home had the sentience and will to collect what could be salvaged, stand up, and head toward higher ground.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sabatomstudios/
Contact: [email protected]Burden of The Beast by Walker Babington
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2023
“Burden of The Beast,” is a fantastical folk art sculpture depicting a bison with a house at its torso. It symbolizes the task of relocating one’s intrinsic understanding of ‘home.’
Both the bison & the house are made with materials from New Orleans structures which have been destroyed by climate disasters, as though the pieces of a fallen home had the sentience and will to collect what could be salvaged, stand up, and head toward higher ground.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sabatomstudios/
Contact: [email protected]Train Engine Mutant VehicleThe Man in the DustThe Man in the DustThe Man in the DustJíbaro Soy… by: Mark Rivera aka Kidnetick
from: Bayamón, Puerto Rico
year: 2023
A large scale sculpture of a shameless Jíbaro reveling where and what its made of, inspired by a song of protest written by composer Raphy Leavitt expresses anti-colonialism and freedom to be respected for whom he is and where his from.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/kidnetick/
Contact: [email protected]Invisible Trojan Unicorn by Invisible Pink Unicorns
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2023
Given the challenge of getting the tickets, we invited the easiest and cheapest way to get to Burning Man – inside the Trojan unicorn. Please come and check if it is open and if we successfully get out to the Playa and are not trapped inside (and help us get out if we are still in)!Axolotl Frequency by Gio Mantis & Elana Novali
from: Mexico City, Mexico
year: 2023
Axolotl Frequency is inspired by the creature’s unique ability to regenerate its body through the power of its heart, connecting to the very essence of life. These art pieces aim to express the importance of protecting this endangered animal and symbolize the power and wisdom of the heart. Two sculptures of 13 parts engineered to create a realistic depiction of an Axolotl, giving the impression of floating on water while the body and tail emerge from it. Intricately designed skin with transparent sections will allow internal light to shine through, enhanced with stained glass, mirrors, and gems. The chest section will have a transparent opening with internal lighting that pulses with a simulated heartbeat simulating its heart frequency.
URL: https://www.giomantis.com/axolotlfrequency
Contact: [email protected]Driveable CouchHenry Chang’s Flux Capacitor and Frog CampNice To See YouNosotres by Brenden Darby, Simón Malvaez, Ollie Newth, Evan Connelly, Sergio Garrido-Ramirez, and Cruz Ramirez
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
NOSOTRES is a monument to the ancient history of the queer community. Standing at 50′ tall with depictions of nonbinary faces and Mictlan (The Aztec Underworld) this evolution of our 2022 Burning Man Piece, THEM, Serves as a reminder that queer people have been here since the beginning of time. Queerness represents our past, present and future and we honor the many deaths of our past selves that help us move forward.
Contact: [email protected]Exquisite Animalus
by: KJ Boheme and Stefan Spins
from: New York, NY
year: 2023
What is animal?
Exquisite Animalus moves beyond the physical and allows for fantastical reinterpretation and celebration of earth’s gorgeous biodiversity. Viewing the piece opens a discussion of human’s role within the animal kingdom. Interacting with the Exquisite Animalus affords the participant a God-like ability to design their own creature. Sharing the experience with other contributors allows for the unlocking of the word puzzle which reveals the collective’s secret message of the piece. All roles: viewer, interactor, participant or contributor will be provided an absurd opportunity to create and deepen one’s connection with the building blocks of our Animalus kingdom. Nature is wild and beautiful!
URL: https://kjbowen.art
Contact: [email protected]Exquisite Animalus
by: KJ Boheme and Stefan Spins
from: New York, NY
year: 2023
What is animal?
Exquisite Animalus moves beyond the physical and allows for fantastical reinterpretation and celebration of earth’s gorgeous biodiversity. Viewing the piece opens a discussion of human’s role within the animal kingdom. Interacting with the Exquisite Animalus affords the participant a God-like ability to design their own creature. Sharing the experience with other contributors allows for the unlocking of the word puzzle which reveals the collective’s secret message of the piece. All roles: viewer, interactor, participant or contributor will be provided an absurd opportunity to create and deepen one’s connection with the building blocks of our Animalus kingdom. Nature is wild and beautiful!
URL: https://kjbowen.art
Contact: [email protected]Mariposa by Christopher Schardt
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2023
A 26’ x 14’ butterfly 15’ above the ground. Its wings are hinged so that they flap, propelled by the wind or by participants operating a lever. 38,000 LEDs cover its surface. As speakers play classical and classic pop music, images choreographed to each section are displayed on the LEDs.
The structure of the butterfly is bent aluminum tubing. Aluminum strips are across it, onto which are glued LED strips. Each wing has a front-to-back axle around which the wing pivots. These axles are angled so that the front edges of the wings are higher than the rear edges. This allows a gust of wind to push the outer edges of the wings upward. They come down when the gust abates. Thus the wings flap even when there are no participants move them manually.
Approximately 38,000 full-color, computer-controlled LEDs cover the bottom sides of each wing, surround the body, and run along each antenna and leg. These are controlled by several computers.
The four speakers surrounding the butterfly are disguised as giant flower pots with LED flowers growing out of them. The flower are touch-sensitive, changing their animations in response to a visitor’s attentions.
URL: http://ledlabs.co/mariposa
Contact: [email protected]Mariposa by Christopher Schardt
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2023
A 26’ x 14’ butterfly 15’ above the ground. Its wings are hinged so that they flap, propelled by the wind or by participants operating a lever. 38,000 LEDs cover its surface. As speakers play classical and classic pop music, images choreographed to each section are displayed on the LEDs.
The structure of the butterfly is bent aluminum tubing. Aluminum strips are across it, onto which are glued LED strips. Each wing has a front-to-back axle around which the wing pivots. These axles are angled so that the front edges of the wings are higher than the rear edges. This allows a gust of wind to push the outer edges of the wings upward. They come down when the gust abates. Thus the wings flap even when there are no participants move them manually.
Approximately 38,000 full-color, computer-controlled LEDs cover the bottom sides of each wing, surround the body, and run along each antenna and leg. These are controlled by several computers.
The four speakers surrounding the butterfly are disguised as giant flower pots with LED flowers growing out of them. The flower are touch-sensitive, changing their animations in response to a visitor’s attentions.
URL: http://ledlabs.co/mariposa
Contact: [email protected]I bumped into these guys and made of off handed remark. Like “hey I know a thing about what you are doing!” Turns out they were subject matter experts. Perhaps THE subject matter experts. Had a wonderful chat with these three legends and tried to share some mistakes I have made so they can avoid them. Putting my foot in my my mouth was a nice reminder to stay humble. You never know, you might be talking to a world class talent.ATABEY’s Treasure by NiNo
from: Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico
year: 2023
ATABEY’s Treasure is represented as a fish leaping off the ground. The goddess of fresh water to the indigenous Taíno people in the Caribbean. Given the environmental challenges my Puerto Rico has experienced recently, we chose to honor her spirit. This will be ATABEY 2.0
URL: https://www.facebook.com/atabeystreasure/
Contact: [email protected]Light BeamsView Inside From Inside Those Light BeamsBalloons and Mutant VehiclesFly ByMutant Vehicle and The ManName UnknownRobot Heart Bus FlowersLovely BurnersLEOsLEOsLovely Burner – So great to see you again!!!Lovely BurnerLovely BurnerLovely Burner – I love the slightly bewildered look on this man’s face. Who is this guy who just asked to take my picture? Why is he so charming and handsome and humble? Can you tell I’m getting bored with writing captions YET?! OMG IM SO TIRED SEND HALP.Lovely BurnerLovely BurnerLovely BurnerLovely BurnerBlack Rock Philharmonic Concert at Chapel of BabelNautical VibesSkyWhale: The Not Shywhale
by: Blake Marcus and Seven
from: New York, NY
year: 2023
The SkyWhale represents the ephemerality of nature and to break our per-concieved notions of where are can be. She is a flying whale that swims through the sky and adds a reflection of water and serenity to a landscape that is harsh and unforgiving.
Contact: [email protected]Blackrock Philharmonic PerformanceTemple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple and Full MoonThe Moon Sets Behind The Temple and Abraxas – The full moon setting as the sun rose was really something special. What a morning!Moonset Behind The Temple as Abraxas Looks OnChapel of Babel by Michael Garlington
from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Chapel of Babel by Michael Garlington
from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Chapel of Babel by Michael Garlington
from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Chapel of Babel by Michael Garlington
from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Elder Mother by Charles A. Gadeken
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Elder Mother is inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, the Elder-Tree-Mother. The boy in the story meets the Elder-Tree-Mother, who sits atop an Elder-Tree that grew out of the teapot next to his bed (in his dream). She speaks with him, and they go on many adventures and explorations over time. She gathers memories and shared experiences. She illuminates and night and provides shade during the day. Come and listen to her story.
URL: https://www.charlesgadeken.com/
Contact: [email protected]Elder Mother by Charles A. Gadeken
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Elder Mother is inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, the Elder-Tree-Mother. The boy in the story meets the Elder-Tree-Mother, who sits atop an Elder-Tree that grew out of the teapot next to his bed (in his dream). She speaks with him, and they go on many adventures and explorations over time. She gathers memories and shared experiences. She illuminates and night and provides shade during the day. Come and listen to her story.
URL: https://www.charlesgadeken.com/
Contact: [email protected]The Man at DawnThe Man at DawnThe Man at DawnOHM by: Wizard from: Oakland, CA year: 2023
Ohm looks like a 12 foot silver donut. Stainless curved tubes wrap around to form its shell. The donut is suspended to allow viewing from all the way around. Walking around the object creates visual patterns as the curved lines overlap.
URL: https://rainbowgeometric.com/#/ohm-2023/OHM by: Wizard from: Oakland, CA year: 2023
Ohm looks like a 12 foot silver donut. Stainless curved tubes wrap around to form its shell. The donut is suspended to allow viewing from all the way around. Walking around the object creates visual patterns as the curved lines overlap.
URL: https://rainbowgeometric.com/#/ohm-2023/OHM by: Wizard from: Oakland, CA year: 2023
Ohm looks like a 12 foot silver donut. Stainless curved tubes wrap around to form its shell. The donut is suspended to allow viewing from all the way around. Walking around the object creates visual patterns as the curved lines overlap.
URL: https://rainbowgeometric.com/#/ohm-2023/OHM by: Wizard from: Oakland, CA year: 2023
Ohm looks like a 12 foot silver donut. Stainless curved tubes wrap around to form its shell. The donut is suspended to allow viewing from all the way around. Walking around the object creates visual patterns as the curved lines overlap.
URL: https://rainbowgeometric.com/#/ohm-2023/Frog CampLayouts – Just goofing around with city layouts here. This is not what it looks like in real life.Layouts – Just goofing around with city layouts here. This is not what it looks like in real life.Center CampMoon and Light BeamsFull Moon and Chapel of Babel by Michael Garlington
from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Touch the Sky by Martin Taylor and Chromaforms
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2023
Touch the Sky is a sculpture of a mythical winged creature with the head of a human preparing to take flight. The sculpture is fabricated from a myriad laser-cut sheet metal plates welded together. The face is rendered in sharp detail with eyes closed in dreamlike rapture. The hair flows back in the wind. The skin is made of reflective stainless steel heat treated to a rich gold color. The surface of the sculpture is outlined by geometric tattoo-like perforations that accentuate the shape of the body and emit light at night. Wings made of golden stainless and patina’ed steel stretch upwards from the back in a dramatic pose. Touch the Sky serves as a visual metaphor for taking leaps of faith to achieve our dreams and fly.
URL: https://www.chromaforms.net/
Contact: [email protected]Temple Anam Cara by A Celtic Light and Obsydian Studios creation
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Anam Cara is an ancient Celtic phrase referring to the concept of the “soul friend” in spirituality. Temple Anam Cara intertwines a Celtic Tree of Life upon an Aztec Step Pyramid, an homage to the ancestral heritages of our co-creators. The shared belief in this concept has inspired the creation of this sculpture. We recognize that the path of wisdom is woven by countless cultures and civilizations, each offering unique insights into the nature of existence – to celebrate the shared connections of our Soul Friends that have guided and inspired deeper connections to the universe’s beauty. At the heart of Temple Anam Cara lies a deep belief in the unity of love, light, and consciousness—a recognition that all ancient traditions converge in their quest for higher truth. The base sanctuary is adorned by murals, mirrors and LEDs to welcome all to offered experiences. This sculpture is a creation in honor of the indigenous wisdom embraced by the creators of Temple Anam Cara, a shared expression of love of community, life and earth.
www.templeanamcara.com
URL: https://obsydianstudios.com/
Contact: [email protected]Double Sun Star and TempleFAFO is the new FOMOPlayAlchemist and Hot Air BalloonTemple Anam Cara by A Celtic Light and Obsydian Studios creation
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Anam Cara is an ancient Celtic phrase referring to the concept of the “soul friend” in spirituality. Temple Anam Cara intertwines a Celtic Tree of Life upon an Aztec Step Pyramid, an homage to the ancestral heritages of our co-creators. The shared belief in this concept has inspired the creation of this sculpture. We recognize that the path of wisdom is woven by countless cultures and civilizations, each offering unique insights into the nature of existence – to celebrate the shared connections of our Soul Friends that have guided and inspired deeper connections to the universe’s beauty. At the heart of Temple Anam Cara lies a deep belief in the unity of love, light, and consciousness—a recognition that all ancient traditions converge in their quest for higher truth. The base sanctuary is adorned by murals, mirrors and LEDs to welcome all to offered experiences. This sculpture is a creation in honor of the indigenous wisdom embraced by the creators of Temple Anam Cara, a shared expression of love of community, life and earth.
www.templeanamcara.com
URL: https://obsydianstudios.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple Anam Cara by A Celtic Light and Obsydian Studios creation
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Anam Cara is an ancient Celtic phrase referring to the concept of the “soul friend” in spirituality. Temple Anam Cara intertwines a Celtic Tree of Life upon an Aztec Step Pyramid, an homage to the ancestral heritages of our co-creators. The shared belief in this concept has inspired the creation of this sculpture. We recognize that the path of wisdom is woven by countless cultures and civilizations, each offering unique insights into the nature of existence – to celebrate the shared connections of our Soul Friends that have guided and inspired deeper connections to the universe’s beauty. At the heart of Temple Anam Cara lies a deep belief in the unity of love, light, and consciousness—a recognition that all ancient traditions converge in their quest for higher truth. The base sanctuary is adorned by murals, mirrors and LEDs to welcome all to offered experiences. This sculpture is a creation in honor of the indigenous wisdom embraced by the creators of Temple Anam Cara, a shared expression of love of community, life and earth.
www.templeanamcara.com
URL: https://obsydianstudios.com/
Contact: [email protected]Tycho SunriseChalice to Eleusis by Hunter Leggitt Jonathan Berry & House of Fābl
from: Denver, CO
year: 2023
The ways of Eleusis were lost to history; now in this moment, the past is being revealed. Encased underground and locked away in hidden libraries for nearly two thousand years, the mysteries of our cultural roots are now finally being exposed. The tides are turning and with them, the unlocking of the universal balance that exists between chaos and the cosmos. The Kykeon spills out its truth to the playa.
URL: https://www.houseoffabl.com/
Contact: [email protected]
(My apologies to the Chalice to Eleusis team for not getting a great image of the piece)Tycho SunriseValerian Steel by Henry Chang and Chapel of Babel by Michael GarlingtonTycho SunriseTemple SilhouetteBalloonsChalice to Eleusis by Hunter Leggitt Jonathan Berry & House of Fābl
from: Denver, CO
year: 2023
The ways of Eleusis were lost to history; now in this moment, the past is being revealed. Encased underground and locked away in hidden libraries for nearly two thousand years, the mysteries of our cultural roots are now finally being exposed. The tides are turning and with them, the unlocking of the universal balance that exists between chaos and the cosmos. The Kykeon spills out its truth to the playa.
URL: https://www.houseoffabl.com/
Contact: [email protected]Abraxas Temple and MoonTemple and MoonPlaya MoonsetMoonset and The ManSunrise and Chapel of BabelQueen Cobra by Andrea Greenlees Andy Tibbetts and Josh Haywood
from: London, United Kingdom & Reno, NV
year: 2023
Queen Cobra is a large art installation made of gleaming powder-coated tubular steel and hand-beaten copper. It takes the form of a huge rearing cobra with a coiled body, a beautiful copper-scaled head topped with a magnificent crown, and a spreading hood. Her body is a hooped structure that invites climbing and play, appealing to the child in us all.
Queen Cobra references the ancient shared mythologies of many diverse cultures. Specifically she represents the awakening of Kundalini, a form of divine feminine energy, which is visualized as a serpent uncoiling from the base of the spine and ascending through different levels of mystical experience until it reaches the top of the head, leading to a profound transformation of consciousness.
URL: https://www.andreagreenlees.com/
Contact: [email protected]Wedding PartyLayers and ZhinaTemple Anam Cara by A Celtic Light and Obsydian Studios creation
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Anam Cara is an ancient Celtic phrase referring to the concept of the “soul friend” in spirituality. Temple Anam Cara intertwines a Celtic Tree of Life upon an Aztec Step Pyramid, an homage to the ancestral heritages of our co-creators. The shared belief in this concept has inspired the creation of this sculpture. We recognize that the path of wisdom is woven by countless cultures and civilizations, each offering unique insights into the nature of existence – to celebrate the shared connections of our Soul Friends that have guided and inspired deeper connections to the universe’s beauty. At the heart of Temple Anam Cara lies a deep belief in the unity of love, light, and consciousness—a recognition that all ancient traditions converge in their quest for higher truth. The base sanctuary is adorned by murals, mirrors and LEDs to welcome all to offered experiences. This sculpture is a creation in honor of the indigenous wisdom embraced by the creators of Temple Anam Cara, a shared expression of love of community, life and earth.
www.templeanamcara.com
URL: https://obsydianstudios.com/
Contact: [email protected]Great MaskBree and Shelly The Crab – This is the first vehicle or art piece that I have seen with Starlink. Bree and I had a good laugh about the absurdity and fun of having internet access on a moving piece of art like this. Being the nerds that we are, we immediately did a speedtest and got like 65 Mbps. What a time to be alive! Thank you Bree.Since its inception in 1999, the Pinhole Project has been a standout presence at Burning Man. A group of dedicated photographers, they employ the age-old technique of pinhole photography to capture the essence of the festival. Their choice of equipment is fascinating: they use 12 cameras made from 50-gallon cardboard barrels, designed to expose 30 x 40-inch sheets of gelatin silver paper.
In the midst of the desert, they’ve set up a makeshift darkroom within a shipping container. Each year, they produce about a hundred photos, offering a unique, almost ethereal view of the festivities, which are then showcased around the playa.
Black Rock City, Nevada, undergoes a magical transformation each summer. Thousands flock to this barren desert, turning it into a vibrant hub for artists, dancers, and free spirits. Among them is the Pinhole Project team. Originating from the simple desire of four festival-goers in 1999, this initiative has since evolved in both its technical prowess and its role in the Burning Man community.
What makes pinhole photography so compelling, especially in such a dynamic environment, is its ability to capture a unique stillness amidst chaos. For many, it answers questions about the nature of documenting experiences at Burning Man. The overarching goal of the Pinhole Project? To give attendees a different lens through which to view the raw creativity and radical self-expression that defines this iconic event.
https://pinholeproject.org/Since its inception in 1999, the Pinhole Project has been a standout presence at Burning Man. A group of dedicated photographers, they employ the age-old technique of pinhole photography to capture the essence of the festival. Their choice of equipment is fascinating: they use 12 cameras made from 50-gallon cardboard barrels, designed to expose 30 x 40-inch sheets of gelatin silver paper.
In the midst of the desert, they’ve set up a makeshift darkroom within a shipping container. Each year, they produce about a hundred photos, offering a unique, almost ethereal view of the festivities, which are then showcased around the playa.
Black Rock City, Nevada, undergoes a magical transformation each summer. Thousands flock to this barren desert, turning it into a vibrant hub for artists, dancers, and free spirits. Among them is the Pinhole Project team. Originating from the simple desire of four festival-goers in 1999, this initiative has since evolved in both its technical prowess and its role in the Burning Man community.
What makes pinhole photography so compelling, especially in such a dynamic environment, is its ability to capture a unique stillness amidst chaos. For many, it answers questions about the nature of documenting experiences at Burning Man. The overarching goal of the Pinhole Project? To give attendees a different lens through which to view the raw creativity and radical self-expression that defines this iconic event.
https://pinholeproject.org/Playa Party Patrol Mutant VehicleEarth and Beyond by Karel MachalekChalice to Eleusis by Hunter Leggitt Jonathan Berry & House of Fābl
from: Denver, CO
year: 2023
The ways of Eleusis were lost to history; now in this moment, the past is being revealed. Encased underground and locked away in hidden libraries for nearly two thousand years, the mysteries of our cultural roots are now finally being exposed. The tides are turning and with them, the unlocking of the universal balance that exists between chaos and the cosmos. The Kykeon spills out its truth to the playa.
URL: https://www.houseoffabl.com/
Contact: [email protected]
(My apologies to the Chalice to Eleusis team for not getting a great image of the piece)Chalice to Eleusis by Hunter Leggitt Jonathan Berry & House of Fābl
from: Denver, CO
year: 2023
The ways of Eleusis were lost to history; now in this moment, the past is being revealed. Encased underground and locked away in hidden libraries for nearly two thousand years, the mysteries of our cultural roots are now finally being exposed. The tides are turning and with them, the unlocking of the universal balance that exists between chaos and the cosmos. The Kykeon spills out its truth to the playa.
URL: https://www.houseoffabl.com/
Contact: [email protected]
(My apologies to the Chalice to Eleusis team for not getting a great image of the piece)Chalice to Eleusis by Hunter Leggitt Jonathan Berry & House of Fābl
from: Denver, CO
year: 2023
The ways of Eleusis were lost to history; now in this moment, the past is being revealed. Encased underground and locked away in hidden libraries for nearly two thousand years, the mysteries of our cultural roots are now finally being exposed. The tides are turning and with them, the unlocking of the universal balance that exists between chaos and the cosmos. The Kykeon spills out its truth to the playa.
URL: https://www.houseoffabl.com/
Contact: [email protected]
(My apologies to the Chalice to Eleusis team for not getting a great image of the piece)Skyspace – A Mediation pod inspired by James Turrell by Josephine Declerck
from: Paris, France
year: 2023
Love Pods are 2 art installations created by Josephine Declerck to offer safe, clean and private spaces for rest, meditation and intimacy at Burning Man, which are also real art experiences. Skyspace is located on Open Playa, while Infinity Mirror is located in BED, 6:15 and E.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lovepodsproject
Contact: [email protected]Breaking Open by Butterfly Heart Tribe
from: Topanga, CA
year: 2023
A broken heart stands as a chrysalis to new life within, a symbol of the potential for healing and transformation. The heart is ignited and as it burns away, it reveals the butterfly, now free to fly.
URL: https://www.breakingopen.org/
Contact: [email protected]Joyful Dragon CircusA VibeJoyful Dragon CircusThe Face Grinder by Adam Frey
from: Santa Cruz, CA
year: 2023
The Face Grinder is a mirrored helix, similar to a disco ball but shaped like a spiral, designed to spin in the wind. Its rotating facets create a mesmerizing, kaleidoscopic reflection of ambient imagery, color and light.
Contact: [email protected]Ascension
by: Friends of a Feather
from: South Lake Tahoe, CA
year: 2023
Ascension is intended to evoke dual meanings: The concepts of Spiritual and Astrological Ascensions.
This sculpture is a woman’s form suspended above the playa by wings that resemble a combination of silks and hawk wings representing Kelly’s passion for aerial arts and her beloved red-tailed hawk. The body will arch toward the sky, reaching for ascension.
The inspiration for this piece was born from the unexpected loss of a beloved community member last November. An accomplished aerialist, Kelly created a performance art community based out of her studio that has inspired students and collaborators of all ages to pursue their highest calling and connect with their true selves.Ascension
by: Friends of a Feather
from: South Lake Tahoe, CA
year: 2023
Ascension is intended to evoke dual meanings: The concepts of Spiritual and Astrological Ascensions.
This sculpture is a woman’s form suspended above the playa by wings that resemble a combination of silks and hawk wings representing Kelly’s passion for aerial arts and her beloved red-tailed hawk. The body will arch toward the sky, reaching for ascension.
The inspiration for this piece was born from the unexpected loss of a beloved community member last November. An accomplished aerialist, Kelly created a performance art community based out of her studio that has inspired students and collaborators of all ages to pursue their highest calling and connect with their true selves.Tree With White LeavesPopping BottlesSnow Koan Solar Array – A large solar array as shade structure. Look closely at the items you can charge at their charging station. lmao,Playa-Saurus Free TP!VRT Wants You!Zhina by Morteza Ansari and Konoon Studio
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Zhina was created to honor the women of Iran and the freedom movement they are leading. Zhina (Mahsa) Amini was killed by the morality police for not properly wearing her hijab. Her death sparked one of the most powerful uprisings in history led by women.
Zhina represents the freedom expressed in the hair flowing in the wind that has been a symbol of the movement from the beginning. Panels of red fabric covered with paintings, messages, and poetry created by a number of international artists, create passages for the audiences to explore. The audio/visual content designed to tell a more personal story of the movement. At the heart of the installation there will be an intimate space that will be a place to connect, reflect, share, and heal.
URL: https://zhinaart.com/
Contact: [email protected]Dusty DelightMy Dad’s HouseMy Dad’s House and Playa Pool TableHUBOWL
by: Laboratorio Mexicano de Diseño
from: México City, México
year: 2023
Hubowl is a 12 feet tall sculpture mainly crafted with fiberglass, wood and metal, with a “telescope” inside that allows people to interact with it by observing images of fantastic worlds, actual footage from Hubble telescope, or surroundings.
Owls are often used as a symbol of wisdom because of their big eyes that can gaze into the darkness of night. Hubowl expreses the importance of observation as means to gain wisdom, it doesn’t matter if you observe the fantastic, or the real, everything can build on wisdom in the observers mind.
Contact: [email protected]HUBOWL
by: Laboratorio Mexicano de Diseño
from: México City, México
year: 2023
Hubowl is a 12 feet tall sculpture mainly crafted with fiberglass, wood and metal, with a “telescope” inside that allows people to interact with it by observing images of fantastic worlds, actual footage from Hubble telescope, or surroundings.
Owls are often used as a symbol of wisdom because of their big eyes that can gaze into the darkness of night. Hubowl expreses the importance of observation as means to gain wisdom, it doesn’t matter if you observe the fantastic, or the real, everything can build on wisdom in the observers mind.
Contact: [email protected]Yuluka by Camilo Quimbayo / Santiago Caro
from: Bogotá, Colombia
year: 2023
¨Yuluka¨ means balance for Precolumbian indigenous communities descendants of the Tayronas; their cosmovision represents the concept of duality: The sun and the moon, light, and darkness, life and death.
All around the universe talks about duplicity and the natural opposites, which function as a way to maintain a universal and cosmic balance.
This concept is represented in a double head cayman forging a unique piece of goldsmith jewelry work on a large scale. Bringing to the deep playa a part of this magic animal ancient representation.
URL: http://www.yulukainstallation.com
Contact: [email protected]Yuluka by Camilo Quimbayo / Santiago Caro
from: Bogotá, Colombia
year: 2023
¨Yuluka¨ means balance for Precolumbian indigenous communities descendants of the Tayronas; their cosmovision represents the concept of duality: The sun and the moon, light, and darkness, life and death.
All around the universe talks about duplicity and the natural opposites, which function as a way to maintain a universal and cosmic balance.
This concept is represented in a double head cayman forging a unique piece of goldsmith jewelry work on a large scale. Bringing to the deep playa a part of this magic animal ancient representation.
URL: http://www.yulukainstallation.com
Contact: [email protected]Heartburst by Patrick Clements Jillian Leedy Shawn Gehle and Christian Roberts
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2023
“Heartburst” is a sizeable translucent heart firmly rooted into the Playa floor with bamboo scaffolding extruding from its core. The heart pulsates via embedded LEDs, alluding to blood pumping into and from the earth through one shared BRC heart. The heart is concave, allowing participants to walk or cuddle within its core and reset within its slowly pulsating sound and light.Dusk PanoramaLovely Burners – Nice to meet you!Burners Having a Good TimeSixLovely BurnerPolymery Bitcube and RazorbackLovely Burners – So awesome to see you again! Much love from this side of the internet.Polymery by Taylor Dean Harrison
from: Penngrove, CA
year: 2023
Polymery is an installation of five sculptures that cast light and shadow far and wide creating a patterned field of constantly evolving color mixing on the ground. During the day, the flower-like pods invite the viewer to look upwards at their curving, mirrored surfaces to see warped reflections of the environment. At night, the flowers ‘bloom’ into a larger installation, each pod casting its petals onto the ground and inspiring exploration.
URL: https://www.taylordeanharrison.com/portfolio-item/polymery/
Contact: [email protected]When People Ask Me To Take Their Photo – The Answer is always YES!2 and Esplanade3 and SurroundsLovely Burner230 and Surrounding AreaLovely BurnerGood TimesLovely BurnerTemple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]1000 Hands by: Nicholas DeBruyne & Maria Gotay with Wevolve Labs & Art Island
from: Austin, TX
year: 2023
This 50′ tall collective tapestry illustrating a world on fire stands as one of the largest & most vivid works at Burning Man, transforming shape by desert winds and participant interaction.
By day, the work depicts a fiery landscape, sparking reflection of our climate reality. At night, a serene scene illuminates in light, inspiring waking dreams of a hope-filled future.
Participants are able to swing from the base of the tapestry and experience the sensation of “the world on their shoulders,” witnessing the ripple effect of their actions displayed on a monumental scale.
As the name “1000 Hands” suggests, over 500 participants co-created this artwork, forming a community for whom the process was equally as important as the final product.
URL: https://1000handsart.com/
Contact: [email protected]Lovely BurnersBlack Rock Station by Black Rock Transportation Company
from: Felton, CA
year: 2023
Black Rock Station is a classic rural train station built in the mid-1930s to serve Black Rock City and the communities scattered throughout the vast Black Rock Desert. The station has come unstuck in time, unstable and oscillating through various moments over the last 150 years and beyond, with ghost trains heard but not seen, an ever-shifting interior life, and a subtle narrative that cuts against conventional historical themes.
URL: https://blackrocktrainstation.com/
Contact: [email protected]MaxaBurning Man Panorama DuskTemple Anam Cara by A Celtic Light and Obsydian Studios creation
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Anam Cara is an ancient Celtic phrase referring to the concept of the “soul friend” in spirituality. Temple Anam Cara intertwines a Celtic Tree of Life upon an Aztec Step Pyramid, an homage to the ancestral heritages of our co-creators. The shared belief in this concept has inspired the creation of this sculpture. We recognize that the path of wisdom is woven by countless cultures and civilizations, each offering unique insights into the nature of existence – to celebrate the shared connections of our Soul Friends that have guided and inspired deeper connections to the universe’s beauty. At the heart of Temple Anam Cara lies a deep belief in the unity of love, light, and consciousness—a recognition that all ancient traditions converge in their quest for higher truth. The base sanctuary is adorned by murals, mirrors and LEDs to welcome all to offered experiences. This sculpture is a creation in honor of the indigenous wisdom embraced by the creators of Temple Anam Cara, a shared expression of love of community, life and earth.
www.templeanamcara.com
URL: https://obsydianstudios.com/
Contact: [email protected]Lovely BurnerTemple Anam Cara by A Celtic Light and Obsydian Studios creation
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Anam Cara is an ancient Celtic phrase referring to the concept of the “soul friend” in spirituality. Temple Anam Cara intertwines a Celtic Tree of Life upon an Aztec Step Pyramid, an homage to the ancestral heritages of our co-creators. The shared belief in this concept has inspired the creation of this sculpture. We recognize that the path of wisdom is woven by countless cultures and civilizations, each offering unique insights into the nature of existence – to celebrate the shared connections of our Soul Friends that have guided and inspired deeper connections to the universe’s beauty. At the heart of Temple Anam Cara lies a deep belief in the unity of love, light, and consciousness—a recognition that all ancient traditions converge in their quest for higher truth. The base sanctuary is adorned by murals, mirrors and LEDs to welcome all to offered experiences. This sculpture is a creation in honor of the indigenous wisdom embraced by the creators of Temple Anam Cara, a shared expression of love of community, life and earth.
www.templeanamcara.com
URL: https://obsydianstudios.com/
Contact: [email protected]Chapel of Babel and Inner PlayaBest Outfits Official Prize Winners 2023™Best Outfits Official Prize Winners 2023™Best Outfits Official Prize Winners 2023™Wedding at Vanishing PointsTemple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Lovely BurnerTemple Spire and Busy Inner PlayaLovely BurnersTemple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Lovely BurnerButterfly Effect Catalyst – Always nice to see you bringing joy out there.Lovely BurnersMaxaNot Enough Life Jackets – My dad if he saw these guys. The wakeboard at the back and the disco balls is a nice touch,YesYesYesDrawn the the Absurd – For some reason I’m drawn to the absurd out here. I don’t know if this is a staff vehicle or why there is a mannequin with a shark head on a limo at the trash fence but it’s fun.Serpent QueenDeep Playa Sunrises FTWLovely BurnerBlack Rock Station by Black Rock Transportation Company
from: Felton, CA
year: 2023
Black Rock Station is a classic rural train station built in the mid-1930s to serve Black Rock City and the communities scattered throughout the vast Black Rock Desert. The station has come unstuck in time, unstable and oscillating through various moments over the last 150 years and beyond, with ghost trains heard but not seen, an ever-shifting interior life, and a subtle narrative that cuts against conventional historical themes.
URL: https://blackrocktrainstation.com/
Contact: [email protected]Lovely Burner HugSuperior (Mother) by: Kate Kuaimoku
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2023
Mother (Superior) is an optical illusion, ripples of light reflected in the hot desert air. She consists of a series of rotating, reflective, stainless steel stems.
Each stem is made of a bent steel tube, rotating and centered upon steel plates as bases. Her poles are bent to create organic, asymmetrical shapes; these create a pattern of disruption along the horizon line. With all her arms moving, Mother (Superior) will be Black Rock City’s first three-dimensional, moving mirage.
URL: https://katekuaimoku.com/superiormother
Contact: [email protected]Field of Flowers by JOBI
from: Treasure Island, CA
year: 2023
In Field of Flowers, you’ll notice a beautiful garden of approximately 150 electronic singing flowers. Walking through the garden, you’ll realize that the flowers are reacting to your movements with waves of color and sound, creating a truly immersive experience. By changing direction and walking at different speeds, you can guide the waves and create beautiful interference effects with other people. It’s as if you’re a pollinator gliding through these Nevada native flowers. With its emphasis on movement and cooperation, Field of Flowers provides a unique and interactive experience that is sure to leave a lasting impression on all who encounter it.
URL: https://www.campjobi.com/index.html
Contact: [email protected]Blastoff by Weld Queen
from: Planet Earth
year: 2023
The art object consists of two installations. It’s Airfield for Walking in the Clouds, created at the Burning Man 2019, a small airfield with 2 takeoff and landing pads, a waiting area, and a brightly lit runway. This airfield is home to 10 cloud-seating seats. These are airplane chairs can be physically boarded and rocked for “flying” and watching the sunrise.
The second one is Blastoff, a new object, which is both an airplane and a tower blasting vertically upwards into the sky. Its spiral staircase can be climbed, then, from the wings, opens a view of Playa. The fiery tent-tail saves from the heat, residents can drink tea and take shelter from the scorching sun. The object allows to freely get off the ground and fly toward your dreams.
URL: http://weldqueen.com/project/blastoff/?lang=en
Contact: [email protected]Marian is Watching 장님이 코끼리 만지는 격이다
I believe the text (in Korean) refers to the parable of the blind men and an elephant.
The parable describes several blind people who each touch a different part of an elephant to learn what it’s like. Each one feels a different part (e.g., the trunk, leg, tail) and concludes it’s something different (e.g., a snake, tree, rope). The moral of the story (according to the AI that wrote this little write up of the parable): Limited perspectives can lead to incomplete or incorrect understandings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
Surely the people who made these posters also have the same limited perspective no? Aren’t we all those same blind people with our own little view of what Burning Man is? So many questions! I probably don’t know the context here but I feel like this might just be a meme from the Renegade Burn of 2021. I’m all for subversive art just not singling out individuals. Then again the CEO role comes with that. Can you tell I’m conflicted about this?!I Still Love You – Artist Name UnknownPlayAlchemistMike BeachName Unknown – They projected animations on this and it looked incredible.Vampire Empire – I’m not sure but I think this is Vampire EmpireOctopus GardenNosotres by Brenden Darby, Simón Malvaez, Ollie Newth, Evan Connelly, Sergio Garrido-Ramirez, and Cruz Ramirez
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
NOSOTRES is a monument to the ancient history of the queer community. Standing at 50′ tall with depictions of nonbinary faces and Mictlan (The Aztec Underworld) this evolution of our 2022 Burning Man Piece, THEM, Serves as a reminder that queer people have been here since the beginning of time. Queerness represents our past, present and future and we honor the many deaths of our past selves that help us move forward.
Contact: [email protected]BRC AerialAerial Photo of Inner PlayaLooking Down 6Center Camp to Point 3BRC NightsTemple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]The Hedgehog Temple by Yaroslav Korets, Kurenivka
from: Kyiv, Ukraine
year: 2023
The Hedgehog Temple is a powerful, visually striking tribute to the diverse Ukrainian creative community members who bravely defended their country during the war, including DJs, musicians, artists, journalists, and film directors. It encourages visitors to contemplate the sacrifices made by these individuals and the significance of community, support, and dedication.
This installation, composed of a cluster of anti-tank hedgehogs, forms an abstract figure that evokes both an animal hedgehog and a looming thundercloud, which often carries a foreboding threat. For Ukrainians, these anti-tank hedgehogs symbolize protection and unity. During the early days of the war, ordinary Ukrainians created thousands of hedgehogs from three sections of iron I-beams welded together to safeguard their communities.
Inside the Temple, visitors can uncover stories of war victims who dreamt of attending Burning Man and pay tribute to the thousands of courageous and talented individuals the Ukrainian creative community lost due to the war. Through this installation, the artists seek to express gratitude for those who lost their lives defending their homeland and those who continue to stand guard. The Hedgehog Temple represents hope and resilience, reminding us that the human spirit can triumph even in the darkest times.
URL: https://kurenivka.ua/temple
Contact: [email protected]PādaPagoda by dawn jian and the PādaP’goda Collective
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
PādaPagoda is a 27’x21’ double-layered kinetic pagoda which explores the dynamics of social interaction, interdependence, and expressions of AAPI heritage outside of Asia. The experience of being Asian American often leads to the formation of a presentable facade, one which masks a deeper expression of our true emotions. The feeling of inner turmoil tucked away is represented in the construction of a rotating inner core built within a static envelope. A climbable ladder at the center of the core is available only to those who can find their way into the heart pillar and ascend amidst the movement, symbolizing a journey of grounding into one’s truth regardless of external influences. The majority of the structure is created from bamboo, a sustainable material which has roots in many Asian countries. This piece creates an interactive third space where aspects of our cultural heritage can be re-imagined and shared.
URL: instagram.com/padapgoda
Contact: [email protected]Blastoff by Weld Queen
from: Planet Earth
year: 2023
The art object consists of two installations. It’s Airfield for Walking in the Clouds, created at the Burning Man 2019, a small airfield with 2 takeoff and landing pads, a waiting area, and a brightly lit runway. This airfield is home to 10 cloud-seating seats. These are airplane chairs can be physically boarded and rocked for “flying” and watching the sunrise.
The second one is Blastoff, a new object, which is both an airplane and a tower blasting vertically upwards into the sky. Its spiral staircase can be climbed, then, from the wings, opens a view of Playa. The fiery tent-tail saves from the heat, residents can drink tea and take shelter from the scorching sun. The object allows to freely get off the ground and fly toward your dreams.
URL: http://weldqueen.com/project/blastoff/?lang=en
Contact: [email protected]Blastoff by Weld Queen
from: Planet Earth
year: 2023
The art object consists of two installations. It’s Airfield for Walking in the Clouds, created at the Burning Man 2019, a small airfield with 2 takeoff and landing pads, a waiting area, and a brightly lit runway. This airfield is home to 10 cloud-seating seats. These are airplane chairs can be physically boarded and rocked for “flying” and watching the sunrise.
The second one is Blastoff, a new object, which is both an airplane and a tower blasting vertically upwards into the sky. Its spiral staircase can be climbed, then, from the wings, opens a view of Playa. The fiery tent-tail saves from the heat, residents can drink tea and take shelter from the scorching sun. The object allows to freely get off the ground and fly toward your dreams.
URL: http://weldqueen.com/project/blastoff/?lang=en
Contact: [email protected]Blastoff by Weld Queen
from: Planet Earth
year: 2023
The art object consists of two installations. It’s Airfield for Walking in the Clouds, created at the Burning Man 2019, a small airfield with 2 takeoff and landing pads, a waiting area, and a brightly lit runway. This airfield is home to 10 cloud-seating seats. These are airplane chairs can be physically boarded and rocked for “flying” and watching the sunrise.
The second one is Blastoff, a new object, which is both an airplane and a tower blasting vertically upwards into the sky. Its spiral staircase can be climbed, then, from the wings, opens a view of Playa. The fiery tent-tail saves from the heat, residents can drink tea and take shelter from the scorching sun. The object allows to freely get off the ground and fly toward your dreams.
URL: http://weldqueen.com/project/blastoff/?lang=en
Contact: [email protected]Blastoff by Weld Queen
from: Planet Earth
year: 2023
The art object consists of two installations. It’s Airfield for Walking in the Clouds, created at the Burning Man 2019, a small airfield with 2 takeoff and landing pads, a waiting area, and a brightly lit runway. This airfield is home to 10 cloud-seating seats. These are airplane chairs can be physically boarded and rocked for “flying” and watching the sunrise.
The second one is Blastoff, a new object, which is both an airplane and a tower blasting vertically upwards into the sky. Its spiral staircase can be climbed, then, from the wings, opens a view of Playa. The fiery tent-tail saves from the heat, residents can drink tea and take shelter from the scorching sun. The object allows to freely get off the ground and fly toward your dreams.
URL: http://weldqueen.com/project/blastoff/?lang=en
Contact: [email protected]Heartburst by Patrick Clements Jillian Leedy Shawn Gehle and Christian Roberts
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2023
“Heartburst” is a sizeable translucent heart firmly rooted into the Playa floor with bamboo scaffolding extruding from its core. The heart pulsates via embedded LEDs, alluding to blood pumping into and from the earth through one shared BRC heart. The heart is concave, allowing participants to walk or cuddle within its core and reset within its slowly pulsating sound and light.Red Hot BeverlyTitianic’s End and Over Ruled (NO DANCING)1000 & 1
by: Tyler Fuqua Creations
from: Eagle Creek, OR
year: 2023
Mechan 1 & Mechan 1000 – Two robots frozen in time. One is made of metal and appears fresh off the factory line and one seems to be an ancient prototype for it is made of wood. Both robots have a hand outstretched towards the other with a finger pointing right at the opposing robot. The metal one holds an axe. The wooden one holds a wrench. Are they here to fight? Did they some how create each other? And where did they come from? Who built them? So many questions that can be answered with a bit of creative sleuthing.
URL: http://www.tylerfuquacreations.com/1000&1
Contact: [email protected]The Ursas by Jen Lewin
from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2023
Named after the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, The Ursas features two towering polar bears. In 2022, Ursa Minor, a 13-foot tall sculpture debuted on playa. Inspired by Polaris, the work’s glowing and multi-paneled infinity-mirrored body reminds us to “Look Up.”
In 2023 Ursa Minor will return, but this time with her big sister. Standing over three stories tall, Ursa Major’s hollow body is filled with glowing infinity mirrors, each reflecting mosaic drawings of extinct animals from the past 12 months.
The pair, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, stand in solidarity.
Ursa Minor in hope, looking up.
Ursa Major, as a cathedral and tomb, to species lost.
URL: https://www.jenlewinstudio.com/portfolio/ursa-minor/
Contact: [email protected]Burden of The Beast by Walker Babington
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2023
“Burden of The Beast,” is a fantastical folk art sculpture depicting a bison with a house at its torso. It symbolizes the task of relocating one’s intrinsic understanding of ‘home.’
Both the bison & the house are made with materials from New Orleans structures which have been destroyed by climate disasters, as though the pieces of a fallen home had the sentience and will to collect what could be salvaged, stand up, and head toward higher ground.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sabatomstudios/
Contact: [email protected]Temple Moon and Mutant VehicleConversation with a Squad by Alexia DeFluff and Les Flans Cocos
from: Les Roches l’Evêque, France
year: 2023
Conversation with a squad consists of a small squad of squids eager to engage in conversation with humans, using light as their visual language. In front of them is a communication device; a human to squid translator. Thanks to this intriguing machine, it becomes possible to dialogue with the squids in bioluminescent signals. We will then witness a small shoal of humans who discuss through light signals to a shoal of squid. But do our little humans even realize that they themselves use light to communicate with their peers and try to attract breeding partners, with their costumes covered in LEDs and luminous accessories?
Contact: [email protected]Monaco and MoonAmun-Ra by David aiu Servan-Schreiber
from: London, United Kingdom
year: 2023
Amun-Ra, an art installation by David aiu Servan-Schreiber, stands as a 15ft cubic structure that encases a central golden planet. This striking piece links spirituality and sustainability. Powered by solar panels for illumination, Amun-Ra promotes the use of renewable energy
As participants walk around the structure, they are encouraged to reflect on the interconnectedness of all living beings and their environmental responsibilities. The installation fosters connections and raises awareness about sustainability through observation and discussion, without requiring direct physical interaction. Amun-Ra serves as a testament to the profound gratitude for our planet.
Contact: [email protected]DistriktLovely BurnerDistriktLovely BurnerDistriktLovely BurnerPedro The Cactus by The Cactus Team Tanny Onsalo Boris Dore and Jeremy Kenigsman
from: Paris, France
year: 2023
Is a nomad Art project designed to be placed in deep playa for the 2023 Animalia Burn. Brought as a walk-in art project traveling across the Atlantic all the way from the city of love, PARIS- France.
“You Get what you Give” The 1,70mts tall cactus will represent the 10 principles of the burn in some form or an other.
Inspired by the viral children’s toy cactus that reproduces the sounds it is fed, The CACTUS has as purpose to inspire words and acts of kindness from each Burner in its path.
URL: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vxPIW2lop_2_K5XnCRBHSupJkfWjIOnd_Jy0D-SU65c/edit?pli=1#slide=id.p
Contact: [email protected]Lovely Burner1000 Hands by: Nicholas DeBruyne & Maria Gotay with Wevolve Labs & Art Island
from: Austin, TX
year: 2023
This 50′ tall collective tapestry illustrating a world on fire stands as one of the largest & most vivid works at Burning Man, transforming shape by desert winds and participant interaction.
By day, the work depicts a fiery landscape, sparking reflection of our climate reality. At night, a serene scene illuminates in light, inspiring waking dreams of a hope-filled future.
Participants are able to swing from the base of the tapestry and experience the sensation of “the world on their shoulders,” witnessing the ripple effect of their actions displayed on a monumental scale.
As the name “1000 Hands” suggests, over 500 participants co-created this artwork, forming a community for whom the process was equally as important as the final product.
URL: https://1000handsart.com/
Contact: [email protected]These Guys Insisted I Take Their PhotoBlastoff by Weld Queen
from: Planet Earth
year: 2023
The art object consists of two installations. It’s Airfield for Walking in the Clouds, created at the Burning Man 2019, a small airfield with 2 takeoff and landing pads, a waiting area, and a brightly lit runway. This airfield is home to 10 cloud-seating seats. These are airplane chairs can be physically boarded and rocked for “flying” and watching the sunrise.
The second one is Blastoff, a new object, which is both an airplane and a tower blasting vertically upwards into the sky. Its spiral staircase can be climbed, then, from the wings, opens a view of Playa. The fiery tent-tail saves from the heat, residents can drink tea and take shelter from the scorching sun. The object allows to freely get off the ground and fly toward your dreams.
URL: http://weldqueen.com/project/blastoff/?lang=en
Contact: [email protected]Lovely BurnerLovely BurnerBlastoff by Weld Queen
from: Planet Earth
year: 2023
The art object consists of two installations. It’s Airfield for Walking in the Clouds, created at the Burning Man 2019, a small airfield with 2 takeoff and landing pads, a waiting area, and a brightly lit runway. This airfield is home to 10 cloud-seating seats. These are airplane chairs can be physically boarded and rocked for “flying” and watching the sunrise.
The second one is Blastoff, a new object, which is both an airplane and a tower blasting vertically upwards into the sky. Its spiral staircase can be climbed, then, from the wings, opens a view of Playa. The fiery tent-tail saves from the heat, residents can drink tea and take shelter from the scorching sun. The object allows to freely get off the ground and fly toward your dreams.
URL: http://weldqueen.com/project/blastoff/?lang=en
Contact: [email protected]Lovely BurnerYuluka by Camilo Quimbayo / Santiago Caro
from: Bogotá, Colombia
year: 2023
¨Yuluka¨ means balance for Precolumbian indigenous communities descendants of the Tayronas; their cosmovision represents the concept of duality: The sun and the moon, light, and darkness, life and death.
All around the universe talks about duplicity and the natural opposites, which function as a way to maintain a universal and cosmic balance.
This concept is represented in a double head cayman forging a unique piece of goldsmith jewelry work on a large scale. Bringing to the deep playa a part of this magic animal ancient representation.
URL: http://www.yulukainstallation.com
Contact: [email protected]Yuluka by Camilo Quimbayo / Santiago Caro
from: Bogotá, Colombia
year: 2023
¨Yuluka¨ means balance for Precolumbian indigenous communities descendants of the Tayronas; their cosmovision represents the concept of duality: The sun and the moon, light, and darkness, life and death.
All around the universe talks about duplicity and the natural opposites, which function as a way to maintain a universal and cosmic balance.
This concept is represented in a double head cayman forging a unique piece of goldsmith jewelry work on a large scale. Bringing to the deep playa a part of this magic animal ancient representation.
URL: http://www.yulukainstallation.com
Contact: [email protected]Maxa and Bike ReefTrash Fence At DawnPoint 3 at DawnBitCube by Colin O’Donnell
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
BitCube is an interactive installation that transforms 224 standard IBC water totes into single pixels in a massive low-resolution cube display towering 30 feet over the desert. The installation creates a minimalist, abstract visual narrative that defies the ubiquity of hi-res displays. BitCube embraces the limitations of a low-res medium and encourages viewers to find beauty in simplicity. The installation’s audio-reactive capabilities reflect the collective heartbeat of the Burning Man community. Light patterns range from abstract shapes to minimalist representations of life and energy, resonating with Burning Man’s spirit of creativity, self-expression, and community in a stripped-down interplay of light, space, and perception.
Contact: [email protected]Museum of No Spectators by John Marx and Absinthia Vermut
from: San Francisco & Oakland, CA
year: 2023
Out in the dusty playa of Black Rock City lies a different kind of museum. As you approach this intriguing and mysterious building with its unusually shaped galleries, appearing part machine, part creature, part abstract and surrealistic form. It may appear as a blank slate, the letters spelling Museum of No Spectators hovering above. Its dynamic shapes appear otherworldly yet grounded. It is waiting for you to approach and become a part of it. MoNS encourages participants to enter through its Gifting Shop, where you will be assisted in making a gift before entering. The building guides you along, as a partially covered hallway leads you to galleries on either side, until you have spent time in all eight galleries.
URL: https://www.themuseumofnospectators.com/
Contact: [email protected]BitCube by Colin O’Donnell
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
BitCube is an interactive installation that transforms 224 standard IBC water totes into single pixels in a massive low-resolution cube display towering 30 feet over the desert. The installation creates a minimalist, abstract visual narrative that defies the ubiquity of hi-res displays. BitCube embraces the limitations of a low-res medium and encourages viewers to find beauty in simplicity. The installation’s audio-reactive capabilities reflect the collective heartbeat of the Burning Man community. Light patterns range from abstract shapes to minimalist representations of life and energy, resonating with Burning Man’s spirit of creativity, self-expression, and community in a stripped-down interplay of light, space, and perception.
Contact: [email protected]Perception III by Dave Clay
from: Seattle, WA
year: 2023
Perception is an interactive light sculpture made up of transparent windows spread out in a spiral-circular space. The windows shift colors, inviting people to look through windows at each other. As they engage, the colors respond, interacting with the windows around in light reverberations. As more people interact with windows, these reverberations overlap to produce new colors and patterns that can reach out to the entire space.
This piece reminds us to acknowledge perception of reality is based. on interactions with the environment and with each other. It encourages us to play with how we see each other, how things look different based on who we are and where we are at in our lives.
URL: https://www.daveclay.com/burning-man-2023
Contact: [email protected]Vanishing Points by Poetic KineticsThe ManThe Man at DuskChalice to Eleusis by Hunter Leggitt Jonathan Berry & House of Fābl (Build Week)
from: Denver, CO
year: 2023
The ways of Eleusis were lost to history; now in this moment, the past is being revealed. Encased underground and locked away in hidden libraries for nearly two thousand years, the mysteries of our cultural roots are now finally being exposed. The tides are turning and with them, the unlocking of the universal balance that exists between chaos and the cosmos. The Kykeon spills out its truth to the playa.
URL: https://www.houseoffabl.com/
Contact: [email protected]Superior (Mother) by: Kate Kuaimoku
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2023
Mother (Superior) is an optical illusion, ripples of light reflected in the hot desert air. She consists of a series of rotating, reflective, stainless steel stems.
Each stem is made of a bent steel tube, rotating and centered upon steel plates as bases. Her poles are bent to create organic, asymmetrical shapes; these create a pattern of disruption along the horizon line. With all her arms moving, Mother (Superior) will be Black Rock City’s first three-dimensional, moving mirage.
URL: https://katekuaimoku.com/superiormother
Contact: [email protected]Temple Anam Cara by A Celtic Light and Obsydian Studios creation
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Anam Cara is an ancient Celtic phrase referring to the concept of the “soul friend” in spirituality. Temple Anam Cara intertwines a Celtic Tree of Life upon an Aztec Step Pyramid, an homage to the ancestral heritages of our co-creators. The shared belief in this concept has inspired the creation of this sculpture. We recognize that the path of wisdom is woven by countless cultures and civilizations, each offering unique insights into the nature of existence – to celebrate the shared connections of our Soul Friends that have guided and inspired deeper connections to the universe’s beauty. At the heart of Temple Anam Cara lies a deep belief in the unity of love, light, and consciousness—a recognition that all ancient traditions converge in their quest for higher truth. The base sanctuary is adorned by murals, mirrors and LEDs to welcome all to offered experiences. This sculpture is a creation in honor of the indigenous wisdom embraced by the creators of Temple Anam Cara, a shared expression of love of community, life and earth.
www.templeanamcara.com
URL: https://obsydianstudios.com/
Contact: [email protected]Vanishing Points by Poetic KineticsTower of Tooter by Robert & Penny Cox
from: Kalama, WA
year: 2023
“Tower of Tooter” is a vibrant 13′ tower of 20 wooden musical pipes actuated with eight human-powered air pumps. Colorful lighting and gothic decorations add to the brightly painted beams cut from last year’s “Hooter Tooter”. The “Tower of Tooter” arouses the senses both visually and aurally, luring burners to gather playfully and have fun creating music and cacophony with this unique instrument.Burners at PlayBurners at PlayFlipping Tables at the Grilled Cheese ExperimentFlipping Tables at the Grilled Cheese ExperimentFlipping Tables at the Grilled Cheese ExperimentBRC Dusk PanoramaChapel of Babel by: Michael Garlington from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]The ManDistriktDistriktDistriktDistriktZhina by Morteza Ansari and Konoon Studio
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Zhina was created to honor the women of Iran and the freedom movement they are leading. Zhina (Mahsa) Amini was killed by the morality police for not properly wearing her hijab. Her death sparked one of the most powerful uprisings in history led by women.
Zhina represents the freedom expressed in the hair flowing in the wind that has been a symbol of the movement from the beginning. Panels of red fabric covered with paintings, messages, and poetry created by a number of international artists, create passages for the audiences to explore. The audio/visual content designed to tell a more personal story of the movement. At the heart of the installation there will be an intimate space that will be a place to connect, reflect, share, and heal.
URL: https://zhinaart.com/
Contact: [email protected]Tip of the Iceberg
by: Melissa Syn Barron
from: Oakland & Big Sur, CA
year: 2023
Conventional wisdom is that the Clitoris is a small fleshy nub under a labial hood at the top of the vulva – but the truth is that tiny head is just the tip of the Clitoral iceberg. The complete Clitoral anatomical structure – including veins, nerves & their functions – was suppressed, omitted or marginalized until recently. Monumentalizing this misunderstood & mysterious piece of anatomy, we hope our sculpture will educate, empower, & honor its rightful place in biology.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/tip.ofthe_iceberg
Contact: [email protected]Polymery by Taylor Dean Harrison
from: Penngrove, CA
year: 2023
Polymery is an installation of five sculptures that cast light and shadow far and wide creating a patterned field of constantly evolving color mixing on the ground. During the day, the flower-like pods invite the viewer to look upwards at their curving, mirrored surfaces to see warped reflections of the environment. At night, the flowers ‘bloom’ into a larger installation, each pod casting its petals onto the ground and inspiring exploration.
URL: https://www.taylordeanharrison.com/portfolio-item/polymery/
Contact: [email protected]Cactus of Life. A Mirror of truth. Awaken your true self by David Lombrozo, Tania Ordoñez, Pablo Fernandez and Humberto Wong
from: México City, México
year: 2023
Cactus of Life is a sculptural piece that offers a glimpse inside of oneself. The Mexican traditional Tree of Life and the iconic cactus come together as one. Here all are welcome to see themselves as they are, no prejudice. By doing so, all can share a better version of their self with the world.
The first symbol comes from the Mexican artisan tradition of the “Tree of Life.” Made of clay, this tree is adorned with many figures related to different themes such as the sun and the moon.
The second symbol is a cactus, the desert plant that survives harsh conditions and welcomes all beings who come to find life. Cacti also contain psychedelic properties that help the recipient to see inside themselves.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/cactus.of.life/
Contact: [email protected]Burden of The Beast by Walker Babington
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2023
“Burden of The Beast,” is a fantastical folk art sculpture depicting a bison with a house at its torso. It symbolizes the task of relocating one’s intrinsic understanding of ‘home.’
Both the bison & the house are made with materials from New Orleans structures which have been destroyed by climate disasters, as though the pieces of a fallen home had the sentience and will to collect what could be salvaged, stand up, and head toward higher ground.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sabatomstudios/
Contact: [email protected]BRC Esplanade and StreetsBlastoff by Weld Queen
from: Planet Earth
year: 2023
The art object consists of two installations. It’s Airfield for Walking in the Clouds, created at the Burning Man 2019, a small airfield with 2 takeoff and landing pads, a waiting area, and a brightly lit runway. This airfield is home to 10 cloud-seating seats. These are airplane chairs can be physically boarded and rocked for “flying” and watching the sunrise.
The second one is Blastoff, a new object, which is both an airplane and a tower blasting vertically upwards into the sky. Its spiral staircase can be climbed, then, from the wings, opens a view of Playa. The fiery tent-tail saves from the heat, residents can drink tea and take shelter from the scorching sun. The object allows to freely get off the ground and fly toward your dreams.
URL: http://weldqueen.com/project/blastoff/?lang=en
Contact: [email protected]Black Rock Station by Black Rock Transportation Company
from: Felton, CA
year: 2023
Black Rock Station is a classic rural train station built in the mid-1930s to serve Black Rock City and the communities scattered throughout the vast Black Rock Desert. The station has come unstuck in time, unstable and oscillating through various moments over the last 150 years and beyond, with ghost trains heard but not seen, an ever-shifting interior life, and a subtle narrative that cuts against conventional historical themes.
URL: https://blackrocktrainstation.com/
Contact: [email protected]Black Rock Station by Black Rock Transportation Company
from: Felton, CA
year: 2023
Black Rock Station is a classic rural train station built in the mid-1930s to serve Black Rock City and the communities scattered throughout the vast Black Rock Desert. The station has come unstuck in time, unstable and oscillating through various moments over the last 150 years and beyond, with ghost trains heard but not seen, an ever-shifting interior life, and a subtle narrative that cuts against conventional historical themes.
URL: https://blackrocktrainstation.com/
Contact: [email protected]Valerian Steel and Amun-RaThe Sky Rabbit’s HouseNothing For Sale by fnnch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
“Nothing For Sale” is about Decommodification. The tube dancer is the ultimate symbol of commodification — it exists solely to advertise and promote. But it is also a joyous object, full of color and motion. “Nothing For Sale” liberates this symbol and its beauty. It subverts the original meaning of the object and highlights Decommodification by juxtaposing a commercial symbol with non-commercial language.Recyclosaurus Renocores (aka R2) by Reno Core Project
from: Reno, NV
year: 2023
We envision a dinosaur that will have characteristics taken from many species and eras, built from recycled metal. Partly skeletal, partly skinned, partly feathered. Current plan is a backbone with Stegosaurus type spines that will have flame effects, as well as sound and lighting effects trigger some type of participant interaction. We plan to place “eggs” (colored rocks) around the playa that the R2 can visually recognize as they are found and placed into its nest. We will redistribute the eggs daily for participants to find and interact with.
URL: http://renocore.org/core/
Contact: [email protected]Alight by Trey Watkins, Mara Greenberg, Alan Becker and the Frogma Art Collective
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2023
Alight is a flock of birds, a bridge. Birds of all shapes, cultures, and histories. A bridge that is traversable, reactive, and punctuated by fluttering in flames. The structure will respond to participants crossing. The form invites flight. Its transience will culminate with its immolation at the end of the week.
URL: http://onemandown.com/Chapel of Babel by Michael Garlington
from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Chapel of Babel by Michael Garlington
from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Polymery by Taylor Dean Harrison
from: Penngrove, CA
year: 2023
Polymery is an installation of five sculptures that cast light and shadow far and wide creating a patterned field of constantly evolving color mixing on the ground. During the day, the flower-like pods invite the viewer to look upwards at their curving, mirrored surfaces to see warped reflections of the environment. At night, the flowers ‘bloom’ into a larger installation, each pod casting its petals onto the ground and inspiring exploration.
URL: https://www.taylordeanharrison.com/portfolio-item/polymery/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]The Man and the DustJíbaro Soy… by Mark Rivera aka Kidnetick
from: Bayamón, Puerto Rico
year: 2023
A large scale sculpture of a shameless Jíbaro reveling where and what its made of, inspired by a song of protest written by composer Raphy Leavitt expresses anti-colonialism and freedom to be respected for whom he is and where his from.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/kidnetick/
Contact: [email protected]Burden of The Beast by Walker Babington
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2023
“Burden of The Beast,” is a fantastical folk art sculpture depicting a bison with a house at its torso. It symbolizes the task of relocating one’s intrinsic understanding of ‘home.’
Both the bison & the house are made with materials from New Orleans structures which have been destroyed by climate disasters, as though the pieces of a fallen home had the sentience and will to collect what could be salvaged, stand up, and head toward higher ground.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sabatomstudios/
Contact: [email protected]Burden of The Beast by Walker Babington
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2023
“Burden of The Beast,” is a fantastical folk art sculpture depicting a bison with a house at its torso. It symbolizes the task of relocating one’s intrinsic understanding of ‘home.’
Both the bison & the house are made with materials from New Orleans structures which have been destroyed by climate disasters, as though the pieces of a fallen home had the sentience and will to collect what could be salvaged, stand up, and head toward higher ground.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sabatomstudios/
Contact: [email protected]Burden of The Beast by Walker Babington
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2023
“Burden of The Beast,” is a fantastical folk art sculpture depicting a bison with a house at its torso. It symbolizes the task of relocating one’s intrinsic understanding of ‘home.’
Both the bison & the house are made with materials from New Orleans structures which have been destroyed by climate disasters, as though the pieces of a fallen home had the sentience and will to collect what could be salvaged, stand up, and head toward higher ground.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sabatomstudios/
Contact: [email protected]Cactus of Life. A Mirror of truth. Awaken your true self by David Lombrozo Tania OrdoñezPablo Fernandez and Humberto Wong
from: México City, México
year: 2023
Cactus of Life is a sculptural piece that offers a glimpse inside of oneself. The Mexican traditional Tree of Life and the iconic cactus come together as one. Here all are welcome to see themselves as they are, no prejudice. By doing so, all can share a better version of their self with the world.
The first symbol comes from the Mexican artisan tradition of the “Tree of Life.” Made of clay, this tree is adorned with many figures related to different themes such as the sun and the moon.
The second symbol is a cactus, the desert plant that survives harsh conditions and welcomes all beings who come to find life. Cacti also contain psychedelic properties that help the recipient to see inside themselves.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/cactus.of.life/
Contact: [email protected]Burner Family Walking Bikes1000 & 1
by: Tyler Fuqua Creations
from: Eagle Creek, OR
year: 2023
Mechan 1 & Mechan 1000 – Two robots frozen in time. One is made of metal and appears fresh off the factory line and one seems to be an ancient prototype for it is made of wood. Both robots have a hand outstretched towards the other with a finger pointing right at the opposing robot. The metal one holds an axe. The wooden one holds a wrench. Are they here to fight? Did they some how create each other? And where did they come from? Who built them? So many questions that can be answered with a bit of creative sleuthing.
URL: http://www.tylerfuquacreations.com/1000&1
Contact: [email protected]1000 & 1
by: Tyler Fuqua Creations
from: Eagle Creek, OR
year: 2023
Mechan 1 & Mechan 1000 – Two robots frozen in time. One is made of metal and appears fresh off the factory line and one seems to be an ancient prototype for it is made of wood. Both robots have a hand outstretched towards the other with a finger pointing right at the opposing robot. The metal one holds an axe. The wooden one holds a wrench. Are they here to fight? Did they some how create each other? And where did they come from? Who built them? So many questions that can be answered with a bit of creative sleuthing.
URL: http://www.tylerfuquacreations.com/1000&1
Contact: [email protected]Odyssey by Clayton Blake Art from: Currumbin Queensland, Australia
ODYSSEY – A 27ft stainless steel RETRO ROCKET. An inhabitable and interactive artwork complete with sound scape and CO2 cannons that mimic the steam explosion of a real spaceship launch. A celebration of our innate desire for EXPLORATION, DISCOVERY, TRAVEL & ADVENTURE.
Contact: [email protected]Lamp Removal Black and WhiteThe Man and Dust Black and WhiteLovely Burner – If you know Samazon please pass this to her, I lost her contact info.Touch the Sky by Martin Taylor and Chromaforms
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2023
Touch the Sky is a sculpture of a mythical winged creature with the head of a human preparing to take flight. The sculpture is fabricated from a myriad laser-cut sheet metal plates welded together. The face is rendered in sharp detail with eyes closed in dreamlike rapture. The hair flows back in the wind. The skin is made of reflective stainless steel heat treated to a rich gold color. The surface of the sculpture is outlined by geometric tattoo-like perforations that accentuate the shape of the body and emit light at night. Wings made of golden stainless and patina’ed steel stretch upwards from the back in a dramatic pose. Touch the Sky serves as a visual metaphor for taking leaps of faith to achieve our dreams and fly.
URL: https://www.chromaforms.net/
Contact: [email protected]Lovely BurnerConversation with a Squad by Alexia DeFluff and Les Flans Cocos
from: Les Roches l’Evêque, France
year: 2023
Conversation with a squad consists of a small squad of squids eager to engage in conversation with humans, using light as their visual language. In front of them is a communication device; a human to squid translator. Thanks to this intriguing machine, it becomes possible to dialogue with the squids in bioluminescent signals. We will then witness a small shoal of humans who discuss through light signals to a shoal of squid. But do our little humans even realize that they themselves use light to communicate with their peers and try to attract breeding partners, with their costumes covered in LEDs and luminous accessories?
Contact: [email protected]Lovely BurnerYuluka by Camilo Quimbayo / Santiago Caro
from: Bogotá, Colombia
year: 2023
¨Yuluka¨ means balance for Precolumbian indigenous communities descendants of the Tayronas; their cosmovision represents the concept of duality: The sun and the moon, light, and darkness, life and death.
All around the universe talks about duplicity and the natural opposites, which function as a way to maintain a universal and cosmic balance.
This concept is represented in a double head cayman forging a unique piece of goldsmith jewelry work on a large scale. Bringing to the deep playa a part of this magic animal ancient representation.
URL: http://www.yulukainstallation.com
Contact: [email protected]Lovely Burner – Nice to meet you!Robot HeartLovely BurnersSingingLovely BurnersOdyssey by Clayton Blake Art
from: Currumbin Queensland, Australia
year: 2023
ODYSSEY – A 27ft stainless steel RETRO ROCKET. An inhabitable and interactive artwork complete with sound scape and CO2 cannons that mimic the steam explosion of a real spaceship launch. A celebration of our innate desire for EXPLORATION, DISCOVERY, TRAVEL & ADVENTURE.
Contact: [email protected]Lovely BurnersBlack Rock Estates Billboard by Doyle Bussey Sophia Olson and Brian Sullivan
from: Concord, NC
year: 2023
A billboard in the middle of the playa showing a future housing development with all the comforts of home. Watered lawns, trees, modern homes with all the conveniences of living beyond the capabilities nature can provide. The back side of the billboard shows the aftermath of this hubris and what happens when humanity ignores the realities of desert living.Lovely BurnerMechanical Bull by Barry Crawford
from: Silver Springs, NV
year: 2023
Mechanical Bull is a 25% larger than life found art sculpture of a bull digging in to charge.
Contact: [email protected]The Bass – A burner leans against gigantic speakers.Dusty Sunrise at The TempleLovely BurnersNazar by Sukant Panigrahy and Sandeep Manyam with the Discovery Collective
from: Mumbai, India
year: 2023
Nazar is sight, it is perception, it is attention. It is the exchange of energy, good or bad that could happen in all of a second when you glance at someone perhaps or stare deeply into their eyes. It requires no words, yet can communicate a spectrum of emotions such as glee, fear, anger or even embody a deeper connection of trust and care. It is primal, it is visceral, it cannot be faked. We present “Nazar” in the form of a giant eyeball, rooted to the playa to communicate with her. It sweeps the landscape, beckoning one and all to interact with it and find a window in to your own soul.
Contact: [email protected]Disco Ball CostumeOver Ruled and Robot Heart
Over Ruled (NO DANCING) by Cody Smith & Looking Up Arts
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
A large red sign commands “NO DANCING” in big, bright letters, visible from afar. The provocation dares participants to defy with a boogie, shuffle, or strut, and perhaps even gather together into a sweaty, rhythmic rebellion.
Ground mounted spotlights cast enlarged silhouettes of dancers up onto the letters, broadcasting the disobedience across the playa. Crowds thus magnify their energy, sending out ripples of mischievous joy, and luring in reinforcements.
Approaching reveals smaller text on each letter, a true story of someone’s collision with a rule and the consequences: banishment, termination, expulsion, or incarceration. If the tincture of joy and grief give way to a desire for restorative justice, then Over Ruled’s goal is fulfilled.
URL: https://lookingup.art/over-ruled
Contact: [email protected]Conversation with a Squad by: Alexia DeFluff and Les Flans Cocos (Build Week)
from: Les Roches l’Evêque, France
year: 2023
Conversation with a squad consists of a small squad of squids eager to engage in conversation with humans, using light as their visual language. In front of them is a communication device; a human to squid translator. Thanks to this intriguing machine, it becomes possible to dialogue with the squids in bioluminescent signals. We will then witness a small shoal of humans who discuss through light signals to a shoal of squid. But do our little humans even realize that they themselves use light to communicate with their peers and try to attract breeding partners, with their costumes covered in LEDs and luminous accessories?
Contact: [email protected]The Hedgehog Temple by Yaroslav Korets, Kurenivka
from: Kyiv, Ukraine
year: 2023
The Hedgehog Temple is a powerful, visually striking tribute to the diverse Ukrainian creative community members who bravely defended their country during the war, including DJs, musicians, artists, journalists, and film directors. It encourages visitors to contemplate the sacrifices made by these individuals and the significance of community, support, and dedication.
This installation, composed of a cluster of anti-tank hedgehogs, forms an abstract figure that evokes both an animal hedgehog and a looming thundercloud, which often carries a foreboding threat. For Ukrainians, these anti-tank hedgehogs symbolize protection and unity. During the early days of the war, ordinary Ukrainians created thousands of hedgehogs from three sections of iron I-beams welded together to safeguard their communities.
Inside the Temple, visitors can uncover stories of war victims who dreamt of attending Burning Man and pay tribute to the thousands of courageous and talented individuals the Ukrainian creative community lost due to the war. Through this installation, the artists seek to express gratitude for those who lost their lives defending their homeland and those who continue to stand guard. The Hedgehog Temple represents hope and resilience, reminding us that the human spirit can triumph even in the darkest times.
URL: https://kurenivka.ua/temple
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]1000 Hands by: Nicholas DeBruyne & Maria Gotay with Wevolve Labs & Art Island
from: Austin, TX
year: 2023
This 50′ tall collective tapestry illustrating a world on fire stands as one of the largest & most vivid works at Burning Man, transforming shape by desert winds and participant interaction.
By day, the work depicts a fiery landscape, sparking reflection of our climate reality. At night, a serene scene illuminates in light, inspiring waking dreams of a hope-filled future.
Participants are able to swing from the base of the tapestry and experience the sensation of “the world on their shoulders,” witnessing the ripple effect of their actions displayed on a monumental scale.
As the name “1000 Hands” suggests, over 500 participants co-created this artwork, forming a community for whom the process was equally as important as the final product.
URL: https://1000handsart.com/
Contact: [email protected]1000 Hands by: Nicholas DeBruyne & Maria Gotay with Wevolve Labs & Art Island
from: Austin, TX
year: 2023
This 50′ tall collective tapestry illustrating a world on fire stands as one of the largest & most vivid works at Burning Man, transforming shape by desert winds and participant interaction.
By day, the work depicts a fiery landscape, sparking reflection of our climate reality. At night, a serene scene illuminates in light, inspiring waking dreams of a hope-filled future.
Participants are able to swing from the base of the tapestry and experience the sensation of “the world on their shoulders,” witnessing the ripple effect of their actions displayed on a monumental scale.
As the name “1000 Hands” suggests, over 500 participants co-created this artwork, forming a community for whom the process was equally as important as the final product.
URL: https://1000handsart.com/
Contact: [email protected]1000 Hands by: Nicholas DeBruyne & Maria Gotay with Wevolve Labs & Art Island
from: Austin, TX
year: 2023
This 50′ tall collective tapestry illustrating a world on fire stands as one of the largest & most vivid works at Burning Man, transforming shape by desert winds and participant interaction.
By day, the work depicts a fiery landscape, sparking reflection of our climate reality. At night, a serene scene illuminates in light, inspiring waking dreams of a hope-filled future.
Participants are able to swing from the base of the tapestry and experience the sensation of “the world on their shoulders,” witnessing the ripple effect of their actions displayed on a monumental scale.
As the name “1000 Hands” suggests, over 500 participants co-created this artwork, forming a community for whom the process was equally as important as the final product.
URL: https://1000handsart.com/
Contact: [email protected]The Hedgehog Temple by Yaroslav Korets, Kurenivka
from: Kyiv, Ukraine
year: 2023
The Hedgehog Temple is a powerful, visually striking tribute to the diverse Ukrainian creative community members who bravely defended their country during the war, including DJs, musicians, artists, journalists, and film directors. It encourages visitors to contemplate the sacrifices made by these individuals and the significance of community, support, and dedication.
This installation, composed of a cluster of anti-tank hedgehogs, forms an abstract figure that evokes both an animal hedgehog and a looming thundercloud, which often carries a foreboding threat. For Ukrainians, these anti-tank hedgehogs symbolize protection and unity. During the early days of the war, ordinary Ukrainians created thousands of hedgehogs from three sections of iron I-beams welded together to safeguard their communities.
Inside the Temple, visitors can uncover stories of war victims who dreamt of attending Burning Man and pay tribute to the thousands of courageous and talented individuals the Ukrainian creative community lost due to the war. Through this installation, the artists seek to express gratitude for those who lost their lives defending their homeland and those who continue to stand guard. The Hedgehog Temple represents hope and resilience, reminding us that the human spirit can triumph even in the darkest times.
URL: https://kurenivka.ua/temple
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Chapel of Babel by Michael Garlington
from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Elder Mother by Charles A. Gadeken
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Elder Mother is inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, the Elder-Tree-Mother. The boy in the story meets the Elder-Tree-Mother, who sits atop an Elder-Tree that grew out of the teapot next to his bed (in his dream). She speaks with him, and they go on many adventures and explorations over time. She gathers memories and shared experiences. She illuminates and night and provides shade during the day. Come and listen to her story.
URL: https://www.charlesgadeken.com/
Contact: [email protected]Elder Mother by Charles A. Gadeken
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Elder Mother is inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, the Elder-Tree-Mother. The boy in the story meets the Elder-Tree-Mother, who sits atop an Elder-Tree that grew out of the teapot next to his bed (in his dream). She speaks with him, and they go on many adventures and explorations over time. She gathers memories and shared experiences. She illuminates and night and provides shade during the day. Come and listen to her story.
URL: https://www.charlesgadeken.com/
Contact: [email protected]Touch the Sky by Martin Taylor and Chromaforms
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2023
Touch the Sky is a sculpture of a mythical winged creature with the head of a human preparing to take flight. The sculpture is fabricated from a myriad laser-cut sheet metal plates welded together. The face is rendered in sharp detail with eyes closed in dreamlike rapture. The hair flows back in the wind. The skin is made of reflective stainless steel heat treated to a rich gold color. The surface of the sculpture is outlined by geometric tattoo-like perforations that accentuate the shape of the body and emit light at night. Wings made of golden stainless and patina’ed steel stretch upwards from the back in a dramatic pose. Touch the Sky serves as a visual metaphor for taking leaps of faith to achieve our dreams and fly.
URL: https://www.chromaforms.net/
Contact: [email protected]Frog CampInside Frog CampInside Frog CampInside Frog Camp1000 Hands by Nicholas DeBruyne & Maria Gotay with Wevolve Labs & Art Island
from: Austin, TX
year: 2023
This 50′ tall collective tapestry illustrating a world on fire stands as one of the largest & most vivid works at Burning Man, transforming shape by desert winds and participant interaction.
By day, the work depicts a fiery landscape, sparking reflection of our climate reality. At night, a serene scene illuminates in light, inspiring waking dreams of a hope-filled future.
Participants are able to swing from the base of the tapestry and experience the sensation of “the world on their shoulders,” witnessing the ripple effect of their actions displayed on a monumental scale.
As the name “1000 Hands” suggests, over 500 participants co-created this artwork, forming a community for whom the process was equally as important as the final product.
URL: https://1000handsart.com/
Contact: [email protected]Zhina by Morteza Ansari and Konoon Studio
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Zhina was created to honor the women of Iran and the freedom movement they are leading. Zhina (Mahsa) Amini was killed by the morality police for not properly wearing her hijab. Her death sparked one of the most powerful uprisings in history led by women.
Zhina represents the freedom expressed in the hair flowing in the wind that has been a symbol of the movement from the beginning. Panels of red fabric covered with paintings, messages, and poetry created by a number of international artists, create passages for the audiences to explore. The audio/visual content designed to tell a more personal story of the movement. At the heart of the installation there will be an intimate space that will be a place to connect, reflect, share, and heal.
URL: https://zhinaart.com/
Contact: [email protected]Chapel of Babel by Michael Garlington
from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Inner Playa DustTemple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]The Ursas by Jen Lewin
from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2023
Named after the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, The Ursas features two towering polar bears. In 2022, Ursa Minor, a 13-foot tall sculpture debuted on playa. Inspired by Polaris, the work’s glowing and multi-paneled infinity-mirrored body reminds us to “Look Up.”
In 2023 Ursa Minor will return, but this time with her big sister. Standing over three stories tall, Ursa Major’s hollow body is filled with glowing infinity mirrors, each reflecting mosaic drawings of extinct animals from the past 12 months.
The pair, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, stand in solidarity.
Ursa Minor in hope, looking up.
Ursa Major, as a cathedral and tomb, to species lost.
URL: https://www.jenlewinstudio.com/portfolio/ursa-minor/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Over Ruled!Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Playa PanoramaButtery Smooth PlayaThe Hedgehog Temple by Yaroslav Korets, Kurenivka
from: Kyiv, Ukraine
year: 2023
The Hedgehog Temple is a powerful, visually striking tribute to the diverse Ukrainian creative community members who bravely defended their country during the war, including DJs, musicians, artists, journalists, and film directors. It encourages visitors to contemplate the sacrifices made by these individuals and the significance of community, support, and dedication.
This installation, composed of a cluster of anti-tank hedgehogs, forms an abstract figure that evokes both an animal hedgehog and a looming thundercloud, which often carries a foreboding threat. For Ukrainians, these anti-tank hedgehogs symbolize protection and unity. During the early days of the war, ordinary Ukrainians created thousands of hedgehogs from three sections of iron I-beams welded together to safeguard their communities.
Inside the Temple, visitors can uncover stories of war victims who dreamt of attending Burning Man and pay tribute to the thousands of courageous and talented individuals the Ukrainian creative community lost due to the war. Through this installation, the artists seek to express gratitude for those who lost their lives defending their homeland and those who continue to stand guard. The Hedgehog Temple represents hope and resilience, reminding us that the human spirit can triumph even in the darkest times.
URL: https://kurenivka.ua/temple
Contact: [email protected]Tesseract by Alice, Malice in Wonderland Studios
from: Brea, CA
year: 2023
A Tesseract is the cube what the cube is to the square. This mirrored representation of a fourth dimensional cube “tesseract” or “hyper cube” has a myriad of inner workings creating the illusion of a quaternary-dimensional effect. Developed from a dream, this sculpture is made of multiple types of mirror, glass, LED and your perspective.
URL: https://www.nickyalice.com/tesseract-art-installation
Contact: [email protected]Numinous II by Chad Rice
from: Fernley, NV
year: 2023
Numinous II is a dimensional, forced-perspective piece that constantly changes based on where participants are located around or within the structure. Using geometry to channel the power of the spiritual and supernatural, Numinous gives participants a view into the infinite possibilities of shifting reality.
URL: https://www.chadrice.com/
Contact: [email protected]The Man at Night in the Dust – This was a fascinating moment. As the dust kicked up many people shining extremly bright lights right into my face headed back to the city. A different group were just heading out, none of whom shined extremely bright lights at my face.The Man at Night in the DustTouch the Sky by Martin Taylor and Chromaforms
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2023
Touch the Sky is a sculpture of a mythical winged creature with the head of a human preparing to take flight. The sculpture is fabricated from a myriad laser-cut sheet metal plates welded together. The face is rendered in sharp detail with eyes closed in dreamlike rapture. The hair flows back in the wind. The skin is made of reflective stainless steel heat treated to a rich gold color. The surface of the sculpture is outlined by geometric tattoo-like perforations that accentuate the shape of the body and emit light at night. Wings made of golden stainless and patina’ed steel stretch upwards from the back in a dramatic pose. Touch the Sky serves as a visual metaphor for taking leaps of faith to achieve our dreams and fly.
URL: https://www.chromaforms.net/
Contact: [email protected]Name UnknownEl Pulpo MagnificoThe Temple and Mutant VehiclesThe Temple and Mutant VehiclesWings of Glory – The Return by Adrian Landon
from: Reno, NV
year: 2023
“Wings of Glory”, the Center-Camp keyhole sensation from Burning Man 2019, is a giant interactive metal mechanical Pegasus sculpture that gallops and flies in slow motion. She is elevated in the air on a pedestal, on fire at night, and is returning to BM23!
URL: https://adrianlandon.com/wings-of-glory
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]The Ursas by Jen Lewin
from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2023
Named after the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, The Ursas features two towering polar bears. In 2022, Ursa Minor, a 13-foot tall sculpture debuted on playa. Inspired by Polaris, the work’s glowing and multi-paneled infinity-mirrored body reminds us to “Look Up.”
In 2023 Ursa Minor will return, but this time with her big sister. Standing over three stories tall, Ursa Major’s hollow body is filled with glowing infinity mirrors, each reflecting mosaic drawings of extinct animals from the past 12 months.
The pair, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, stand in solidarity.
Ursa Minor in hope, looking up.
Ursa Major, as a cathedral and tomb, to species lost.
URL: https://www.jenlewinstudio.com/portfolio/ursa-minor/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Vanishing Point by Poetic KineticsLovely BurnersLovely BurnersTemple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Sunset ManWings of Glory – The Return by Adrian Landon
from: Reno, NV
year: 2023
“Wings of Glory”, the Center-Camp keyhole sensation from Burning Man 2019, is a giant interactive metal mechanical Pegasus sculpture that gallops and flies in slow motion. She is elevated in the air on a pedestal, on fire at night, and is returning to BM23!
URL: https://adrianlandon.com/wings-of-glory
Contact: [email protected]Queen Cobra by Andrea Greenlees, Andy Tibbetts, and Josh Haywood
from: London, United Kingdom & Reno, NV
year: 2023
Queen Cobra is a large art installation made of gleaming powder-coated tubular steel and hand-beaten copper. It takes the form of a huge rearing cobra with a coiled body, a beautiful copper-scaled head topped with a magnificent crown, and a spreading hood. Her body is a hooped structure that invites climbing and play, appealing to the child in us all.
Queen Cobra references the ancient shared mythologies of many diverse cultures. Specifically she represents the awakening of Kundalini, a form of divine feminine energy, which is visualized as a serpent uncoiling from the base of the spine and ascending through different levels of mystical experience until it reaches the top of the head, leading to a profound transformation of consciousness.
URL: https://www.andreagreenlees.com/
Contact: [email protected]Cactus of Life. A Mirror of truth. Awaken your true self by David Lombrozo, Tania Ordoñez, Pablo Fernandez and Humberto Wong
from: México City, México
year: 2023
Cactus of Life is a sculptural piece that offers a glimpse inside of oneself. The Mexican traditional Tree of Life and the iconic cactus come together as one. Here all are welcome to see themselves as they are, no prejudice. By doing so, all can share a better version of their self with the world.
The first symbol comes from the Mexican artisan tradition of the “Tree of Life.” Made of clay, this tree is adorned with many figures related to different themes such as the sun and the moon.
The second symbol is a cactus, the desert plant that survives harsh conditions and welcomes all beings who come to find life. Cacti also contain psychedelic properties that help the recipient to see inside themselves.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/cactus.of.life/
Contact: [email protected]Mutant Vehicle and TempleZhina by Morteza Ansari and Konoon Studio
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Zhina was created to honor the women of Iran and the freedom movement they are leading. Zhina (Mahsa) Amini was killed by the morality police for not properly wearing her hijab. Her death sparked one of the most powerful uprisings in history led by women.
Zhina represents the freedom expressed in the hair flowing in the wind that has been a symbol of the movement from the beginning. Panels of red fabric covered with paintings, messages, and poetry created by a number of international artists, create passages for the audiences to explore. The audio/visual content designed to tell a more personal story of the movement. At the heart of the installation there will be an intimate space that will be a place to connect, reflect, share, and heal.
URL: https://zhinaart.com/
Contact: [email protected]Our Perpetual Lady of Lost Souls and Secrets by Candi Carrell
from: Tucson, AZ
year: 2023
This art piece is a 9 foot metal base with a Jackalope half body and head. Our Perpetual Lady of Lost Souls and Secrets would like the citizens of Black Rock to tell her your inner secrets so the wind can take them away giving the individual release. The rabbit as a spirit totem represents the individual to stop, look and listen to their inner voice to help them into enlightenment. Also signifies the journey into our unknown consciousness.
Contact: [email protected]Zhina by Morteza Ansari and Konoon Studio
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Zhina was created to honor the women of Iran and the freedom movement they are leading. Zhina (Mahsa) Amini was killed by the morality police for not properly wearing her hijab. Her death sparked one of the most powerful uprisings in history led by women.
Zhina represents the freedom expressed in the hair flowing in the wind that has been a symbol of the movement from the beginning. Panels of red fabric covered with paintings, messages, and poetry created by a number of international artists, create passages for the audiences to explore. The audio/visual content designed to tell a more personal story of the movement. At the heart of the installation there will be an intimate space that will be a place to connect, reflect, share, and heal.
URL: https://zhinaart.com/
Contact: [email protected]Love Inspired by: Sharon Rae Sam W., Nick N. and Love Inspired Art Collective
from: Mountain Home to Boise, ID
year: 2023
Love Inspired consists of 7 representations of the man standing in a circle, arms up in celebration. Prayer flags raise from their connected hands to a central pole between them. Each man is a color of the rainbow including a man representing the light that shines though the rain storm creating the rainbow colors. Each flag contains our artist’s rendering of beloved animal family members that show us the true meaning of unconditional love, bringing the brilliant colors of the rainbow more in focus in our lives. Entering inside of the art piece, memory books are available to write about an animal story that has impacted one’s life for the better.
The men are 8 feet tall with the center pole adorned with a flag reaching the height of 19 feet.Incredible Bike1000 & 1 by Tyler Fuqua Creations
from: Eagle Creek, OR
year: 2023
Mechan 1 & Mechan 1000 – Two robots frozen in time. One is made of metal and appears fresh off the factory line and one seems to be an ancient prototype for it is made of wood. Both robots have a hand outstretched towards the other with a finger pointing right at the opposing robot. The metal one holds an axe. The wooden one holds a wrench. Are they here to fight? Did they some how create each other? And where did they come from? Who built them? So many questions that can be answered with a bit of creative sleuthing.
URL: http://www.tylerfuquacreations.com/1000&1
Contact: [email protected]1000 & 1 by Tyler Fuqua Creations
from: Eagle Creek, OR
year: 2023
Mechan 1 & Mechan 1000 – Two robots frozen in time. One is made of metal and appears fresh off the factory line and one seems to be an ancient prototype for it is made of wood. Both robots have a hand outstretched towards the other with a finger pointing right at the opposing robot. The metal one holds an axe. The wooden one holds a wrench. Are they here to fight? Did they some how create each other? And where did they come from? Who built them? So many questions that can be answered with a bit of creative sleuthing.
URL: http://www.tylerfuquacreations.com/1000&1
Contact: [email protected]1000 & 1 by Tyler Fuqua Creations
from: Eagle Creek, OR
year: 2023
Mechan 1 & Mechan 1000 – Two robots frozen in time. One is made of metal and appears fresh off the factory line and one seems to be an ancient prototype for it is made of wood. Both robots have a hand outstretched towards the other with a finger pointing right at the opposing robot. The metal one holds an axe. The wooden one holds a wrench. Are they here to fight? Did they some how create each other? And where did they come from? Who built them? So many questions that can be answered with a bit of creative sleuthing.
URL: http://www.tylerfuquacreations.com/1000&1
Contact: [email protected]Touch the Sky by Martin Taylor and Chromaforms
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2023
Touch the Sky is a sculpture of a mythical winged creature with the head of a human preparing to take flight. The sculpture is fabricated from a myriad laser-cut sheet metal plates welded together. The face is rendered in sharp detail with eyes closed in dreamlike rapture. The hair flows back in the wind. The skin is made of reflective stainless steel heat treated to a rich gold color. The surface of the sculpture is outlined by geometric tattoo-like perforations that accentuate the shape of the body and emit light at night. Wings made of golden stainless and patina’ed steel stretch upwards from the back in a dramatic pose. Touch the Sky serves as a visual metaphor for taking leaps of faith to achieve our dreams and fly.
URL: https://www.chromaforms.net/
Contact: [email protected]Jíbaro Soy… by: Mark Rivera aka Kidnetick
from: Bayamón, Puerto Rico
year: 2023
A large scale sculpture of a shameless Jíbaro reveling where and what its made of, inspired by a song of protest written by composer Raphy Leavitt expresses anti-colonialism and freedom to be respected for whom he is and where his from.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/kidnetick/
Contact: [email protected]Jíbaro Soy… by: Mark Rivera aka Kidnetick
from: Bayamón, Puerto Rico
year: 2023
A large scale sculpture of a shameless Jíbaro reveling where and what its made of, inspired by a song of protest written by composer Raphy Leavitt expresses anti-colonialism and freedom to be respected for whom he is and where his from.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/kidnetick/
Contact: [email protected]Jíbaro Soy… by: Mark Rivera aka Kidnetick
from: Bayamón, Puerto Rico
year: 2023
A large scale sculpture of a shameless Jíbaro reveling where and what its made of, inspired by a song of protest written by composer Raphy Leavitt expresses anti-colonialism and freedom to be respected for whom he is and where his from.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/kidnetick/
Contact: [email protected]Jíbaro Soy… by: Mark Rivera aka Kidnetick
from: Bayamón, Puerto Rico
year: 2023
A large scale sculpture of a shameless Jíbaro reveling where and what its made of, inspired by a song of protest written by composer Raphy Leavitt expresses anti-colonialism and freedom to be respected for whom he is and where his from.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/kidnetick/
Contact: [email protected]Jíbaro Soy… by: Mark Rivera aka Kidnetick
from: Bayamón, Puerto Rico
year: 2023
A large scale sculpture of a shameless Jíbaro reveling where and what its made of, inspired by a song of protest written by composer Raphy Leavitt expresses anti-colonialism and freedom to be respected for whom he is and where his from.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/kidnetick/
Contact: [email protected]Jíbaro Soy… by: Mark Rivera aka Kidnetick
from: Bayamón, Puerto Rico
year: 2023
A large scale sculpture of a shameless Jíbaro reveling where and what its made of, inspired by a song of protest written by composer Raphy Leavitt expresses anti-colonialism and freedom to be respected for whom he is and where his from.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/kidnetick/
Contact: [email protected]Lovely Burner – We had a nice discussion about confidence.The Man at DuskThe Ursas by Jen Lewin
from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2023
Named after the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, The Ursas features two towering polar bears. In 2022, Ursa Minor, a 13-foot tall sculpture debuted on playa. Inspired by Polaris, the work’s glowing and multi-paneled infinity-mirrored body reminds us to “Look Up.”
In 2023 Ursa Minor will return, but this time with her big sister. Standing over three stories tall, Ursa Major’s hollow body is filled with glowing infinity mirrors, each reflecting mosaic drawings of extinct animals from the past 12 months.
The pair, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, stand in solidarity.
Ursa Minor in hope, looking up.
Ursa Major, as a cathedral and tomb, to species lost.
URL: https://www.jenlewinstudio.com/portfolio/ursa-minor/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Burden of The Beast by Walker Babington
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2023
“Burden of The Beast,” is a fantastical folk art sculpture depicting a bison with a house at its torso. It symbolizes the task of relocating one’s intrinsic understanding of ‘home.’
Both the bison & the house are made with materials from New Orleans structures which have been destroyed by climate disasters, as though the pieces of a fallen home had the sentience and will to collect what could be salvaged, stand up, and head toward higher ground.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sabatomstudios/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Burden of The Beast by Walker Babington
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2023
“Burden of The Beast,” is a fantastical folk art sculpture depicting a bison with a house at its torso. It symbolizes the task of relocating one’s intrinsic understanding of ‘home.’
Both the bison & the house are made with materials from New Orleans structures which have been destroyed by climate disasters, as though the pieces of a fallen home had the sentience and will to collect what could be salvaged, stand up, and head toward higher ground.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sabatomstudios/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Let’s Go To SpaceDusgt Devil and Cactus of LifeLet’s Go To SpaceDusty Cloud Near 3 and RazorbackDust Devil and The ManDust Devilin 2014 Matthew Schultz and Crew created Embrace. After Android Jones created Burning Embrace which is features on this vehicle.I like this idea for hiding the portaThe Temple and a Photo Bombed ManTemple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]My Yearly FAFO What Different Layouts Look Like – Are we too stagnant?The Hedgehog Temple by Yaroslav Korets, Kurenivka
from: Kyiv, Ukraine
year: 2023
The Hedgehog Temple is a powerful, visually striking tribute to the diverse Ukrainian creative community members who bravely defended their country during the war, including DJs, musicians, artists, journalists, and film directors. It encourages visitors to contemplate the sacrifices made by these individuals and the significance of community, support, and dedication.
This installation, composed of a cluster of anti-tank hedgehogs, forms an abstract figure that evokes both an animal hedgehog and a looming thundercloud, which often carries a foreboding threat. For Ukrainians, these anti-tank hedgehogs symbolize protection and unity. During the early days of the war, ordinary Ukrainians created thousands of hedgehogs from three sections of iron I-beams welded together to safeguard their communities.
Inside the Temple, visitors can uncover stories of war victims who dreamt of attending Burning Man and pay tribute to the thousands of courageous and talented individuals the Ukrainian creative community lost due to the war. Through this installation, the artists seek to express gratitude for those who lost their lives defending their homeland and those who continue to stand guard. The Hedgehog Temple represents hope and resilience, reminding us that the human spirit can triumph even in the darkest times.
URL: https://kurenivka.ua/temple
Contact: [email protected]Retro Rocket and Mutant Vehicle Black and WhiteField of Flowers by JOBI
from: Treasure Island, CA
year: 2023
In Field of Flowers, you’ll notice a beautiful garden of approximately 150 electronic singing flowers. Walking through the garden, you’ll realize that the flowers are reacting to your movements with waves of color and sound, creating a truly immersive experience. By changing direction and walking at different speeds, you can guide the waves and create beautiful interference effects with other people. It’s as if you’re a pollinator gliding through these Nevada native flowers. With its emphasis on movement and cooperation, Field of Flowers provides a unique and interactive experience that is sure to leave a lasting impression on all who encounter it.
URL: https://www.campjobi.com/index.html
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]The Man – Look at that glorious smooth playa.Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Deaf Wagon – New innovatinve ICE engine with the pistons on the outside haha. BTW off topic but I love it when things have their name plastered all over them. It makes writing all these captions so much easier (and your thing becomes searchable whatever it is).I was like oh cool a paleontological dig site how cool?! As I brused off the dirt only dicks were there and I burst out laughing. Amazing. Thank you for that! Triceracocks! LMFAO!
Provocative Paleontology by BRC Jurassic History Society
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2023
Immerse yourself in the prehistoric era by joining the Black Rock City Jurassic History Society at our active fossil dig site. Unearth the remnants of the recently discovered Triceracocks and Pegasaurus, two of the majestic dinosaurs that once roamed the Playa 65 million years ago.
URL: https://www.campregis.comI was like oh cool a paleontological dig site how cool?! As I brused off the dirt only dicks were there and I burst out laughing. Amazing. Thank you for that! Triceracocks! LMFAO!
Provocative Paleontology by BRC Jurassic History Society
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2023
Immerse yourself in the prehistoric era by joining the Black Rock City Jurassic History Society at our active fossil dig site. Unearth the remnants of the recently discovered Triceracocks and Pegasaurus, two of the majestic dinosaurs that once roamed the Playa 65 million years ago.
URL: https://www.campregis.comBitCube by Colin O’Donnell
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
BitCube is an interactive installation that transforms 224 standard IBC water totes into single pixels in a massive low-resolution cube display towering 30 feet over the desert. The installation creates a minimalist, abstract visual narrative that defies the ubiquity of hi-res displays. BitCube embraces the limitations of a low-res medium and encourages viewers to find beauty in simplicity. The installation’s audio-reactive capabilities reflect the collective heartbeat of the Burning Man community. Light patterns range from abstract shapes to minimalist representations of life and energy, resonating with Burning Man’s spirit of creativity, self-expression, and community in a stripped-down interplay of light, space, and perception.
Contact: [email protected]Chapel of Babel by Michael Garlington from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Wings of Glory – The Return by Adrian Landon
from: Reno, NV
year: 2023
“Wings of Glory”, the Center-Camp keyhole sensation from Burning Man 2019, is a giant interactive metal mechanical Pegasus sculpture that gallops and flies in slow motion. She is elevated in the air on a pedestal, on fire at night, and is returning to BM23!
URL: https://adrianlandon.com/wings-of-glory
Contact: [email protected]The Man at DawnThe Man at DawnThe Man at DawnThe Man at DawnTemple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Burden of The Beast by Walker Babington
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2023
“Burden of The Beast,” is a fantastical folk art sculpture depicting a bison with a house at its torso. It symbolizes the task of relocating one’s intrinsic understanding of ‘home.’
Both the bison & the house are made with materials from New Orleans structures which have been destroyed by climate disasters, as though the pieces of a fallen home had the sentience and will to collect what could be salvaged, stand up, and head toward higher ground.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sabatomstudios/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]The Man at NightBlack Rock Station by Black Rock Transportation Company
from: Felton, CA
year: 2023
Black Rock Station is a classic rural train station built in the mid-1930s to serve Black Rock City and the communities scattered throughout the vast Black Rock Desert. The station has come unstuck in time, unstable and oscillating through various moments over the last 150 years and beyond, with ghost trains heard but not seen, an ever-shifting interior life, and a subtle narrative that cuts against conventional historical themes.
URL: https://blackrocktrainstation.com/
Contact: [email protected]MaxaThe Prairie of Possibilities by The Moonlight Collective
from: Seattle, WA
year: 2023
The Prairie of Possibilities highlights the transformational power of storytelling. Pass beneath the glow of whispering portals to be transported to a realm between realms . Traipse through an infinite field of shimmering grasses swaying gently in the night. Find serenity and connection within this harmonious soundscape. Under midnight’s velvet curtain, explore the question of what it means to be human by offering a personal story to “the Entity” and in turn receive the stories of others. Emerge from this journey transformed. In lumine lunari es renascentis. In moonlight you are reborn.
URL: https://www.moonlightcollective.studio
Contact: [email protected]The Train Station and The Porch – When I was chatting the Porch guys I said so do you can classify that as an art car? The guy says We think of it as more of a lifestyle. Amazing.Big Spinning Wheels by PDA
from: Roxbury, NY
year: 2023
Simple, Yet complex! Big Spinning Wheels are not for the faint, but rather the open of heart. From close or a far, they evoke a secret and sacred tantalizing beauty. Placed at the bounds of BRC, and the edge of reality….patience is a virtue….
URL: https://pdabk.com/
Contact: [email protected]Over Ruled (NO DANCING) by Cody Smith & Looking Up Arts
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
A large red sign commands “NO DANCING” in big, bright letters, visible from afar. The provocation dares participants to defy with a boogie, shuffle, or strut, and perhaps even gather together into a sweaty, rhythmic rebellion.
Ground mounted spotlights cast enlarged silhouettes of dancers up onto the letters, broadcasting the disobedience across the playa. Crowds thus magnify their energy, sending out ripples of mischievous joy, and luring in reinforcements.
Approaching reveals smaller text on each letter, a true story of someone’s collision with a rule and the consequences: banishment, termination, expulsion, or incarceration. If the tincture of joy and grief give way to a desire for restorative justice, then Over Ruled’s goal is fulfilled.
URL: https://lookingup.art/over-ruled
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]BitCube by Colin O’Donnell
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
BitCube is an interactive installation that transforms 224 standard IBC water totes into single pixels in a massive low-resolution cube display towering 30 feet over the desert. The installation creates a minimalist, abstract visual narrative that defies the ubiquity of hi-res displays. BitCube embraces the limitations of a low-res medium and encourages viewers to find beauty in simplicity. The installation’s audio-reactive capabilities reflect the collective heartbeat of the Burning Man community. Light patterns range from abstract shapes to minimalist representations of life and energy, resonating with Burning Man’s spirit of creativity, self-expression, and community in a stripped-down interplay of light, space, and perception.
Contact: [email protected]Black Rock Station by Black Rock Transportation Company
from: Felton, CA
year: 2023
Black Rock Station is a classic rural train station built in the mid-1930s to serve Black Rock City and the communities scattered throughout the vast Black Rock Desert. The station has come unstuck in time, unstable and oscillating through various moments over the last 150 years and beyond, with ghost trains heard but not seen, an ever-shifting interior life, and a subtle narrative that cuts against conventional historical themes.
URL: https://blackrocktrainstation.com/
Contact: [email protected]Hot Mess CampHot Mess CampExquisite Animalus
by: KJ Boheme and Stefan Spins
from: New York, NY
year: 2023
What is animal?
Exquisite Animalus moves beyond the physical and allows for fantastical reinterpretation and celebration of earth’s gorgeous biodiversity. Viewing the piece opens a discussion of human’s role within the animal kingdom. Interacting with the Exquisite Animalus affords the participant a God-like ability to design their own creature. Sharing the experience with other contributors allows for the unlocking of the word puzzle which reveals the collective’s secret message of the piece. All roles: viewer, interactor, participant or contributor will be provided an absurd opportunity to create and deepen one’s connection with the building blocks of our Animalus kingdom. Nature is wild and beautiful!
URL: https://kjbowen.art
Contact: [email protected]Mariposa
by: Christopher Schardt
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2023
A 26’ x 14’ butterfly 15’ above the ground. Its wings are hinged so that they flap, propelled by the wind or by participants operating a lever. 38,000 LEDs cover its surface. As speakers play classical and classic pop music, images choreographed to each section are displayed on the LEDs.
The structure of the butterfly is bent aluminum tubing. Aluminum strips are across it, onto which are glued LED strips. Each wing has a front-to-back axle around which the wing pivots. These axles are angled so that the front edges of the wings are higher than the rear edges. This allows a gust of wind to push the outer edges of the wings upward. They come down when the gust abates. Thus the wings flap even when there are no participants move them manually.
Approximately 38,000 full-color, computer-controlled LEDs cover the bottom sides of each wing, surround the body, and run along each antenna and leg. These are controlled by several computers.
The four speakers surrounding the butterfly are disguised as giant flower pots with LED flowers growing out of them. The flower are touch-sensitive, changing their animations in response to a visitor’s attentions.
URL: http://ledlabs.co/mariposa
Contact: [email protected]1000 & 1
by: Tyler Fuqua Creations
from: Eagle Creek, OR
year: 2023
Mechan 1 & Mechan 1000 – Two robots frozen in time. One is made of metal and appears fresh off the factory line and one seems to be an ancient prototype for it is made of wood. Both robots have a hand outstretched towards the other with a finger pointing right at the opposing robot. The metal one holds an axe. The wooden one holds a wrench. Are they here to fight? Did they some how create each other? And where did they come from? Who built them? So many questions that can be answered with a bit of creative sleuthing.
URL: http://www.tylerfuquacreations.com/1000&1
Contact: [email protected]1000 & 1
by: Tyler Fuqua Creations
from: Eagle Creek, OR
year: 2023
Mechan 1 & Mechan 1000 – Two robots frozen in time. One is made of metal and appears fresh off the factory line and one seems to be an ancient prototype for it is made of wood. Both robots have a hand outstretched towards the other with a finger pointing right at the opposing robot. The metal one holds an axe. The wooden one holds a wrench. Are they here to fight? Did they some how create each other? And where did they come from? Who built them? So many questions that can be answered with a bit of creative sleuthing.
URL: http://www.tylerfuquacreations.com/1000&1
Contact: [email protected]1000 & 1
by: Tyler Fuqua Creations
from: Eagle Creek, OR
year: 2023
Mechan 1 & Mechan 1000 – Two robots frozen in time. One is made of metal and appears fresh off the factory line and one seems to be an ancient prototype for it is made of wood. Both robots have a hand outstretched towards the other with a finger pointing right at the opposing robot. The metal one holds an axe. The wooden one holds a wrench. Are they here to fight? Did they some how create each other? And where did they come from? Who built them? So many questions that can be answered with a bit of creative sleuthing.
URL: http://www.tylerfuquacreations.com/1000&1
Contact: [email protected]1000 & 1
by: Tyler Fuqua Creations
from: Eagle Creek, OR
year: 2023
Mechan 1 & Mechan 1000 – Two robots frozen in time. One is made of metal and appears fresh off the factory line and one seems to be an ancient prototype for it is made of wood. Both robots have a hand outstretched towards the other with a finger pointing right at the opposing robot. The metal one holds an axe. The wooden one holds a wrench. Are they here to fight? Did they some how create each other? And where did they come from? Who built them? So many questions that can be answered with a bit of creative sleuthing.
URL: http://www.tylerfuquacreations.com/1000&1
Contact: [email protected]Camp Threat – I have no idea what happened here.Monaco Mutant Vehicle at NightThe Man and RIdgelineThe Man AglowThe Man AglowElder Mother by Charles A. Gadeken
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Elder Mother is inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, the Elder-Tree-Mother. The boy in the story meets the Elder-Tree-Mother, who sits atop an Elder-Tree that grew out of the teapot next to his bed (in his dream). She speaks with him, and they go on many adventures and explorations over time. She gathers memories and shared experiences. She illuminates and night and provides shade during the day. Come and listen to her story.
URL: https://www.charlesgadeken.com/
Contact: [email protected]Elder Mother by Charles A. Gadeken
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Elder Mother is inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, the Elder-Tree-Mother. The boy in the story meets the Elder-Tree-Mother, who sits atop an Elder-Tree that grew out of the teapot next to his bed (in his dream). She speaks with him, and they go on many adventures and explorations over time. She gathers memories and shared experiences. She illuminates and night and provides shade during the day. Come and listen to her story.
URL: https://www.charlesgadeken.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]1000 Hands by Nicholas DeBruyne & Maria Gotay with Wevolve Labs & Art Island
from: Austin, TX
year: 2023
This 50′ tall collective tapestry illustrating a world on fire stands as one of the largest & most vivid works at Burning Man, transforming shape by desert winds and participant interaction.
By day, the work depicts a fiery landscape, sparking reflection of our climate reality. At night, a serene scene illuminates in light, inspiring waking dreams of a hope-filled future.
Participants are able to swing from the base of the tapestry and experience the sensation of “the world on their shoulders,” witnessing the ripple effect of their actions displayed on a monumental scale.
As the name “1000 Hands” suggests, over 500 participants co-created this artwork, forming a community for whom the process was equally as important as the final product.
URL: https://1000handsart.com/
Contact: [email protected]Mutant Vehicle Chillin – These guys just cruising and chilling.Black Rock Station by Black Rock Transportation Company
from: Felton, CA
year: 2023
Black Rock Station is a classic rural train station built in the mid-1930s to serve Black Rock City and the communities scattered throughout the vast Black Rock Desert. The station has come unstuck in time, unstable and oscillating through various moments over the last 150 years and beyond, with ghost trains heard but not seen, an ever-shifting interior life, and a subtle narrative that cuts against conventional historical themes.
URL: https://blackrocktrainstation.com/
Contact: [email protected]Black Rock Station by Black Rock Transportation Company
from: Felton, CA
year: 2023
Black Rock Station is a classic rural train station built in the mid-1930s to serve Black Rock City and the communities scattered throughout the vast Black Rock Desert. The station has come unstuck in time, unstable and oscillating through various moments over the last 150 years and beyond, with ghost trains heard but not seen, an ever-shifting interior life, and a subtle narrative that cuts against conventional historical themes.
URL: https://blackrocktrainstation.com/
Contact: [email protected]Black Rock Station by Black Rock Transportation Company
from: Felton, CA
year: 2023
Black Rock Station is a classic rural train station built in the mid-1930s to serve Black Rock City and the communities scattered throughout the vast Black Rock Desert. The station has come unstuck in time, unstable and oscillating through various moments over the last 150 years and beyond, with ghost trains heard but not seen, an ever-shifting interior life, and a subtle narrative that cuts against conventional historical themes.
URL: https://blackrocktrainstation.com/
Contact: [email protected]Black Rock Station by Black Rock Transportation Company
from: Felton, CA
year: 2023
Black Rock Station is a classic rural train station built in the mid-1930s to serve Black Rock City and the communities scattered throughout the vast Black Rock Desert. The station has come unstuck in time, unstable and oscillating through various moments over the last 150 years and beyond, with ghost trains heard but not seen, an ever-shifting interior life, and a subtle narrative that cuts against conventional historical themes.
URL: https://blackrocktrainstation.com/
Contact: [email protected]Perception III by Dave Clay
from: Seattle, WA
year: 2023
Perception is an interactive light sculpture made up of transparent windows spread out in a spiral-circular space. The windows shift colors, inviting people to look through windows at each other. As they engage, the colors respond, interacting with the windows around in light reverberations. As more people interact with windows, these reverberations overlap to produce new colors and patterns that can reach out to the entire space.
This piece reminds us to acknowledge perception of reality is based. on interactions with the environment and with each other. It encourages us to play with how we see each other, how things look different based on who we are and where we are at in our lives.
URL: https://www.daveclay.com/burning-man-2023
Contact: [email protected]BitCube by Colin O’Donnell
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
BitCube is an interactive installation that transforms 224 standard IBC water totes into single pixels in a massive low-resolution cube display towering 30 feet over the desert. The installation creates a minimalist, abstract visual narrative that defies the ubiquity of hi-res displays. BitCube embraces the limitations of a low-res medium and encourages viewers to find beauty in simplicity. The installation’s audio-reactive capabilities reflect the collective heartbeat of the Burning Man community. Light patterns range from abstract shapes to minimalist representations of life and energy, resonating with Burning Man’s spirit of creativity, self-expression, and community in a stripped-down interplay of light, space, and perception.
Contact: [email protected]BitCube by Colin O’Donnell
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
BitCube is an interactive installation that transforms 224 standard IBC water totes into single pixels in a massive low-resolution cube display towering 30 feet over the desert. The installation creates a minimalist, abstract visual narrative that defies the ubiquity of hi-res displays. BitCube embraces the limitations of a low-res medium and encourages viewers to find beauty in simplicity. The installation’s audio-reactive capabilities reflect the collective heartbeat of the Burning Man community. Light patterns range from abstract shapes to minimalist representations of life and energy, resonating with Burning Man’s spirit of creativity, self-expression, and community in a stripped-down interplay of light, space, and perception.
Contact: [email protected]BitCube by Colin O’Donnell
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
BitCube is an interactive installation that transforms 224 standard IBC water totes into single pixels in a massive low-resolution cube display towering 30 feet over the desert. The installation creates a minimalist, abstract visual narrative that defies the ubiquity of hi-res displays. BitCube embraces the limitations of a low-res medium and encourages viewers to find beauty in simplicity. The installation’s audio-reactive capabilities reflect the collective heartbeat of the Burning Man community. Light patterns range from abstract shapes to minimalist representations of life and energy, resonating with Burning Man’s spirit of creativity, self-expression, and community in a stripped-down interplay of light, space, and perception.
Contact: [email protected]Chapel of Babel by Michael Garlington
from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Chalice to Eleusis by Hunter Leggitt Jonathan Berry & House of Fābl (Build Week)
from: Denver, CO
year: 2023
The ways of Eleusis were lost to history; now in this moment, the past is being revealed. Encased underground and locked away in hidden libraries for nearly two thousand years, the mysteries of our cultural roots are now finally being exposed. The tides are turning and with them, the unlocking of the universal balance that exists between chaos and the cosmos. The Kykeon spills out its truth to the playa.
URL: https://www.houseoffabl.com/
Contact: [email protected]Vanishing Points by Poetic KineticsName UnknownVanishing Points by Poetic Kinetics and The TempleElder Mother by Charles A. Gadeken (Build Week)
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Elder Mother is inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, the Elder-Tree-Mother. The boy in the story meets the Elder-Tree-Mother, who sits atop an Elder-Tree that grew out of the teapot next to his bed (in his dream). She speaks with him, and they go on many adventures and explorations over time. She gathers memories and shared experiences. She illuminates and night and provides shade during the day. Come and listen to her story.
URL: https://www.charlesgadeken.com/
Contact: [email protected]Elder Mother by Charles A. Gadeken (Build Week)
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Elder Mother is inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, the Elder-Tree-Mother. The boy in the story meets the Elder-Tree-Mother, who sits atop an Elder-Tree that grew out of the teapot next to his bed (in his dream). She speaks with him, and they go on many adventures and explorations over time. She gathers memories and shared experiences. She illuminates and night and provides shade during the day. Come and listen to her story.
URL: https://www.charlesgadeken.com/
Contact: [email protected]Children at PlayTear Drop by Lukas Mark and Jettinae VonJaeger
from: Wuerzburg, Germany
year: 2023
The Tear Drop is an interactive kinetic art sculpture. The one Teardrop in the middle, drops and crates waves, in the form of glistening metal rings. One single tear in a vast ocean of choices, potential, and repercussions.
People can turn the crank in both directions, to discover how their motions will impact the wave going in and out of eternity. Regardless of the direction and path they choose, they will always create cause and effect.
By night the LED lights will reflect on the rings, illuminating the surroundings and illuminating the impactfull waves of their decisions.
URL: https://www.markdesign.info/
Contact: [email protected]Lovely Burners – You did very well climbing on those structures!Burners at PlayBurners at PlayBurners at PlayBurners at PlayHowzit My Bru – On SafariMagic Jelly by Jin Ma X RedShadow
from: Shanghai, China
year: 2023
This art piece looks like a huge Jelly fish, in the night it glows like magic in deep ocean. By playing with Magic Jelly, we want to protect ocean animals. In Oriental philosophy, the structure contains four sides: 东(east), 南(south),西(West),北(North), which are where the stairs and slides sit. Adding four swings in southeast, southwest, northeast, northwest are total eight directions. In Chinese “four sides eight directions”(四面八方)means “all over the world”. The project wishes acceptance and integration all over the world.Alight
by: Trey Watkins, Mara Greenberg, Alan Becker & the Frogma Art Collective
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2023
Alight is a flock of birds, a bridge. Birds of all shapes, cultures, and histories. A bridge that is traversable, reactive, and punctuated by fluttering in flames. The structure will respond to participants crossing. The form invites flight. Its transience will culminate with its immolation at the end of the week.
URL: http://onemandown.com/The Giving Tree Art CarPOLYHEDRA Sky Portal Series by: Gregg Fleishman (Build Week)
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2023
Scattered POLYHEDRA form Sky Portals embodying the shapes of sacred geometry. Focusing on the cubic varieties, networks of these POLYHEDRA fill space. Transforming the surfaces and edges into panels and parts gives us a structural assembly which fills space. Assembled from varieties of identical parts the multi-portal pieces are representative of a Caterpillar and a Bear.
URL: http://www.greggfleishman.com
Contact: [email protected]#Vagr
by: Misha Libertee
from: Yerevan, Armenia
year: 2023
The massive inflatable pink tiger stands tall amidst the dusty playa of Burning Man. Its size and bright hue make it impossible to miss, drawing people in for a closer look. The tiger’s majestic form is both impressive and whimsical, evoking a sense of childlike wonder.
Bright pink color of the installation serves as a reminder of the struggles that these animals face due to habitat loss, poaching, and climate change.
#Vagr functions as an eco-educational tool, offering burners a chance to learn more about the problems facing tigers and what they can do to help.
By doing so, they become more aware of the importance of conservation efforts and the role that each individual can play in protecting these magnificent animals.
Vagr – Tiger (Armenian)
URL: https://libertee.art/vagr
Contact: [email protected]Mutant Vehicle and RocketRed Hot Beverly and Air Pusher CollectiveBurden of The Beast by Walker Babington
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2023
“Burden of The Beast,” is a fantastical folk art sculpture depicting a bison with a house at its torso. It symbolizes the task of relocating one’s intrinsic understanding of ‘home.’
Both the bison & the house are made with materials from New Orleans structures which have been destroyed by climate disasters, as though the pieces of a fallen home had the sentience and will to collect what could be salvaged, stand up, and head toward higher ground.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sabatomstudios/
Contact: [email protected]Breaking Open by Butterfly Heart Tribe
from: Topanga, CA
year: 2023
A broken heart stands as a chrysalis to new life within, a symbol of the potential for healing and transformation. The heart is ignited and as it burns away, it reveals the butterfly, now free to fly.
URL: https://www.breakingopen.org/
Contact: [email protected]Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Mutaant Vehile Name UnknownBurners Cruising – Cool mutant vehicle and neat sand tires.Over Ruled (NO DANCIN) by Cody Smith & Looking Up Arts
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
A large red sign commands “NO DANCING” in big, bright letters, visible from afar. The provocation dares participants to defy with a boogie, shuffle, or strut, and perhaps even gather together into a sweaty, rhythmic rebellion.
Ground mounted spotlights cast enlarged silhouettes of dancers up onto the letters, broadcasting the disobedience across the playa. Crowds thus magnify their energy, sending out ripples of mischievous joy, and luring in reinforcements.
Approaching reveals smaller text on each letter, a true story of someone’s collision with a rule and the consequences: banishment, termination, expulsion, or incarceration. If the tincture of joy and grief give way to a desire for restorative justice, then Over Ruled’s goal is fulfilled.
URL: https://lookingup.art/over-ruled
Contact: [email protected]Name UnknownFuck Yeah SignArt at Bubbles & Bass (I think) Artist Name UnknownThe Creation of AdamiaCamp SuburbiaBuild WeekTeamwork on Pam’s Parlor – A group of burners work on Parm’s Parlor mutant vehicle.Build WeekOld School TruckExpanse
by: Laurence Renzo Verbeck
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Expanse takes Vitruvian Man as a starting point, and subverts it. The figure is female, no longer bound by geometry; the arms, morphing to wings, extend beyond. She is forward of, and greater than the circle, growing out of the ring into something other. New and limitless experience. Geometry is the basis of art and language, it is the starting point of who we are as a species. But it is not the end of who we are. Expanse is a reminder that our solace and burgeoning reside in both the honoring and challenging of geometry. That we live best when we become the ground where rigidity and expansion meet and resolve.
Contact: [email protected]Expanse
by: Laurence Renzo Verbeck
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Expanse takes Vitruvian Man as a starting point, and subverts it. The figure is female, no longer bound by geometry; the arms, morphing to wings, extend beyond. She is forward of, and greater than the circle, growing out of the ring into something other. New and limitless experience. Geometry is the basis of art and language, it is the starting point of who we are as a species. But it is not the end of who we are. Expanse is a reminder that our solace and burgeoning reside in both the honoring and challenging of geometry. That we live best when we become the ground where rigidity and expansion meet and resolve.
Contact: [email protected]Name UnknownMonkey Huts as Shade For TentsNo Shoes In Pool (Build Week)YOUniversal Persian Teahouse (Build Week)RentalsCreation Nation BRC made this large display of my friend Jamen’s incredible Gigapixel image from the 2022 burn. The 2022 image was displayed at the 2023 burn. To view Jamen’s Gigapixel of the 2022 burn go here: http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/230654
To view Jamen’s Gigapixel of the 2023 burn go here:
https://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/233427The Salvaged Spoon
by: Jason Kuster, Taylor Simpson, Nate Herrmann & The Sunrise Art Collective
from: Seattle, WA
year: 2023
Burners can gather in this chandelier-lit gazebo around a dining table to rest, chat, eat, and play games. The space may elicit memories of stopping at a late night diner after a night out with friends, visiting a grandparent’s home as a child, or perusing a thrift store. Surrounded by a menagerie of secondhand and salvaged materials and objects, it feels somewhere other, perhaps even a different time period. Senses are heightened—on a visual hunt, full of curiosity and gratitude, savoring each bite, feeling each laugh so deeply, time seems to follow no logic.
Contact: [email protected]The Salvaged Spoon
by: Jason Kuster, Taylor Simpson, Nate Herrmann & The Sunrise Art Collective
from: Seattle, WA
year: 2023
Burners can gather in this chandelier-lit gazebo around a dining table to rest, chat, eat, and play games. The space may elicit memories of stopping at a late night diner after a night out with friends, visiting a grandparent’s home as a child, or perusing a thrift store. Surrounded by a menagerie of secondhand and salvaged materials and objects, it feels somewhere other, perhaps even a different time period. Senses are heightened—on a visual hunt, full of curiosity and gratitude, savoring each bite, feeling each laugh so deeply, time seems to follow no logic.
Contact: [email protected]The Salvaged Spoon
by: Jason Kuster, Taylor Simpson, Nate Herrmann & The Sunrise Art Collective
from: Seattle, WA
year: 2023
Burners can gather in this chandelier-lit gazebo around a dining table to rest, chat, eat, and play games. The space may elicit memories of stopping at a late night diner after a night out with friends, visiting a grandparent’s home as a child, or perusing a thrift store. Surrounded by a menagerie of secondhand and salvaged materials and objects, it feels somewhere other, perhaps even a different time period. Senses are heightened—on a visual hunt, full of curiosity and gratitude, savoring each bite, feeling each laugh so deeply, time seems to follow no logic.
Contact: [email protected]The Salvaged Spoon
by: Jason Kuster, Taylor Simpson, Nate Herrmann & The Sunrise Art Collective
from: Seattle, WA
year: 2023
Burners can gather in this chandelier-lit gazebo around a dining table to rest, chat, eat, and play games. The space may elicit memories of stopping at a late night diner after a night out with friends, visiting a grandparent’s home as a child, or perusing a thrift store. Surrounded by a menagerie of secondhand and salvaged materials and objects, it feels somewhere other, perhaps even a different time period. Senses are heightened—on a visual hunt, full of curiosity and gratitude, savoring each bite, feeling each laugh so deeply, time seems to follow no logic.
Contact: [email protected]BitCube by: Colin O’Donnell
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
BitCube is an interactive installation that transforms 224 standard IBC water totes into single pixels in a massive low-resolution cube display towering 30 feet over the desert. The installation creates a minimalist, abstract visual narrative that defies the ubiquity of hi-res displays. BitCube embraces the limitations of a low-res medium and encourages viewers to find beauty in simplicity. The installation’s audio-reactive capabilities reflect the collective heartbeat of the Burning Man community. Light patterns range from abstract shapes to minimalist representations of life and energy, resonating with Burning Man’s spirit of creativity, self-expression, and community in a stripped-down interplay of light, space, and perception.
Contact: [email protected]BitCube by Colin O’Donnell
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
BitCube is an interactive installation that transforms 224 standard IBC water totes into single pixels in a massive low-resolution cube display towering 30 feet over the desert. The installation creates a minimalist, abstract visual narrative that defies the ubiquity of hi-res displays. BitCube embraces the limitations of a low-res medium and encourages viewers to find beauty in simplicity. The installation’s audio-reactive capabilities reflect the collective heartbeat of the Burning Man community. Light patterns range from abstract shapes to minimalist representations of life and energy, resonating with Burning Man’s spirit of creativity, self-expression, and community in a stripped-down interplay of light, space, and perception.
Contact: [email protected]BitCube by: Colin O’Donnell
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
BitCube is an interactive installation that transforms 224 standard IBC water totes into single pixels in a massive low-resolution cube display towering 30 feet over the desert. The installation creates a minimalist, abstract visual narrative that defies the ubiquity of hi-res displays. BitCube embraces the limitations of a low-res medium and encourages viewers to find beauty in simplicity. The installation’s audio-reactive capabilities reflect the collective heartbeat of the Burning Man community. Light patterns range from abstract shapes to minimalist representations of life and energy, resonating with Burning Man’s spirit of creativity, self-expression, and community in a stripped-down interplay of light, space, and perception.
Contact: [email protected]This is my friend Danee. He is a badass photographr from Tahiti. Check out his great photographs over here: https://www.daneehazama.comFriends for Dinner
by: Jim Cortez
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
The dinner table is set for no one and everyone, lit by a chandelier with a mind of its own.
Contact: [email protected]Friends for Dinner
by: Jim Cortez
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
The dinner table is set for no one and everyone, lit by a chandelier with a mind of its own.
Contact: [email protected]Deep Playa Sunrise1000 Hands by: Nicholas DeBruyne & Maria Gotay with Wevolve Labs & Art Island
from: Austin, TX
year: 2023
This 50′ tall collective tapestry illustrating a world on fire stands as one of the largest & most vivid works at Burning Man, transforming shape by desert winds and participant interaction.
By day, the work depicts a fiery landscape, sparking reflection of our climate reality. At night, a serene scene illuminates in light, inspiring waking dreams of a hope-filled future.
Participants are able to swing from the base of the tapestry and experience the sensation of “the world on their shoulders,” witnessing the ripple effect of their actions displayed on a monumental scale.
As the name “1000 Hands” suggests, over 500 participants co-created this artwork, forming a community for whom the process was equally as important as the final product.
URL: https://1000handsart.com/
Contact: [email protected]Deep Playa SunriseMasterpiece #999 by Benjamin Rowe
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2023
Masterpiece #999 is the latest in a LONG line of project exploring the potential for simple materials to communicate geometrically artistic messages.
This spire stands about 2x as tall as a person and can be seen pointing triumphantly away from gravity. A spectre in the dust.
Contact: [email protected]Big Spinning Wheels by PDA
from: Roxbury, NY
year: 2023
Simple, Yet complex! Big Spinning Wheels are not for the faint, but rather the open of heart. From close or a far, they evoke a secret and sacred tantalizing beauty. Placed at the bounds of BRC, and the edge of reality….patience is a virtue….
URL: https://pdabk.com/
Contact: [email protected]The Journey Aquatic
by: Mark Dill
from: Fleming Island, FL
year: 2023
The Journey Aquatic is a 5 times life size loggerhead turtle. It is meant to express the joy and wonder of seeing turtles in the ocean. As well as the fragility of the turtles’ lives and the dangers to their existence.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/thejourneyaquatic/
Contact: [email protected]1000 & 1
by: Tyler Fuqua Creations
from: Eagle Creek, OR
year: 2023
Mechan 1 & Mechan 1000 – Two robots frozen in time. One is made of metal and appears fresh off the factory line and one seems to be an ancient prototype for it is made of wood. Both robots have a hand outstretched towards the other with a finger pointing right at the opposing robot. The metal one holds an axe. The wooden one holds a wrench. Are they here to fight? Did they some how create each other? And where did they come from? Who built them? So many questions that can be answered with a bit of creative sleuthing.
URL: http://www.tylerfuquacreations.com/1000&1
Contact: [email protected]Vanishing Points by Poetic KineticsThe Bug Mutant VehicleMona by Miao He
from: Shehong, China
year: 2023
“Mona” is an 8-meter tall metal rabbit sculpture, resembling a plush toy with a pink exterior, standing gracefully in the desert landscape. Representing the theme of ANIMALIA, the installation serves as a symbol of love, warmth, and childhood memories. As participants gather around “Mona,” they engage to have deep connection between each other. At night, illuminated by lights, the pink rabbit becomes a recognizable landmark. The artwork aims to transport Burners into a whimsical world, reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland, where the rabbit guides them on a journey filled with hope, inclusiveness, and freedom.
URL: http://infinite.landMutant Vehicles in LineVanishing Points by Poetic Kinetics
I was unable to find much information about this project but it was certainly an obsession of mine during the burn. From what I understand these are 90 foot carbon fiber tubes. Incredible piece!
https://www.poetickinetics.comVanishing Points by Poetic Kinetics
I was unable to find much information about this project but it was certainly an obsession of mine during the burn. From what I understand these are 90 foot carbon fiber tubes. Incredible piece!
https://www.poetickinetics.comVanishing Points by Poetic Kinetics
I was unable to find much information about this project but it was certainly an obsession of mine during the burn. From what I understand these are 90 foot carbon fiber tubes. Incredible piece!
https://www.poetickinetics.comVanishing Points by Poetic Kinetics
I was unable to find much information about this project but it was certainly an obsession of mine during the burn. From what I understand these are 90 foot carbon fiber tubes. Incredible piece!
https://www.poetickinetics.comVanishing Points by Poetic Kinetics
I was unable to find much information about this project but it was certainly an obsession of mine during the burn. From what I understand these are 90 foot carbon fiber tubes. Incredible piece!
https://www.poetickinetics.comJíbaro Soy… by: Mark Rivera aka Kidnetick
from: Bayamón, Puerto Rico
year: 2023
A large scale sculpture of a shameless Jíbaro reveling where and what its made of, inspired by a song of protest written by composer Raphy Leavitt expresses anti-colonialism and freedom to be respected for whom he is and where his from.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/kidnetick/
Contact: [email protected]Chapel of Babel by Michael Garlington from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Red Hot Beverly Mutant VehicleThe Bug and Red Hot Beverly Mutant VehiclesThe Bug Mutant VehicleThe Bug Mutant VehicleThe Bug Mutant VehicleMaxa DustOf a Temporary Nature 2.0 by: P. Michael Quinn
from: Gossburg, TN
year: 2023
Fairy shrimp are strange, almost alien looking crustaceans. Although they only inhabit temporary aquatic habitats, they have been here for millions of years floating on their backs and undulating through life. “Of a Temporary Nature” presents an arial flotilla of large fairy shrimp wind sock sculptures that hopefully entice participants to wonder and draw nearer to their intriguing yet simple forms.
Temporary water gives rise to the fairy shrimp and Black Rock City gives rise to the Burner. We are all of a temporary nature. We should do more to live like fairy shrimp – eat, mate, dance, and accept and enjoy each other’s company as much as possible while our habitats remain as we may not realize the temporary nature of our very own existence.
URL: https://ofatemporarynature.blogspot.com/Of a Temporary Nature 2.0 by: P. Michael Quinn
from: Gossburg, TN
year: 2023
Fairy shrimp are strange, almost alien looking crustaceans. Although they only inhabit temporary aquatic habitats, they have been here for millions of years floating on their backs and undulating through life. “Of a Temporary Nature” presents an arial flotilla of large fairy shrimp wind sock sculptures that hopefully entice participants to wonder and draw nearer to their intriguing yet simple forms.
Temporary water gives rise to the fairy shrimp and Black Rock City gives rise to the Burner. We are all of a temporary nature. We should do more to live like fairy shrimp – eat, mate, dance, and accept and enjoy each other’s company as much as possible while our habitats remain as we may not realize the temporary nature of our very own existence.
URL: https://ofatemporarynature.blogspot.com/Small Mutant Vehicles Are GreatCamouflage by Anna Silivonchik
from: Minsk, Belarus
year: 2023
The installation is called “Camouflage” and consists of oils in which natural and anthropomorphic features are intertwined. This work visualizes a longing for an ideal world, where man does not try to oppose nature, but feels its heartbeat and breathes in unison. Turning empathy to a maximum, one hears the subtle vibrations of the earth, reads the emotions of trees and grasses, understands the language of animals and birds, knows what fish are silent about.
Disguise, mimicry, and camouflage here are not just a way of hiding, of blending into the landscape, but a way of trying on the image of the other. An opportunity to become different, to think more broadly and to feel more deeply.
Contact: [email protected]Vanishing Points by Poetic Kinetics
I was unable to find much information about this project but it was certainly an obsession of mine during the burn. From what I understand these are 90 foot carbon fiber tubes. Incredible piece!
https://www.poetickinetics.comVanishing Points by Poetic Kinetics
I was unable to find much information about this project but it was certainly an obsession of mine during the burn. From what I understand these are 90 foot carbon fiber tubes. Incredible piece!
https://www.poetickinetics.comVanishing Points by Poetic Kinetics
I was unable to find much information about this project but it was certainly an obsession of mine during the burn. From what I understand these are 90 foot carbon fiber tubes. Incredible piece!
https://www.poetickinetics.comBarrel Oh’ Monkeys “The Great Escape” by: Iron Monkeys (Build Week)
from: Seattle, WA
year: 2023
Barrel Oh Monkeys ‘The Great Escape’ is a 15′ tall climbable steel & leather barrel with shade, lighting, & tiered seating. Windows provide a portal to enjoy the world outside. It has benches inside and outside, and occasionally a wood burning fire pit may appear.
URL: https://www.ironmonkeyarts.org/bom.html
Contact: [email protected]Elder Mother by Charles A. Gadeken (Build Week)
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Elder Mother is inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, the Elder-Tree-Mother. The boy in the story meets the Elder-Tree-Mother, who sits atop an Elder-Tree that grew out of the teapot next to his bed (in his dream). She speaks with him, and they go on many adventures and explorations over time. She gathers memories and shared experiences. She illuminates and night and provides shade during the day. Come and listen to her story.
URL: https://www.charlesgadeken.com/
Contact: [email protected]Elder Mother by Charles A. Gadeken (Build Week)
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Elder Mother is inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, the Elder-Tree-Mother. The boy in the story meets the Elder-Tree-Mother, who sits atop an Elder-Tree that grew out of the teapot next to his bed (in his dream). She speaks with him, and they go on many adventures and explorations over time. She gathers memories and shared experiences. She illuminates and night and provides shade during the day. Come and listen to her story.
URL: https://www.charlesgadeken.com/
Contact: [email protected]Elder Mother by Charles A. Gadeken (Build Week)
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Elder Mother is inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, the Elder-Tree-Mother. The boy in the story meets the Elder-Tree-Mother, who sits atop an Elder-Tree that grew out of the teapot next to his bed (in his dream). She speaks with him, and they go on many adventures and explorations over time. She gathers memories and shared experiences. She illuminates and night and provides shade during the day. Come and listen to her story.
URL: https://www.charlesgadeken.com/
Contact: [email protected]Elder Mother by Charles A. Gadeken (Build Week)
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Elder Mother is inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, the Elder-Tree-Mother. The boy in the story meets the Elder-Tree-Mother, who sits atop an Elder-Tree that grew out of the teapot next to his bed (in his dream). She speaks with him, and they go on many adventures and explorations over time. She gathers memories and shared experiences. She illuminates and night and provides shade during the day. Come and listen to her story.
URL: https://www.charlesgadeken.com/
Contact: [email protected]The Solar Library Phase 2
by: Jared Ficklin & The Other Singularity
from: Austin, TX
year: 2023
The Solar Library is a rhythmic repetition of triangular yellow huts with bright sun orange doors. The steel framed huts present solar panels at an ideal angle to the sun. At night they bathe in soft yellow light reminiscent of the sunlight collected all day.
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Each is a self-contained 1600 Watt solar charging supporting other art projects. Instead of generators artists buy batteries & charge them each day at The Solar Library. This allows artists to convert to solar power without the cost, fumes & engineering of placing panels next to their art.
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A whisperia flower out front tells the story of the art projects in each unit when a handle is cranked like a music box for spoken word.
URL: http://www.solarlibrary.info
Contact: [email protected]Sangye Menla Medicine Buddha by Virginia and Guy Connor
from: Las Vegas, NM
year: 2023
Sangye Menla is an interactive 10 Feet Medicine Buddha statue.
His royal deep blue, unusual color will stand on the Golden Playa. At night, the statue will also be lighted.
Traditionally the Medicine Buddha is a powerful representation of an Healing Buddha. Its aim and mantra is to relieve pain, illness, disease and emotional suffering for all sentient being.Lincoln Bear by Mr & Mrs Ferguson
from: Alameda, CA
year: 2023
A tribute to the Lincoln Memorial and the coin with the image of Lincoln and memorial stamped on it. The Lincoln in this chair is a 10 foot tall grizzly bear that has fur made with tens of thousands of pennies.
The original sculpture depicts President Lincoln’s gaze as he contemplates decisions that will save a nation with a gaze that charges one to uphold those decisions. Lincoln Bear’s gaze also contemplates, but his decisions and those are ones that may save the natural world.
URL: https://www.mr-and-mrs-ferguson.com/lincoln-bear
Contact: [email protected]Nothing For Sale by fnnch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
“Nothing For Sale” is about Decommodification. The tube dancer is the ultimate symbol of commodification — it exists solely to advertise and promote. But it is also a joyous object, full of color and motion. “Nothing For Sale” liberates this symbol and its beauty. It subverts the original meaning of the object and highlights Decommodification by juxtaposing a commercial symbol with non-commercial language.On point by Seth Johnson
from: Carson City, NV
year: 2023
The sculpture is the interpretation of the abstracted energy in the power and commitment of the sentinel Canis.Tiny Trailer. So cute.Burners take a break from buildBRC Weekly – Please come back!Vanishing Points BuildBurning Man Is (Still) Stupid30kW PV array mounted on containers to power the Man throughout Burn Week.30kW PV array mounted on containers to power the Man throughout Burn Week.30kW PV array mounted on containers to power the Man throughout Burn Week.Solar InfrastructureTemple (Build Week)The Man (Build Week)Build WeekName UnknownChapel of Babel by Michael Garlington from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
From the irresistible imagination of Micahel Garlington comes yet another magical creation – The Chapel of Babel. The Chapel is a re-occurring dream, years in the mind, reaching its manifestation. A hexagonal wooden structure will be clad with Garlington’s signature black-and-white photographs of various sizes creating stunning visuals throughout the structure. The human element in the portraiture, animals, flowers, insects, and leaves, will convey that we all belong here and will hold room for everyone in all versions and reiterations of their expression.
URL: https://www.michaelgarlington.com
Contact: [email protected]Barrel Oh’ Monkeys “The Great Escape”
by: Iron Monkeys
from: Seattle, WA
year: 2023
Barrel Oh Monkeys ‘The Great Escape’ is a 15′ tall climbable steel & leather barrel with shade, lighting, & tiered seating. Windows provide a portal to enjoy the world outside. It has benches inside and outside, and occasionally a wood burning fire pit may appear.
URL: https://www.ironmonkeyarts.org/bom.html
Contact: [email protected]Mona by Miao He
from: Shehong, China
year: 2023
“Mona” is an 8-meter tall metal rabbit sculpture, resembling a plush toy with a pink exterior, standing gracefully in the desert landscape. Representing the theme of ANIMALIA, the installation serves as a symbol of love, warmth, and childhood memories. As participants gather around “Mona,” they engage to have deep connection between each other. At night, illuminated by lights, the pink rabbit becomes a recognizable landmark. The artwork aims to transport Burners into a whimsical world, reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland, where the rabbit guides them on a journey filled with hope, inclusiveness, and freedom.
URL: http://infinite.landMona by Miao He
from: Shehong, China
year: 2023
“Mona” is an 8-meter tall metal rabbit sculpture, resembling a plush toy with a pink exterior, standing gracefully in the desert landscape. Representing the theme of ANIMALIA, the installation serves as a symbol of love, warmth, and childhood memories. As participants gather around “Mona,” they engage to have deep connection between each other. At night, illuminated by lights, the pink rabbit becomes a recognizable landmark. The artwork aims to transport Burners into a whimsical world, reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland, where the rabbit guides them on a journey filled with hope, inclusiveness, and freedom.
URL: http://infinite.landVanishing Points by Poetic Kinetics
I was unable to find much information about this project but it was certainly an obsession of mine during the burn. From what I understand these are 90 foot carbon fiber tubes. Incredible piece!
https://www.poetickinetics.comEarly DMV LineEarly DMV LineLine of Mutant VehiclesOdyssey
by: Clayton Blake Art
from: Currumbin Queensland, Australia
year: 2023
ODYSSEY – A 27ft stainless steel RETRO ROCKET. An inhabitable and interactive artwork complete with sound scape and CO2 cannons that mimic the steam explosion of a real spaceship launch. A celebration of our innate desire for EXPLORATION, DISCOVERY, TRAVEL & ADVENTURE.
Contact: [email protected]Road Conditions Beforethe mudHello Friend Don’t Be Afraid We Are Watching YouYour Vehicle Has Some Stuff On ItOf a Temporary Nature 2.0 by: P. Michael Quinn
from: Gossburg, TN
year: 2023
Fairy shrimp are strange, almost alien looking crustaceans. Although they only inhabit temporary aquatic habitats, they have been here for millions of years floating on their backs and undulating through life. “Of a Temporary Nature” presents an arial flotilla of large fairy shrimp wind sock sculptures that hopefully entice participants to wonder and draw nearer to their intriguing yet simple forms.
Temporary water gives rise to the fairy shrimp and Black Rock City gives rise to the Burner. We are all of a temporary nature. We should do more to live like fairy shrimp – eat, mate, dance, and accept and enjoy each other’s company as much as possible while our habitats remain as we may not realize the temporary nature of our very own existence.
URL: https://ofatemporarynature.blogspot.com/Wing SurferAlebrijes by Laura Salcido
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
The artist wants to create a space that entices engagement with curiosity and delight.
Three Alebrijes will be resting in an open area of which its borders are soft white faerie lights. The Alebrijes are large and magical creatures with colorful markings and symbols throughout their bodies. While wildly different they are of the same other world. There are benches placed around for visitors to rest with the Alebrijes if they so choose.
The artist meaning behind this is for us to ponder how beautiful things are when we slow down and ponder the unique pull in the diversity of colors.
Contact: [email protected]Alebrijes by Laura Salcido
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
The artist wants to create a space that entices engagement with curiosity and delight.
Three Alebrijes will be resting in an open area of which its borders are soft white faerie lights. The Alebrijes are large and magical creatures with colorful markings and symbols throughout their bodies. While wildly different they are of the same other world. There are benches placed around for visitors to rest with the Alebrijes if they so choose.
The artist meaning behind this is for us to ponder how beautiful things are when we slow down and ponder the unique pull in the diversity of colors.
Contact: [email protected]Farmer the Rigger by Zulu Heru & the Burger Boyz
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2023
Farmer the Rigger is a giant Afro-eccentric magical entity made of weathered steel, supported by his hands that he uses to traverse the playa when it is dusty enough to do so undetected. Farmer the Rigger is a monument to the working class, skilled laborers, and the culmination of hours spent mastering one’s craft. Farmer the Rigger is a guardian, watching over this safe space we collectively create for all beings especially people of color to express them selves freely and to be celebrated for doing so.
URL: https://www.farmertherigger.com/
Contact: [email protected]Farmer the Rigger by Zulu Heru & the Burger Boyz
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2023
Farmer the Rigger is a giant Afro-eccentric magical entity made of weathered steel, supported by his hands that he uses to traverse the playa when it is dusty enough to do so undetected. Farmer the Rigger is a monument to the working class, skilled laborers, and the culmination of hours spent mastering one’s craft. Farmer the Rigger is a guardian, watching over this safe space we collectively create for all beings especially people of color to express them selves freely and to be celebrated for doing so.
URL: https://www.farmertherigger.com/
Contact: [email protected]Conversation with a Squad by: Alexia DeFluff and Les Flans Cocos (Build Week)
from: Les Roches l’Evêque, France
year: 2023
Conversation with a squad consists of a small squad of squids eager to engage in conversation with humans, using light as their visual language. In front of them is a communication device; a human to squid translator. Thanks to this intriguing machine, it becomes possible to dialogue with the squids in bioluminescent signals. We will then witness a small shoal of humans who discuss through light signals to a shoal of squid. But do our little humans even realize that they themselves use light to communicate with their peers and try to attract breeding partners, with their costumes covered in LEDs and luminous accessories?
Contact: [email protected]1000 Hands by: Nicholas DeBruyne & Maria Gotay with Wevolve Labs & Art Island
from: Austin, TX
year: 2023
This 50′ tall collective tapestry illustrating a world on fire stands as one of the largest & most vivid works at Burning Man, transforming shape by desert winds and participant interaction.
By day, the work depicts a fiery landscape, sparking reflection of our climate reality. At night, a serene scene illuminates in light, inspiring waking dreams of a hope-filled future.
Participants are able to swing from the base of the tapestry and experience the sensation of “the world on their shoulders,” witnessing the ripple effect of their actions displayed on a monumental scale.
As the name “1000 Hands” suggests, over 500 participants co-created this artwork, forming a community for whom the process was equally as important as the final product.
URL: https://1000handsart.com/
Contact: [email protected]Perennial Playground: Germination by Gloria Lamb and The GASS Co.
from: Agua Dulce, CA
year: 2023
Germination is the next chapter of Perennial Playground. Planted last year and fertilized with years of grief, anger, fire & plague, and a dusting of magical fairy shrimp, we’re excited to see what has started to sprout!
Returning are raised garden beds filled with colorful fairy light “buds” that sway in the breeze & bloom shaped chairs around the perimeter. This flower garden play area will have GROWN to include a raised central padded fuzzy yellow ovary accessible via colorful petals of climbing net ladders. Reaching the top is an adventure, & gives explorers a chance to see things from a new perspective, having overcome an obstacle & being able to see the growth from last year.
URL: https://www.perennialplayground.com
Contact: [email protected]Perennial Playground: Germination by Gloria Lamb and The GASS Co.
from: Agua Dulce, CA
year: 2023
Germination is the next chapter of Perennial Playground. Planted last year and fertilized with years of grief, anger, fire & plague, and a dusting of magical fairy shrimp, we’re excited to see what has started to sprout!
Returning are raised garden beds filled with colorful fairy light “buds” that sway in the breeze & bloom shaped chairs around the perimeter. This flower garden play area will have GROWN to include a raised central padded fuzzy yellow ovary accessible via colorful petals of climbing net ladders. Reaching the top is an adventure, & gives explorers a chance to see things from a new perspective, having overcome an obstacle & being able to see the growth from last year.
URL: https://www.perennialplayground.com
Contact: [email protected]Quiet SunriseWaiting to PartyPolymery by Taylor Dean Harrison
from: Penngrove, CA
year: 2023
Polymery is an installation of five sculptures that cast light and shadow far and wide creating a patterned field of constantly evolving color mixing on the ground. During the day, the flower-like pods invite the viewer to look upwards at their curving, mirrored surfaces to see warped reflections of the environment. At night, the flowers ‘bloom’ into a larger installation, each pod casting its petals onto the ground and inspiring exploration.
URL: https://www.taylordeanharrison.com/portfolio-item/polymery/
Contact: [email protected]1000 Hands by: Nicholas DeBruyne & Maria Gotay with Wevolve Labs & Art Island
from: Austin, TX
year: 2023
This 50′ tall collective tapestry illustrating a world on fire stands as one of the largest & most vivid works at Burning Man, transforming shape by desert winds and participant interaction.
By day, the work depicts a fiery landscape, sparking reflection of our climate reality. At night, a serene scene illuminates in light, inspiring waking dreams of a hope-filled future.
Participants are able to swing from the base of the tapestry and experience the sensation of “the world on their shoulders,” witnessing the ripple effect of their actions displayed on a monumental scale.
As the name “1000 Hands” suggests, over 500 participants co-created this artwork, forming a community for whom the process was equally as important as the final product.
URL: https://1000handsart.com/
Contact: [email protected]Rays of Light before Sunrise at The TempleThe Ursas by Jen Lewin
from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2023
Named after the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, The Ursas features two towering polar bears. In 2022, Ursa Minor, a 13-foot tall sculpture debuted on playa. Inspired by Polaris, the work’s glowing and multi-paneled infinity-mirrored body reminds us to “Look Up.”
In 2023 Ursa Minor will return, but this time with her big sister. Standing over three stories tall, Ursa Major’s hollow body is filled with glowing infinity mirrors, each reflecting mosaic drawings of extinct animals from the past 12 months.
The pair, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, stand in solidarity.
Ursa Minor in hope, looking up.
Ursa Major, as a cathedral and tomb, to species lost.
URL: https://www.jenlewinstudio.com/portfolio/ursa-minor/
Contact: [email protected]The Ursas by Jen Lewin
from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2023
Named after the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, The Ursas features two towering polar bears. In 2022, Ursa Minor, a 13-foot tall sculpture debuted on playa. Inspired by Polaris, the work’s glowing and multi-paneled infinity-mirrored body reminds us to “Look Up.”
In 2023 Ursa Minor will return, but this time with her big sister. Standing over three stories tall, Ursa Major’s hollow body is filled with glowing infinity mirrors, each reflecting mosaic drawings of extinct animals from the past 12 months.
The pair, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, stand in solidarity.
Ursa Minor in hope, looking up.
Ursa Major, as a cathedral and tomb, to species lost.
URL: https://www.jenlewinstudio.com/portfolio/ursa-minor/
Contact: [email protected]The Ursas by Jen Lewin
from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2023
Named after the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, The Ursas features two towering polar bears. In 2022, Ursa Minor, a 13-foot tall sculpture debuted on playa. Inspired by Polaris, the work’s glowing and multi-paneled infinity-mirrored body reminds us to “Look Up.”
In 2023 Ursa Minor will return, but this time with her big sister. Standing over three stories tall, Ursa Major’s hollow body is filled with glowing infinity mirrors, each reflecting mosaic drawings of extinct animals from the past 12 months.
The pair, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, stand in solidarity.
Ursa Minor in hope, looking up.
Ursa Major, as a cathedral and tomb, to species lost.
URL: https://www.jenlewinstudio.com/portfolio/ursa-minor/
Contact: [email protected]The Ursas by Jen Lewin
from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2023
Named after the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, The Ursas features two towering polar bears. In 2022, Ursa Minor, a 13-foot tall sculpture debuted on playa. Inspired by Polaris, the work’s glowing and multi-paneled infinity-mirrored body reminds us to “Look Up.”
In 2023 Ursa Minor will return, but this time with her big sister. Standing over three stories tall, Ursa Major’s hollow body is filled with glowing infinity mirrors, each reflecting mosaic drawings of extinct animals from the past 12 months.
The pair, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, stand in solidarity.
Ursa Minor in hope, looking up.
Ursa Major, as a cathedral and tomb, to species lost.
URL: https://www.jenlewinstudio.com/portfolio/ursa-minor/
Contact: [email protected]The Ursas by Jen Lewin
from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2023
Named after the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, The Ursas features two towering polar bears. In 2022, Ursa Minor, a 13-foot tall sculpture debuted on playa. Inspired by Polaris, the work’s glowing and multi-paneled infinity-mirrored body reminds us to “Look Up.”
In 2023 Ursa Minor will return, but this time with her big sister. Standing over three stories tall, Ursa Major’s hollow body is filled with glowing infinity mirrors, each reflecting mosaic drawings of extinct animals from the past 12 months.
The pair, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, stand in solidarity.
Ursa Minor in hope, looking up.
Ursa Major, as a cathedral and tomb, to species lost.
URL: https://www.jenlewinstudio.com/portfolio/ursa-minor/
Contact: [email protected]The Ursas by Jen Lewin
from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2023
Named after the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, The Ursas features two towering polar bears. In 2022, Ursa Minor, a 13-foot tall sculpture debuted on playa. Inspired by Polaris, the work’s glowing and multi-paneled infinity-mirrored body reminds us to “Look Up.”
In 2023 Ursa Minor will return, but this time with her big sister. Standing over three stories tall, Ursa Major’s hollow body is filled with glowing infinity mirrors, each reflecting mosaic drawings of extinct animals from the past 12 months.
The pair, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, stand in solidarity.
Ursa Minor in hope, looking up.
Ursa Major, as a cathedral and tomb, to species lost.
URL: https://www.jenlewinstudio.com/portfolio/ursa-minor/
Contact: [email protected]Glowing Man in the DustBAJ (Butt Activated Jellyfish) by OctoEyes
from: Seattle, WA
year: 2023
BAJ, the Butt Activated Jellyfish, is ready for action! Sit, bounce and contemplate life in the deep sea while stimulating BAJ’s lights using one of your best assets.
URL: https://octoey.es/baj/
Contact: [email protected]Tea CatUnfolding Humanity by Diane Hoffoss and ArtBuilds
from: San Diego, CA
year: 2023
Unfolding Humanity is a 12′ tall dodecahedron whose exterior faces resemble computer screens emulating The Matrix animation. An open face leads inside, which is lined with 7′ mirrors. The sculpture highlights a famous unsolved question in astronomy, and illuminates the complex relationship between humanity and technology.
Astronomers don’t know whether the universe is finite or infinite; the mirror-lined interior of the sculpture helps visitors understand life in a finite universe that nevertheless appears infinite.
Technology is a conduit for human interaction, and also a way to wall oneself off from humanity; each face of the dodecahedron separates the tender human reflected in the mirrored inside from the rest of humanity outside.
URL: https://artbuilds.org/unfolding-humanity-renaissance/Camp Porta PartyBurning Man 2023 Placement MapAlmost TIme For Some Oontz Oontz OontzElephants on MuralOn point by Seth Johnson
from: Carson City, NV
year: 2023
The sculpture is the interpretation of the abstracted energy in the power and commitment of the sentinel Canis.LEOsOn point by Seth Johnson
from: Carson City, NV
year: 2023
The sculpture is the interpretation of the abstracted energy in the power and commitment of the sentinel Canis.Nothing For Sale’s Angry Little BrotherMoment of Pause During BuildA Certain Elegance – Some camps bring this extra bit of elegance. A little extra something to spruce things up.Painted Trailer with Fuzzy DoorAirstream and Other StuffFull Wrap Trailer – I have not tried to wrap my rig but maybe I should. Does this work well?HeliosTrailer With Hammock and FanMutant Vehicle PartsCool Tent StructureTrash Fence SunsetsRhino RedemptionFlag LineRhino RedemptionNice RigDistrikt BuildDistrikt BuildMutation Repsonse VehicleMutation Repsonse VehicleEverything is Partly BuiltPractice Sustainable JackasserySolar Panels on WheelsFiretruck ConversionNice Shade! So fresh, So Clean, if you will.Sweet RideDome with ACOh The Places We Will Go!Havana NightsMilitary Vehicle and StarlinkWiresBuild PileTire SwingsBuild Week ContinuesShade Structure SetupNice ArrayExquisite Animalus by KJ Boheme and Stefan Spins (Build Week)
from: New York, NY
year: 2023
What is animal?
Exquisite Animalus moves beyond the physical and allows for fantastical reinterpretation and celebration of earth’s gorgeous biodiversity. Viewing the piece opens a discussion of human’s role within the animal kingdom. Interacting with the Exquisite Animalus affords the participant a God-like ability to design their own creature. Sharing the experience with other contributors allows for the unlocking of the word puzzle which reveals the collective’s secret message of the piece. All roles: viewer, interactor, participant or contributor will be provided an absurd opportunity to create and deepen one’s connection with the building blocks of our Animalus kingdom. Nature is wild and beautiful!
URL: https://kjbowen.art
Contact: [email protected]Interesting RigBurden of The Beast by Walker Babington (Build Week)
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2023
“Burden of The Beast,” is a fantastical folk art sculpture depicting a bison with a house at its torso. It symbolizes the task of relocating one’s intrinsic understanding of ‘home.’
Both the bison & the house are made with materials from New Orleans structures which have been destroyed by climate disasters, as though the pieces of a fallen home had the sentience and will to collect what could be salvaged, stand up, and head toward higher ground.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sabatomstudios/
Contact: [email protected]Build Week ContinuesTip of the Iceberg by Melissa Syn Barron and Temple (Build Week)Builders Taking a Break Atop ScaffoldingSunset Aerial Build WeekCamp SetupSo Much Room For Activities (Build Week)Camp SetupRhino RedemptionBig Spinning Wheels by PDA
from: Roxbury, NY
year: 2023
Simple, Yet complex! Big Spinning Wheels are not for the faint, but rather the open of heart. From close or a far, they evoke a secret and sacred tantalizing beauty. Placed at the bounds of BRC, and the edge of reality….patience is a virtue….
URL: https://pdabk.com/
Contact: [email protected]Big Spinning Wheels by PDA
from: Roxbury, NY
year: 2023
Simple, Yet complex! Big Spinning Wheels are not for the faint, but rather the open of heart. From close or a far, they evoke a secret and sacred tantalizing beauty. Placed at the bounds of BRC, and the edge of reality….patience is a virtue….
URL: https://pdabk.com/
Contact: [email protected]Big Spinning Wheels by PDA
from: Roxbury, NY
year: 2023
Simple, Yet complex! Big Spinning Wheels are not for the faint, but rather the open of heart. From close or a far, they evoke a secret and sacred tantalizing beauty. Placed at the bounds of BRC, and the edge of reality….patience is a virtue….
URL: https://pdabk.com/
Contact: [email protected]Big Spinning Wheels by PDA
from: Roxbury, NY
year: 2023
Simple, Yet complex! Big Spinning Wheels are not for the faint, but rather the open of heart. From close or a far, they evoke a secret and sacred tantalizing beauty. Placed at the bounds of BRC, and the edge of reality….patience is a virtue….
URL: https://pdabk.com/
Contact: [email protected]Big Spinning Wheels by PDA
from: Roxbury, NY
year: 2023
Simple, Yet complex! Big Spinning Wheels are not for the faint, but rather the open of heart. From close or a far, they evoke a secret and sacred tantalizing beauty. Placed at the bounds of BRC, and the edge of reality….patience is a virtue….
URL: https://pdabk.com/
Contact: [email protected]Big Spinning Wheels by PDA
from: Roxbury, NY
year: 2023
Simple, Yet complex! Big Spinning Wheels are not for the faint, but rather the open of heart. From close or a far, they evoke a secret and sacred tantalizing beauty. Placed at the bounds of BRC, and the edge of reality….patience is a virtue….
URL: https://pdabk.com/
Contact: [email protected]Big Spinning Wheels by PDA
from: Roxbury, NY
year: 2023
Simple, Yet complex! Big Spinning Wheels are not for the faint, but rather the open of heart. From close or a far, they evoke a secret and sacred tantalizing beauty. Placed at the bounds of BRC, and the edge of reality….patience is a virtue….
URL: https://pdabk.com/
Contact: [email protected]Big Spinning Wheels by PDA
from: Roxbury, NY
year: 2023
Simple, Yet complex! Big Spinning Wheels are not for the faint, but rather the open of heart. From close or a far, they evoke a secret and sacred tantalizing beauty. Placed at the bounds of BRC, and the edge of reality….patience is a virtue….
URL: https://pdabk.com/
Contact: [email protected]Playa GrasshopperRazorback and Train Mirrage at the Trash FenceThe Windy Wobbler by Paul Outram (Build Week)
from: Green Valley, CA
year: 2023
A dozen cloth triangles go flipety flopety as they dance in the wind.
Contact: [email protected]The Windy Wobbler by Paul Outram (Build Week)
from: Green Valley, CA
year: 2023
A dozen cloth triangles go flipety flopety as they dance in the wind.
Contact: [email protected]1000 Hands by Nicholas DeBruyne & Maria Gotay with Wevolve Labs & Art Island (Build Week)
from: Austin, TX
year: 2023
This 50′ tall collective tapestry illustrating a world on fire stands as one of the largest & most vivid works at Burning Man, transforming shape by desert winds and participant interaction.
By day, the work depicts a fiery landscape, sparking reflection of our climate reality. At night, a serene scene illuminates in light, inspiring waking dreams of a hope-filled future.
Participants are able to swing from the base of the tapestry and experience the sensation of “the world on their shoulders,” witnessing the ripple effect of their actions displayed on a monumental scale.
As the name “1000 Hands” suggests, over 500 participants co-created this artwork, forming a community for whom the process was equally as important as the final product.
URL: https://1000handsart.com/
Contact: [email protected]Doorway to Everything by Pedro Loughran and the Woodbutchers Collective (Build Week)
from: Sebastopol, CA
year: 2023
The piece is a door on a platform. It is a portal to pass through to everything. there will be ornate woodwork and design. The meaning is every door is an opportunity to something new.Doorway to Everything by Pedro Loughran and the Woodbutchers Collective
from: Sebastopol, CA
year: 2023
The piece is a door on a platform. It is a portal to pass through to everything. there will be ornate woodwork and design. The meaning is every door is an opportunity to something new.Temple of the Heart by Ela Madej and Reed Finlay (Build Week)
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
Temple of the Heart is a vessel for reconnecting with our hearts and a space for communal healing. Holding space for anyone processing grief, She helps channel it up to the sky. Through flowers, Eastern European lacing, and warm feminine energy, She induces the feelings of maternal love, acceptance, and protection.
URL: https://www.temple2023.com/
Contact: [email protected]Farmer the Rigger by Zulu Heru & the Burger Boyz (Build Week)
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2023
Farmer the Rigger is a giant Afro-eccentric magical entity made of weathered steel, supported by his hands that he uses to traverse the playa when it is dusty enough to do so undetected. Farmer the Rigger is a monument to the working class, skilled laborers, and the culmination of hours spent mastering one’s craft. Farmer the Rigger is a guardian, watching over this safe space we collectively create for all beings especially people of color to express them selves freely and to be celebrated for doing so.
URL: https://www.farmertherigger.com/
Contact: [email protected]Farmer the Rigger by Zulu Heru & the Burger Boyz (Build Week)
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2023
Farmer the Rigger is a giant Afro-eccentric magical entity made of weathered steel, supported by his hands that he uses to traverse the playa when it is dusty enough to do so undetected. Farmer the Rigger is a monument to the working class, skilled laborers, and the culmination of hours spent mastering one’s craft. Farmer the Rigger is a guardian, watching over this safe space we collectively create for all beings especially people of color to express them selves freely and to be celebrated for doing so.
URL: https://www.farmertherigger.com/
Contact: [email protected]BAJ (Butt Activated Jellyfish Build Week)
by: OctoEyes
from: Seattle, WA
year: 2023
BAJ, the Butt Activated Jellyfish, is ready for action! Sit, bounce and contemplate life in the deep sea while stimulating BAJ’s lights using one of your best assets.
URL: https://octoey.es/baj/
Contact: [email protected]Exquisite Animalus by KJ Boheme and Stefan Spins (Build Week)
from: New York, NY
year: 2023
What is animal?
Exquisite Animalus moves beyond the physical and allows for fantastical reinterpretation and celebration of earth’s gorgeous biodiversity. Viewing the piece opens a discussion of human’s role within the animal kingdom. Interacting with the Exquisite Animalus affords the participant a God-like ability to design their own creature. Sharing the experience with other contributors allows for the unlocking of the word puzzle which reveals the collective’s secret message of the piece. All roles: viewer, interactor, participant or contributor will be provided an absurd opportunity to create and deepen one’s connection with the building blocks of our Animalus kingdom. Nature is wild and beautiful!
URL: https://kjbowen.art
Contact: [email protected]Exquisite Animalus by KJ Boheme and Stefan Spins (Build Week)
from: New York, NY
year: 2023
What is animal?
Exquisite Animalus moves beyond the physical and allows for fantastical reinterpretation and celebration of earth’s gorgeous biodiversity. Viewing the piece opens a discussion of human’s role within the animal kingdom. Interacting with the Exquisite Animalus affords the participant a God-like ability to design their own creature. Sharing the experience with other contributors allows for the unlocking of the word puzzle which reveals the collective’s secret message of the piece. All roles: viewer, interactor, participant or contributor will be provided an absurd opportunity to create and deepen one’s connection with the building blocks of our Animalus kingdom. Nature is wild and beautiful!
URL: https://kjbowen.art
Contact: [email protected]Pano Build WeekTemple and The Man (Build Week)Inner Playa Build Week. So many cranes. Love the frenetic energy.Badass photographer Jamen Percy. Absolute legend. Check out his incredible work here: https://www.instagram.com/jamenpercy.burn/Black Rock Station by Black Rock Transportation Company (Build Week)
from: Felton, CA
year: 2023
Black Rock Station is a classic rural train station built in the mid-1930s to serve Black Rock City and the communities scattered throughout the vast Black Rock Desert. The station has come unstuck in time, unstable and oscillating through various moments over the last 150 years and beyond, with ghost trains heard but not seen, an ever-shifting interior life, and a subtle narrative that cuts against conventional historical themes.
URL: https://blackrocktrainstation.com/
Contact: [email protected]BitCube by Colin O’Donnell (Build Week)
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2023
BitCube is an interactive installation that transforms 224 standard IBC water totes into single pixels in a massive low-resolution cube display towering 30 feet over the desert. The installation creates a minimalist, abstract visual narrative that defies the ubiquity of hi-res displays. BitCube embraces the limitations of a low-res medium and encourages viewers to find beauty in simplicity. The installation’s audio-reactive capabilities reflect the collective heartbeat of the Burning Man community. Light patterns range from abstract shapes to minimalist representations of life and energy, resonating with Burning Man’s spirit of creativity, self-expression, and community in a stripped-down interplay of light, space, and perception.
Contact: [email protected]Complexahedron by L’Attitude Collective (Build Week)
from: Petaluma, CA
year: 2023
A shrine to commemorate the moment when unicellular eukaryotes began to aggregate and become one. One multicellular organism. Genesis Animalia. A fractalized cubic tower stretches up towards the heavens housing the spiritual nucleus altar inside.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/complexahedron/
Contact: [email protected]1000 Hands by Nicholas DeBruyne & Maria Gotay with Wevolve Labs & Art Island (Build Week)
from: Austin, TX
year: 2023
This 50′ tall collective tapestry illustrating a world on fire stands as one of the largest & most vivid works at Burning Man, transforming shape by desert winds and participant interaction.
By day, the work depicts a fiery landscape, sparking reflection of our climate reality. At night, a serene scene illuminates in light, inspiring waking dreams of a hope-filled future.
Participants are able to swing from the base of the tapestry and experience the sensation of “the world on their shoulders,” witnessing the ripple effect of their actions displayed on a monumental scale.
As the name “1000 Hands” suggests, over 500 participants co-created this artwork, forming a community for whom the process was equally as important as the final product.
URL: https://1000handsart.com/
Contact: [email protected]Playa TeamworkThe Artery and Communications Tower (Build Week)Communications TowerATABEY’s Treasure by NiNo (Build Week)
from: Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico
year: 2023
ATABEY’s Treasure is represented as a fish leaping off the ground. The goddess of fresh water to the indigenous Taíno people in the Caribbean. Given the environmental challenges my Puerto Rico has experienced recently, we chose to honor her spirit. This will be ATABEY 2.0
URL: https://www.facebook.com/atabeystreasure/
Contact: [email protected]Fine Tuning The ManThe Man and Pastel SkiesFine Tuning The ManFine Tuning The ManThe West by: Ross Asselstine from: San Anselmo, CA
year: 2023
This piece is a massive piece of barbed wire.
Why is the West? What is The West? Who strings up so much damned barbed wire? Who is on either side of barded wire?6 And Gate Road (build week)The Man (Build Week)The Man (Build Week)Burden of The Beast
by: Walker Babington (Build Week)
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2023
“Burden of The Beast,” is a fantastical folk art sculpture depicting a bison with a house at its torso. It symbolizes the task of relocating one’s intrinsic understanding of ‘home.’
Both the bison & the house are made with materials from New Orleans structures which have been destroyed by climate disasters, as though the pieces of a fallen home had the sentience and will to collect what could be salvaged, stand up, and head toward higher ground.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sabatomstudios/
Contact: [email protected]Spiruvious by BoKo Fine Art (Build Week)
from: Las Vegas, NV
year: 2023
Loosely based on desert plants this sculpture strives to understand and recreate the forces of nature. The piece is very industrial in appearance with the sheer steel facade and plastic bubbling light fixtures, and so, the elements of nature are represented by the gradual shift in color of the light and the ever persistent shrieks and thumps of the sound. Just like the vibrations of life, this sculpture’s life force will pulse through it in a slow and melodic manner. The piece, although beautiful during the day, is dormant, only coming to life as the sun sets each night. People are inevitably be drawn to these representations of energy forces and so the sculpture and its surrounding environment will inevitably become a serene social space.
URL: https://www.boko.art
Contact: [email protected]The Ursas by Jen Lewin (build week)
from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2023
Named after the constellations Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, The Ursas features two towering polar bears. In 2022, Ursa Minor, a 13-foot tall sculpture debuted on playa. Inspired by Polaris, the work’s glowing and multi-paneled infinity-mirrored body reminds us to “Look Up.”
In 2023 Ursa Minor will return, but this time with her big sister. Standing over three stories tall, Ursa Major’s hollow body is filled with glowing infinity mirrors, each reflecting mosaic drawings of extinct animals from the past 12 months.
The pair, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, stand in solidarity.
Ursa Minor in hope, looking up.
Ursa Major, as a cathedral and tomb, to species lost.
URL: https://www.jenlewinstudio.com/portfolio/ursa-minor/
Contact: [email protected]The Temple (Build Week)The Temple (Build Week)The Temple (Build Week)The Temple (Build Week)Look at how smooth the roads were. 630 and I Build WeekYurt StackBox OfficeWill CallWill Call – My experience here was fast and efficient as always. Thank you.This is my friend Jamen Percy. He is a badass photographer and incredible human. He is pictured here absolutely thrilled to have made it to playa after countless hours of preparation, stress, and work coming all the way from Australia. Jamen is an absolute legend. Check out his incredible work here: https://www.instagram.com/jamenpercy.burn/I had this song blasting at full volume as we quietly entered the city at slow speed. Windows down. The magic awaits. As an aside, it’s notable that you don’t see people drive fast on gate road during build week. They know you go slow. https://open.spotify.com/track/52OzHDL7QSF8ag7N16B8wtNo burner ever travels the same Gate Road twice, for it’s not the same dust and they’re not the same soul.My GPS telling me I’m almost there. Super weird because I either haven’t noticed or it never says “almost there” on the screen. Maybe the Googlers/Alphabeteers/Wazers were having a little fun?BrunosIt wasn’t october when I shot this and it might be october when you see this but probably not.Road To The BurnBadass photographer Jamen Percy. Absolute legend. Check out his incredible work here: https://www.instagram.com/jamenpercy.burn/
Since you made it this far (are you nuts?! like me?!) here are some bonus 360 images! I had intended to do way more of these but the rain changed things up.
Thank You:
Special thanks to Dorothy, James, and Nina for unwavering support! Additionally, shoutouts to Jamen, Scott, Todd, Bonfire, QuickDraw, Jazzy, Gary, Drew, Vanessa, Baltazar, Purple Haze, Mattias, Harold, Tracey, Marian, Leslie, Dominique, Media Mecca Gang, Crimson, DA/Resto Crew, the Documentation Team, Michael F, Michael V, and the EMS team. Also thanks to Christian for helping with caption updates. Thank you all for your support!
See you next year. Remember, next year was better!
In this captivating photograph taken at Burning Man 2015, we are transported to a surreal world where the desert night comes to life. Under the starry sky, the iconic El Pulpo Mechanico, a fire-breathing mechanical octopus, stretches its luminescent tentacles as it stands tall amidst the Playa. To its side, the Storied Haven, an eclectic and whimsical structure, emanates an air of mystery and enchantment. In the background, the Temple of Promise stands as a sacred space for contemplation and connection. Bathed in the soft glow of lanterns and flame effects, these three awe-inspiring art installations create a harmonious and otherworldly scene that captures the essence of Burning Man’s spirit of creativity, collaboration, and human connection.
https://Duncan.co/enigmatic-trio-el-pulpo-storied-haven-and-temple-of-promise
Here are my Burning Man 2022 Photos! There are roughly a septillion photos on this page. Some images might be mildly NSFW. Please be patient while this page loads. It might take like 10 minutes or more to load. Seriously. This page is hundreds of megabytes and really shouldn’t be. If you use Safari it will probably even tell you the page uses too much memory lol. Page is thicccc. Sorry! All of my Burning Man images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial license. If you share them please attribute the photographs to me by name and link to Duncan.co That’s all just a fancy way of saying you can’t sell my photographs, make prints of them, or make money from them in any way whatsoever. That includes advertising on a website.
Please Help! I make many mistakes when posting so many photos like this. The captions are often wrong or just missing. I would appreciate any comments (very bottom of page, waaaaay down below) or direct emails helping me fix up my mistakes. You can also email me ( [email protected] ) to tell me how I’m doing it wrong or where the mistakes are. I will update this post to reflect your comment or email. Please include lots of detail and any relevant links. Please copy the link to the photo or email me the photo so I know which image it is.
More Information Nobody Is Going To Read: The images below are in mostly chronological order. This was first published October, 12th 2022. Sorry for being slow this year!
Music!!! Here is my Burning Man 2022 playlist. I made this so you have something to listen to while browsing these images. (open this link in another window or the Spotify app…) The legend @muloka has compiled this collection from 2022 here if my playlist doesn’t work for you.
Updates
October 13, 2022: I just uploaded all these photos to Photo.Duncan.co so if you are having trouble viewing the images below try that.
October 14, 2022: These photos have now been uploaded to Flickr
Here are my Burning Man 2021 Photos! There are roughly a sextillion photos on this page. Some images might be mildly NSFW. Please be patient while this page loads. All of my Burning Man images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial license. If you share them please attribute the photographs to me by name and link to Duncan.co You cannot sell my photographs, make prints of them, or make money from them in any way whatsoever. That includes advertising on a website.
Wait HALP! I make lots of mistakes with posting photos like this. The captions are often wrong and I would be really appreciate any comments (very bottom of page) or direct emails telling me about it. Email me to tell me how I’m doing it wrong or where the typos are etc. I will then update this post to reflect your comment or email. Just copy the link to the photo, take note of the photo number, or email the photo to me so I’ll know which photo you’re talking about.
More Useless Information: The images below are in mostly reverse chronological order. This was first published September, 23 2021. These photos are also on Flickr and Photo.Duncan.co should you want a different viewing experience.
Started a Reddit thread if you want to chime in. September 24, 2021.
Fixed the alignment issues with this post. It should look better now. September 29, 2021.
Fixed some captions. October 5th, 2021.
When I updated my server it messed up a bunch of things here. So if you want to see a full resolution version of a particular photo remove the -1200px.jpg from the image url after you have clicked on an individual photo. Not ideal but I’ll fix it soon. June 22, 2022.
Fixed links to full resolution images. July 6, 2022.
Click on any image to view at full resolution.
Thank You for letting me be a tiny little part of your community. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Aerial Photo Burning Man 2021 – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Aerial Photo Burning Man 2021 – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Aerial Photo Burning Man 2021 – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Aerial Photo Burning Man 2021 – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Aerial Photo Burning Man 2021 – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Aerial Photo Burning Man 2021 – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Aerial Photo Burning Man 2021 – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Aerial Photo Burning Man 2021 – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Aerial Photo Burning Man 2021 – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Free Your Mind – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Sunrise – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Name Unknown – If you know the name of this please email me: [email protected] – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Bikes that had been rounded up near the end of the “burn”. I recorded a GPS track of my entire burn. Each time I went to a big party/sound camp (robot heart etc) I would mark a waypoint on my GPS. Right before leaving some friends and I jumped in my jeep and visited each of those spots to cleanup MOOP. We were delighted that there was only minimal MOOP. Props to the Robot Heart crew in particular for cleaning up so well. LNT! – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The creativity and design you see out there always blows my mind. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The heart from Robot Heart is heads home. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Temple(s) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The G-String by Chris Callor. (thank you Garvinfred for helping me here) Elegant patterns emerge from a string that is spun very quickly. Wonderful piece! – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Name Unknown – Email me if you know the name of this and I will update this. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The Brodega. Amazing.- Thank you for the pickle sauce marshmallow. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The Brodega. Amazing.- Thank you for the pickle sauce marshmallow. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
USS Nevada Mutant Vehicle from Camp Gallavant – (Thanks to @dr_bombay for the caption update here) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Helicopter Bus Takeoff – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Name Unknown – Email me if you know the name of this and I will update this. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Desert Sled Motorcycle Club – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Trego Scenes – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Desert Sled Motorcycle Club – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Desert Sled Motorcycle Club – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Desert Sled Motorcycle Club – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Name Unknown – If you know the name of this please email me: [email protected] – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
What is this Buffalo Doing?! LMAO – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Sunrise – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Sunrise – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Sleeping Outside – I was in a tent this year for the first time and I was even cold in there with a nice bed and sleeping bag. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Sleeping Outside – I was in a tent this year for the first time and I was even cold in there with a nice bed and sleeping bag. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Manticore by the Man Team (thanks to Garvinfred for helping me with the name here) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Good Morning – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Temple(s) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Night Scenes Around the Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Baby Abraxas Mutant Vehicle – (Thanks Sofy for the caption update here) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Manticore by the Man Team (thanks to Garvinfred for helping me with the name here) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Name Unknown – If you know the name of this please email me: [email protected] – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Let’s Party – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Let’s Party – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Let’s Party – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Name Unknown – If you know the name of this please email me: [email protected] – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Name Unknown – If you know the name of this please email me: [email protected] – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Not for hire! – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The amazing Plan B people made these tickets and asked my friend Sarge to give a few away. This dude was stoked to get a vehicle pass and a ticket. The tickets were designed by LilJoy Ginburg & Lofax Elifas. Vehicle pass by Thu Nguyen https://www.facebook.com/groups/368518897848763/posts/444282216939097/ – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Playa Force One – Mutant Vehicle – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Amazing human. Love You Dude. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Mutant Vehicle with Tail Gunner Name Unknown – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The Man – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The Man – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Cruising around with my friend and he says “you probably won’t see many mutant vehicles that look like that during a normal burn”. You’re right! Normally something like this would be covered in art or something. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
RV with Shark and Octopus Paint Job – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
String of Silver Balloons – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Pool Table with Sweet Rims – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Pastel Layers at Dusk – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Pastel Layers at Dusk – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Friends Sign – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
WASTED (please don’t do this) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Diplo at Robot Heart 2021 – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Radical Self Porta Potty – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
BRC4 – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Riding on the Roof – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Surrealee Spinning LED Whips – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Surrealee Spinning LED Whips – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Let’s Party – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The Man at The Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The Man at The Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The Man at The Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
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The Man at The Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The Man at The Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The Man at The Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The Man at The Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The Man at The Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The Man at The Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Organic Shapes at The Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Organic Shapes at The Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Organic Shapes at The Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Organic Shapes at The Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Organic Shapes at The Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Organic Shapes at The Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Organic Shapes at The Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Organic Shapes at The Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
LEOs no Likey Riding on the Roof – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Some wonderful moments of organic chaos out there. People and cars going slowly in all directions. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Some wonderful moments of organic chaos out there. People and cars going slowly in all directions. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Some wonderful moments of organic chaos out there. People and cars going slowly in all directions. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Mutant Vehicles Positioning for the Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
After One of the Man Burns – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
One of the best parts of Burning Man culture is the conversations you have with people you don’t normally get to hang with. I learn so much out there every year. There are so many people who are just downright smarter and better than me as humans. I try to learn from them. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
I saw someone throwing something on the ground here and biked in a very judgy “let me go talk to this person, they clearly don’t know what MOOP is” way. Low and behold some unknown artist wasn’t making a mess they were making art out of the playa itself. Burners are amazing and the opposite of what I thought was reality. If you know the name of the artist here please email me: [email protected] – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
I saw someone throwing something on the ground here and biked in a very judgy “let me go talk to this person, they clearly don’t know what MOOP is” way. Low and behold some unknown artist wasn’t making a mess they were making art out of the playa itself. Burners are amazing and the opposite of what I thought was reality. If you know the name of the artist here please email me: [email protected] – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Shading Man – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Shading Man and Smoky Skies – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Smoky Skies and Jeep Camper – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Diplo at Robot Heart 2021 – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Playa Force One – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Winner of the Best Camp Landmark – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Night Scenes Around the Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The Teapot by Kyonica Von Houten – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Drones after the big show – I’m not sure if it was the same people who did it as previous years (StudioDrift) but their openness and community involvement was 100x better this year than the wall in the past. Props! – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Drones after the big show – I’m not sure if it was the same people who did it as previous years (StudioDrift) but their openness and community involvement was 100x better this year than the wall in the past. Props! – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Drones after the big show – I’m not sure if it was the same people who did it as previous years (StudioDrift) but their openness and community involvement was 100x better this year than the wall in the past. Props! – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Drones after the big show – I’m not sure if it was the same people who did it as previous years (StudioDrift) but their openness and community involvement was 100x better this year than the wall in the past. Props! – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Manticore by the Man Team (thanks to Garvinfred for helping me with the name here) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Night Scenes Around the Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Night Scenes Around the Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Night Scenes Around the Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Brief Flame – Two seconds later BLM came and asked them to turn the fire off. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Manticore by the Man Team – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Preparations for the Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Preparations for the Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Preparations for the Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Preparations for the Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Preparations for the Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Preparations for the Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Preparations for the Drone LightShow – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Manticore by the Man Team (thanks to Garvinfred for helping me with the name here) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Manticore by the Man Team (thanks to Garvinfred for helping me with the name here) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Various Camps and Rigs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Bus Conversion with Telescope. One of the great things about Burners is that so many of them are way smarter than me. I would never have thought to bring a telescope to mount on the roof of my rig but this person did! See the stars and all of the playa from your own spot. Genius. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Aunt Edna Mutant Vehicle- (Thanks James for the caption update here) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Heart with Cactus at Night Caption from Mark: the hearts were created by the[ mischief lab.] it was a collaboration of artists. mark swizee mischief lab garberville ca. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Free Candy Van – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The G-String by Chris Callor. (thank you Garvinfred for helping me here) Elegant patterns emerge from a string that is spun very quickly. Wonderful piece! – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
BRC Weekly – Reading BRC Weekly is always such a treat and so on point. It was wonderful to meet you! Read it here: https://brcweekly.com – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Rogue Scarab Mutant Vehicle – (Thanks Greg for the caption update here) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Wonderful Burner – Thanks for racing with me! – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Thank you for letting me ride your Reverse Tandem Bike! It was way easier and more stable than I would have guessed. Fun! – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Keep It Simple – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Shading Man – A LEO forced these guys to make this into a shade structure due to the order. They waiited while they did it. They could have driven away and come back to check but they waited. So these amazing burners turned it into shading man on the spot. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The Colosseum and I HAVE DUST IN CURIOUS PLACES – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
I HAVE DUST IN CURIOUS PLACES – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Heart with Cactus Caption from Mark: the hearts were created by the[ mischief lab.] it was a collaboration of artists. mark swizee mischief lab garberville ca. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Heart with Cactus Caption from Mark: the hearts were created by the[ mischief lab.] it was a collaboration of artists. mark swizee mischief lab garberville ca. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Nothing Set In Stone – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Elemental – If you know who this rad dude is, I would love to hear more of his music. Email me: [email protected] – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Things Line Up – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Bitsy The Praying Mantis Puppet at the legendary Altitude Lounge – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
This young lady was in a hurry and kindly stopped for a second so I could make this photo. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Sometimes I have to shoot people on the fly as they go by at speed because they don’t want to or don’t have time to stop. What great colors here! – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Playa Legends- My autofocus glitched here. This lens had been acting up ever since I ddropped it in a big storm. This turned out nicely though despite the glitch. Thank you for everything guys <3 I’ll make a better photo next time. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Who Needs To Take A Shit? – These amazing people were on the “esplanade” calling out to anyone that walked by and were offering to let people do their business. It was hilarious to watch people react to this madness. Thank you for the non-alcoholic drink and the sheer joy of watching people react to be offered a place to take a crap out in the open. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
This guy came up and said “What are you taking pictures for?” Implying that we were doing it wrong or whatever. He was not ready for my judo move of including him in the fun we were having making images. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Lee Burridge Robot Heart 2021 – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Lee Burridge Robot Heart 2021 – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Lee Burridge Robot Heart 2021 – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
One of the fascinating things about this event was the ability to drive wherever you want. Some folks drove right out to the large parties and then other people urinated on their vehicles. At a regular burn you can’t drive except to your camp and back out. This reduces dust and injuries. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Burner and Dog – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The Sun Rises on an Empty Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The Playa Beach Club – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Drone With LED Props – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
LEOs – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Cool Sculpture Atop Boat – Thanks for the wonderful chat and the postcard. It was pretty meta for my wife to get a postcard with tha photo you randomly took from the internet (which I shot I think). Email me if you see this. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Bitsy The Praying Mantis Puppet at the legendary Altitude Lounge – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Wonderful Burners – Great to see you again D! – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Live Music Stage at SK8 Fish – (Thanks to Gleamlaw for the caption update here) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Wonderful Burner – Love the jewelry :) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Sundown on the Esplanade at SK8 Fish – (Thanks to Gleamlaw for the caption update here) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Sundown on the Esplanade at SK8 Fish – (Thanks to Gleamlaw for the caption update here) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Awesomeball at Awesomesauce – Sarge offered to join in the game and show random burners how to play no matter how tired Sarge was. Over and over and over. It’s these small contributions that nobody sees (times a billion) that makes the community so amazing. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Amazing Human – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Super Deep Playa Party Name Unknown – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Super Deep Playa Party Name Unknown – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Love – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
TheRedEyedRabbit Mutant Vehicle – (Thanks to Gleamlaw for the caption update here) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
What Happens If I Squeeze This? – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Nice Dome by Beej S – (Thanks Greg for the caption update here.) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Blowing Minds at Sammiches – They were not ready for what Sarge told them. Video of Sarge getting a high five shot my friend Michael. https://www.facebook.com/3409701/videos/522464078843783/ – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Blowing Minds at Sammiches – They were not ready for what Sarge told them. Video of Sarge getting a high five shot my friend Michael. https://www.facebook.com/3409701/videos/522464078843783/ – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Blowing Minds at Sammiches – They were not ready for what Sarge told them. Video of Sarge getting a high five shot my friend Michael. https://www.facebook.com/3409701/videos/522464078843783/ – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Temple of Love – What a relaxing place this was. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Temple of Love – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Good Times – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Name Unknown – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Chaiman of the Bored – Not sure what the name if the new chair is, hmu if you know. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Dogfish Mutant Vehicle out of Reno – (Thanks Greg for the caption update) https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Always Fun To Hit Jumps – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Lots of Food at SK8 Fish – (Thanks to Gleamlaw for the caption update here) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
dEOXidized – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Nice to Meet You – Thanks for the Costa Rica tips! – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Stop And Dance – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Nice Colors! – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
And You Only Brought a Tent – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Colorful RV – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Middle of the Circle – These fine folks were handing out food in the middle of the circle. Thanks for the food and the bike race! – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Dust and Bliss – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Biking With Friends – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Biking With Friends – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Biking With Friends – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Tent with Boots – This is how I feel right now. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
New Friends – Great to meet you both. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Awesomeball at Awesomesauce – Sarge offered to join in the game and show random burners how to play no matter how tired Sarge was. Over and over and over. It’s these small contributions that nobody sees (times a billion) that makes the community so amazing. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Awesomeball at Awesomesauce – Sarge offered to join in the game and show random burners how to play no matter how tired Sarge was. Over and over and over. It’s these small contributions that nobody sees (times a billion) that makes the community so amazing. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
DON’T LOSE YOUR COOL – This is a game with a sensor that reads your brain waves. The goal is to mess with the person wearing it enough to make them crack and lose their cool. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
AWESOMESAUCE – We know tape is not a good idea but whatever. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Nice Little Solar Array Dude! – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Wonderful Campmates – Two wonderful friends put up their project for the year. Thanks for letting me take part. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Rad Playa Snow Mobile – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Rad Playa Snow Mobile – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Roar – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Jack’s COV-19 Jazz Bar – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Colorful RV – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
DONT FUCK UP – When I asked this person what happens if you fuck up he shrugged and said “I don’t know” – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Stew by Kathy Donofrio – If memory serves this one was called Stew. (thanks to Garvinfred for helping identify the artist here) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Stew by Kathy Donofrio – If memory serves this one was called Stew. (thanks to Garvinfred for helping identify the artist here) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Stew by Kathy Donofrio – If memory serves this one was called Stew. (thanks to Garvinfred for helping identify the artist here) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Stew by Kathy Donofrio – If memory serves this one was called Stew. (thanks to Garvinfred for helping identify the artist here) – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
100 Miles Starts Here – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Mr Wonderful being wonderful. – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Good Times – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
I’m always impressed with people who can things with their bodies like this! It was great to meet you. Email me if you happen to see this. [email protected] – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
I’m always impressed with people who can things with their bodies like this! It was great to meet you. Email me if you happen to see this. [email protected] – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Cool Flaming Cactus and Rig – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Thanks for the Candy! – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
The Rare and Endangered Playa Cat! – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Cute – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Every year I have to learn the lesson that if I say “oh cool i’ll beback to shoot this when you are done setting up” that means I will never be back for some reason or another. I never made it back here but thanks for the Candy! – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Camp With The Hugging Tree – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Driving Out To The Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Driving Out To The Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Driving Out To The Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Driving Out To The Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
WELCOME TO THE VACANT HEART OF THE WILD WEST LEAVE NO TRACE – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Driving Out To The Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Driving Out To The Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Driving Out To The Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Driving Out To The Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Driving Out To The Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Driving Out To The Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Driving Out To The Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Driving Out To The Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Driving Out To The Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Driving Out To The Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Driving Out To The Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Driving Out To The Playa – https://Duncan.co/Burning-Man-2021
Thank You Dorothy 😘 Thank you Dorothy for continuing to allow me to come out to the burn. Thank you for holding it down so the community could have these images and I could refill my creative tank. I love you very much!
More Thank Yous Thank you: Sarge, Mr. Wonderful, the Adoraboys Ragamuffins, Scott, Jeremy, and the rest of our camp. Thanks as well to Greg and the Altitude Lounge crew. Also special thanks to whomever made that Black Rock Dessert Camps site. Seeing that map really confirmed my decision to take part.
Shout Outs Shout out to the entire Burning Man community for doing it mostly right. All things considered, that went off very well for an organic self organized Free Burn/Renegade/Plan B/not Burning Man.
Thank you for including me!
Keep Burning Man turbo-weird and potentially fatal!
There are roughly a Quintillion photos on this page. Please be patient while this massive page loads. All of my Burning Man images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial license. If you share them you must attribute the photographs to me by name and link to Duncan.co This means you cannot sell my photographs, make prints of them, or make money from them in any way whatsoever. That includes advertising on a website.
Rough Year
It was a tough year out on the playa but the art was like totes amazing. I really struggled this year to make it happen. Between the global pandemic, wearing a mask 24/7, and the heat, it was just a slog to make all these photos. I was pretty tired coming into the burn but I tried my best as usual. The photos are mostly in reverse chronological order. If you look at the filename it will tell you the date.
Click on any photo (Right click and open in new window or command click on mac for a new window so you don’t lose your place) to open the photo at full resolution.
(Wait for it. There is more to this than you think. Click Continue Reading if you’re on the main page of Duncan.co to see the images)
Here are my Burning Man 2019 Photos! There are roughly a quadrillion photos on this page. Some images might be NSFW. Please be patient while this page loads. All of my Burning Man images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial license. If you share them you must attribute the photographs to me by name and link to Duncan.co You cannot sell my photographs, make prints of them, or make money from them in any way whatsoever. That includes advertising on a website.
Rough Shape Raising two small children is taking a toll on me. My kids are now 2 and 4 years old and I’m pretty much exhausted all the time and I’ve gained quite a bit of weight. So I started the 2019 Burn mentally fried, physically exhausted, and totally out of shape. I also injured myself just before the burn. I reached back behind the passenger seat of my car to lift a very heavy camera bag (duh!) and destroyed my forearm. Something pulled or tore in my right forearm and it hasn’t been the same since. Fun! When I arrived on playa after driving over 2000 miles in an RV I was in pretty rough shape. So bear with me.
Wifi is Stupid I had the brilliant idea of running a Wifi network for my camp this year. In previous burns I had wasted lots of time seeking connectivity to send an ALL OK message back and forth to my family home. So I did what you do, I built a bigass wifi network. I then opened the network to everyone in the spirit of radical inclusion. No password or captive portal or anything. (Just throttled speed) The network performed well thanks to the work of the Burning Man IT team and my friend Sarge. That said, it was shocking to see how quickly people went from being thrilled to find out they have connectivity to complaining about it. The network would sometimes be down early in the morning when I wasn’t even in camp (batteries would run down at night) and folks would bug me about it upon my return. The last thing I wanted to do was deal with tech support when all I wanted was rest. At peak there were 131 devices connected to my network at any one time. The most essential use of the network (other than me talking to my family) was a person who used the network to call Switzerland. This person’s mother had recently gone into hospital and had been diagnosed with Cancer. Some people were people streaming Netflix despite me asking them not to abuse the network. They then wondered why they got blocked. You give an inch…
Tried My Best What follows is the best I could do given the state of my mind and body. I hope it’s enough. I worked for the entire burn so the Burning Man community could enjoy these images.
Wait HALP! I tend to make lots of mistakes here with captions and I would be really appreciate any comments (very bottom of page) or direct emails telling me how about it. For example you could tell me the names of various unknown pieces or art. Or just how I’m doing it wrong. I will then update this post to reflect your comment or email. Just copy the link to the photo or email the photo to me so I’ll know which photo you’re talking about.
More Useless Information: The images below are in reverse chronological order starting with the man burn and ending with the builds. This was first published October 18th, 2019. These images are also on Flickr and Photo.Duncan.co.
Reversed order of photos and fixed a few captions.
Click on any photo to see it at full resolution.
Thank you to the Burning Man Org and community.
Man Burn
Man Burn
Man Burn
Man Burn
This is what it looks like when you’re so exhausted you completely screw up. I guess next time I should be more prepared and take better care of myself. There is always next year I guess. :( In this image I managed to not only over expose the frame but it’s also out of focus. So frustrating but thought I’d share one of my many many failures this year.
Pyrotechnics at The Man Burn
Pyrotechnics at The Man Burn
Pyrotechnics at The Man Burn
The Man
The Man
The Man
Man Burn Night
Crimson Rose is a badass
Man Burn Night
Man Burn Night
Moon (only real Moons this year?)
Man Base dusk burn night.
The Monumental Mammoth
by: Girl Scout Gold Award Recipient Tahoe Mack, Mentor and Protector of Tule Springs Representative Sherri Grotheer, and artists Luis Varela-Rico and Dana Albany
from: Las Vegas, NV
year: 2019
The Monumental Mammoth project will depict a life-sized steel Colombian mammoth skeleton collaged with metal found objects to tell the story of Tule Spring National Monument’s past, present, and future. The sheer size and struggle of the mammoth’s stance is a representation of the universal call to protect what the earth has given humanity. As a community, we are called together to protect the fossils of our past and the education of our future. Dana Albany and Luis Varela-Rico are pulling together the sleek elements of the interior steel structure and the intricate weavings to represents the distinctive community that is Las Vegas.It also tells the story of a rising feminine power, and shows all women of any age that anything is possible!
URL: https://tulemammothproject.wordpress.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVtMUAW
Lovely burner
Disco Jesus and a friend
Burner and RV with amazing artwork. Love the colors here. RV Art by = Sector 17 = [email protected]
Lovely burner
Koro Loko
by: Emily Nicolosi
from: Salt Lake City, UT
year: 2019
A billowing heart made of wire netting filled with hundreds of tiny dichroic plexi squares refracts the spectra of light in all directions. Benches under lightposts encircling the heart provide a place to hunker, commune and daydream. Like the exuberance of colors reflected by this heart, always-present and ever-shifting, this heart conjures the thousands of expressions and materializations of love prospected in the human experience.
URL: https://sites.google.com/view/love-is-project/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AW2sUAG
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The man is prepped for the man burn.
Up close with the man
Koro Loko
by: Emily Nicolosi
from: Salt Lake City, UT
year: 2019
A billowing heart made of wire netting filled with hundreds of tiny dichroic plexi squares refracts the spectra of light in all directions. Benches under lightposts encircling the heart provide a place to hunker, commune and daydream. Like the exuberance of colors reflected by this heart, always-present and ever-shifting, this heart conjures the thousands of expressions and materializations of love prospected in the human experience.
URL: https://sites.google.com/view/love-is-project/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AW2sUAG
Paraluna
by: Christopher Schardt
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2019
Paraluna is a giant, spinning disc of LEDs. Classical music plays from speakers on the ground while complementary animated patterns are displayed on the disc above. The disc is held up by a boom lift, allowing the disc to be raised, lowered, and tilted, to dramatic effect.
URL: http://ledlabs.co/paraluna
Contact: [email protected]
Monaco Sail Boat / Mutant Vehicle
Monaco Sail Boat / Mutant Vehicle
Monaco Sail Boat Mutant Vehicle and Cone Down Black and White
Monaco Sail Boat / Mutant Vehicle
Monaco Sail Boat / Mutant Vehicle
Monaco Sail Boat / Mutant Vehicle
DANGER! Men At Twerk
Teamwork makes the dream work.
<3
Two amazing pilots! Thank you for the views.
Always a pleasure to fly on this beauty.
We love you Purple Haze. Thank you!
We love you Purple Haze. Thank you!
Some nature at the foot of Old Razorback mountain
Up close with Old Razorback Mountain
Aerial view of the area around Black Rock City
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
Burning Man 2019 Aerial Photo. I shot this while hanging out the window of a small Cessna. The image was shot on Friday August 31, 2019. Thank you to the pilot of the aircraft Purple Haze.
We love you Purple Haze. Thank you!
We love you Purple Haze. Thank you!
Aircraft at NV88.
Aircraft at NV88.
Aircraft at NV88.
Aircraft at NV88.
Aircraft at NV88.
Aircraft at NV88.
Aircraft at NV88.
Nice layers of shade on this tent.
The ‘I was so exhausted I couldn’t get out of bed so I climbed on the roof of my RV “sunrise” shot’…
Come, come, whoever you are.
Wanderer, idolator, worshipper of fire even though you have broken your vows a thousand times,
Come, and come yet again. Ours is not a caravan of despair. – Rumi
The Wheels of Zoroaster Resurrection
by: Anton Viditz-Ward & Deep Creek Experimental
from: Telluride, CO
year: 2019
Two large wheels hung on two axles driven independently by two drive shafts with hand-cranks. The wheels are cages that will contain firewood that is set on fire and spun by the hand-cranked drive shafts.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW1fUAG
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Green flame at The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly Burn
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Deep playa art at night. Name unknown.
Bathtub near the trash fence at night. Name unknown.
Pyramid Name Unknown
The InnerSun Project
by: The InnerSun Crew
from: The World
year: 2019
This monumental art structure is an eight-story wooden globe gently cradled by a giant pair of hands. Within, the space is lit by a sacred light: the InnerSun. A series of wheelchair accessible ramps wind up the curved walls to an equatorial terrace, where participants will gather inside the sphere.
The InnerSun Project: A global art collaboration. Each massive hand on the structure is comprised of individual human-sized hands with messages from across the world written on them — our collective answer to “what’s your InnerSun?” In this way, thousands of people from anywhere in the world can take part in the artwork itself.
Many hands, one light, a better world.
URL: http://www.theinnersun.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXiaUAG
One of my favorite experiences this burn was controlling these 500AMP spotlights wirelessly using a tablet. You drag your finger across the tablet screen and the spotlights move accordingly. Also these folks let me put on welders glasses so I could stick my face in front of the beam and see the arc light. It was scary as hell and my face got hot very fast but damn was it incredible! Thank you! (These were previously military spotlights that would have infrared beams so the battlefield would be illuminated to soldiers wearing infrared goggles… In that situation the beams were invisible to the enemy.) Project Flashlight by: Neal Strickberger from: San Francisco, CA year: 2019 Project flashlight is the joy of light at grand scale. Pure, incredibly bright white beam-like fingers of God in the dust, contrast with the night sky, scale across the open playa, interplay of beams, light in motion. Military/NASA billion-candlepower searchlights, reanimated for art! Interactive with tablet controls. URL: http://projectflashlight.org Contact: [email protected] https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AY00UAG
One of my favorite experiences this burn was controlling these 500AMP spotlights wirelessly using a tablet. You drag your finger across the tablet screen and the spotlights move accordingly. Also these folks let me put on welders glasses so I could stick my face in front of the beam and see the arc light. It was scary as hell and my face got hot very fast but damn was it incredible! Thank you! (These were previously military spotlights that would have infrared beams so the battlefield would be illuminated to soldiers wearing infrared goggles… In that situation the beams were invisible to the enemy.) Project Flashlight by: Neal Strickberger from: San Francisco, CA year: 2019 Project flashlight is the joy of light at grand scale. Pure, incredibly bright white beam-like fingers of God in the dust, contrast with the night sky, scale across the open playa, interplay of beams, light in motion. Military/NASA billion-candlepower searchlights, reanimated for art! Interactive with tablet controls. URL: http://projectflashlight.org Contact: [email protected] https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AY00UAG
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
It was a real treat to see my brazillian friends. I hadn’t seen them since like 2016.
This bride was looking for a bottle opener. I always carry a multitool on me so I opened the bottle. Then we made htis image.
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
I had been following Steve’s work for ages online so it was nice to meet him IRL.
On the nose but can’t resist.
Wonderful campmates. Thank you for making Burning Man amazing.
Wonderful campmates. Thank you for making Burning Man amazing.
My friend Scott making great images. You can see some of his spectacular work here: https://www.scottlondon.com
Wonderful campmates. Thank you for making Burning Man amazing.
Wonderful campmates. Thank you for making Burning Man amazing.
Wonderful campmates. Thank you for making Burning Man amazing. (with a campmate who couldn’t make the group photo lazily photoshopped in)
Wonderful campmates. Thank you for making Burning Man amazing.
Wonderful campmates. Thank you for making Burning Man amazing.
Wonderful campmates. Thank you for making Burning Man amazing.
Such a nice guy
This fellow had lots of energy and he was very friendly.
Skydivers and The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Ran into Rick while taking a break in the shade of his vehicle.
ICHY Artist Name Unknown
Always great to see to see you on the playa my man!
The Temple of Direction (and El Pulpo Mechanico)
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction (and El Pulpo Mechanico)
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction (and El Pulpo Mechanico)
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Merrilee Proffitt on the Electric Wrecker Mutant Vehicle, by Keith Johnson and Merrilee Proffitt
elevation
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXPsUAO
Expansion Pavilion, The Folly, and Old Razorback Mountain
Duane and Micki in front of their El Pulpo Mecanico Mutant Vehicle and Reared In Steel’s Fire Kethedral
El Pulpo Mecanico and Reared In Steel’s Fire Kethedral
Closeup of El Pulpo Mecanico Mutant Vehicle
El Pulpo Mecanico Mutant Vehicle
The Tower
by: ART BARF
from: Seattle, WA
year: 2019
The Tower is an interactive lifeguard stand and observation deck accessible by ladder. Visitors can climb up to the deck and observe the playa from a new vantage. Inside the hut, visitors find simple tools for spontaneous interaction. Made of untreated wood, the simple shape looks both silly and at home on the waterless beach. Named for card 16 in the tarot’s major arcana, where The Tower represents the chaos of sudden change.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9sTUAS
Stone 27
by: Benjamin Langholz
from: California & Berlin, Germany
year: 2019
Confront nature and yourself as you journey along 27 stones floating above the Playa. Step into an alternate reality where destructive energy has been harmonized with nature to create moments of physical and mental elevation. Stone 27 finds great inspiration in simplicity, minimalism, and math to create clearness and consciousness in a material world, inviting you to a moment of complete presence.
URL: https://stonetwentyseven.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVo2UAG
I run my entire life sober so seeing something like this just totally blows my mind.
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
forget being the art. be the FART!
Portal
by: David Oliver and the Art City Monsters
from: Ventura, CA
year: 2019
A Portal possible of transformation… not to that which is coming, but to things here. With a ring 12′ in diameter made from 4,608 stained glass tiles with a total of 24 colors, graduating the color wheel in a flowing mosaic that is two sided. Two 7-thousand-pound basalt stone columns stand guard from the left and from the right. Portal will also be lit with an increasing laser light show controlled on a theremin device, with sound effects that go off when one enters.
Symbiosis.
The color in harmony attracts vitality through beauty, like a flower does a bee. The bee gets food in exchange for spreading pollen. In the same manner one attracts to Portal. Coming out with powerful frequencies, to bounce off their friends, their family, the animals, EARTH, and even so called… “enemies.”
URL: http://www.facebook.com/PORTALbrc/
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVueUAG
Danee is a fantastic photogapher and a good friend. You can see his work over at: https://www.daneehazama.com
Love Cow (Thanks to Anastasia for the caption update.)
Thank you for the ocarina performance. Always a pleasure.
Hammock Hangout Camp
Flintstones Mutant Vehicle
Free Photography Zone by John Brennan from Santa Clara, California
(Thanks to Reddit user Mookyhands for the caption update here.)
Nice digs at the airport.
Cleaning up MOOP is super important.
Mayan Warrior and Robot Heart
Robot Heart and Mayan Warrior
Nom Nom Nom (Camp name unknown)
Great to meet you.
Nice chatting with you!
Great to meet you!
Ibiza Camp Mutant Vehicle Engine, Robot Heart, And Mayan Warrior
Lovely burner
lovely burners
lovely burners
BROKEN BUT TOGETHER by Michael Benisty
MIRROR POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL
21 X 12 X 10 FT
6.5 X 3.6 X 3 M
2019
https://www.michaelbenisty.com
elevation
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXPsUAO
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance
by: tyson ayers and Resonant Arts
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2019
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance is a sanctuary dedicated to letting participants experience the phenomena of sympathetic resonance. All the walls of this epic structure are made of piano harps, surrounding the participant with 20,000 musical strings that echo back every sound they make. All the strings are tuned to pentatonic scales based on the Schumann Resonance, the earth’s fundamental frequency, so that anything played on the strings sounds musical. Five intimate, pentagonal chambers let participants deeply immerse themselves in the experience, while the open-air center space allows for larger gatherings. A 39′ tower rises up from the center’s intricately designed dias while detailed artworks adorn the space.
URL: http://www.soundcave.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVn4UAG
Waiting for sunrise.
BROKEN BUT TOGETHER by Michael Benisty
MIRROR POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL
21 X 12 X 10 FT
6.5 X 3.6 X 3 M
2019
https://www.michaelbenisty.com
The party continues. This was shot before dawn at Robot Heart and the Mayan Warrior
Name Unknown
Welcome Home
by: Joey Howell and Brian Dean of SALT MIND
from: Salt Lake City, UT
year: 2019
Burners call the playa home. Home not because of the location, but because of the people we share it with; friends, family, lovers, strangers. Welcome Home creates an absurdly normal setting by taking a space associated with default homes and bringing it to our true home. This fully decorated parlour in the sky invites wanderers to climb, explore, and enjoy the view.
URL: https://www.saltmindslc.com/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkeUAG
Name Unknown
Niloticus
by: Peter Hazel
from: Reno, NV
year: 2019
Niloticus is a 40 foot long mosaic crocodile that invites visitors to climb on top of him. His eyes, teeth, and osteoderms will light up in the night.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW2iUAG
Name Unknown
I.L.Y (After the pyrotechnic display)
by: Dan Mountain
from: Portola Valley, CA
year: 2019
A 27 foot forearm and hand, fabricated from engineered steel, recycled and repurposed scrap metal meant to engage participants in various visual, physical, and emotional ways. Housing an internal armature of chains, gears, sprockets, and springs, the involvement of participants allows the fingers and parts of the hand to bring the sculpture to its full realization.
The intention of ILY is to encourage communication, collaboration, and eagerness to work together.
Contact: [email protected]
I.L.Y. (Pyrotechnic Display)
by: Dan Mountain
from: Portola Valley, CA
year: 2019
A 27 foot forearm and hand, fabricated from engineered steel, recycled and repurposed scrap metal meant to engage participants in various visual, physical, and emotional ways. Housing an internal armature of chains, gears, sprockets, and springs, the involvement of participants allows the fingers and parts of the hand to bring the sculpture to its full realization.
The intention of ILY is to encourage communication, collaboration, and eagerness to work together.
Contact: [email protected]
Airfield for walking in the clouds
by: Weld Queen
from: Moscow, Russia
year: 2019
“Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a model of a fantasy airfield with ten dream-liners “Armchairs for walking in the clouds.”
The project is a large-scale interactive installation where people will be sitting and swinging in the “Armchairs for walking in the clouds” where they will be able to “break away” from the ground and be closer to their dreams. “Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a place where people can go on their own journey into the depths of their inner space.
URL: http://weldqueen.com/project/airfield-for-walking-in-the-clouds/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001TAiBUAW
Airfield for walking in the clouds
by: Weld Queen
from: Moscow, Russia
year: 2019
“Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a model of a fantasy airfield with ten dream-liners “Armchairs for walking in the clouds.”
The project is a large-scale interactive installation where people will be sitting and swinging in the “Armchairs for walking in the clouds” where they will be able to “break away” from the ground and be closer to their dreams. “Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a place where people can go on their own journey into the depths of their inner space.
URL: http://weldqueen.com/project/airfield-for-walking-in-the-clouds/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001TAiBUAW
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
BROKEN BUT TOGETHER by Michael Benisty
MIRROR POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL
21 X 12 X 10 FT
6.5 X 3.6 X 3 M
2019
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance, the Folly, and Old Razorback in Black and White
Burner holding large American flag.
Temple Guardian
The Flybrary
by: Christina Sporrong
from: Taos, NM
year: 2019
The Flybrary is an extraordinary library within an enormous human head, partially cut open at the top allowing a flock of illuminated birds to emerge. Within the head are several levels of catwalks to climb and nooks and crannies to sit in and enjoy the selection of books. The eyes and mouth are portholes to the outside world. Up above, the open ceiling holds a large chandelier radiating soft light within. It’s a dreamy, transformative space providing an intimate and surreal refuge for contemplation, written wisdom and freedom of thought.
URL: https://spitfireworks.blogspot.com/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW03UAG
The Flybrary
by: Christina Sporrong
from: Taos, NM
year: 2019
The Flybrary is an extraordinary library within an enormous human head, partially cut open at the top allowing a flock of illuminated birds to emerge. Within the head are several levels of catwalks to climb and nooks and crannies to sit in and enjoy the selection of books. The eyes and mouth are portholes to the outside world. Up above, the open ceiling holds a large chandelier radiating soft light within. It’s a dreamy, transformative space providing an intimate and surreal refuge for contemplation, written wisdom and freedom of thought.
URL: https://spitfireworks.blogspot.com/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW03UAG
Daft Punk Bus Stop Poster at The Intersection X
by: Invisible Pink Unicorns
from: Moscow, Russia
year: 2019
Nothing stays the same. We are changing all the time and the world around us is changing as well. In the place of last year intersection the new one appeared. It is the same, but absolutely different. Metamorphose took its toll.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/theintersectionart
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVyvUAG
The Intersection X, The Temple of Direction, and the Flybrary
Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown
The TVs
by: Steve LaBerge, Damon Koronakos and the TV Artists
from: Tacoma, WA; San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The TVs collectively resemble a highway billboard standing about 12 feet tall and 18 feet wide. 20 fiberglass TVs, each embellished by different artists with thoughts of what TV has meant to them.
During the day some people will get off their bikes to take a close look at what each of the 20 artists did to each of the TVs regarding the topic: TV. Participants will think about and relate to the messages put forth.
At night the display shows beautiful LED animations across all TVs as if the TVs together represent a single large screen. As a participant approaches the installation, the participant’s moving image silhouette will be super-imposed upon the animations and displayed across the wall.
#TheTVs
URL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/92288254@N04/
Contact: [email protected]
MMETAL
Name Unknown
HELL. Burning Man Mutant Vehicle fuel infrastructure.
Name unknown
Name Unknown
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
MDCCLXXVI Mutant Vehicle
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Dust Devil
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
BYTE
by: Jason Blanda
from: Guttenberg, NJ
year: 2019
B.Ÿ.T.E. (Burners for Ÿntelligent Technology Emancipation) consists of two monolithic, anthropomorphic microchips representing the very first sentient robots to be freed from slavery, Chip and Terra.
Chip and Terra were first set free to play on the dusty dance floor of deep playa at Black Rock City in 2018. Their virgin year home was one of exploration as they adapted to their newly found liberation.
This year, they hope to enter the imago stage of their evolution and return home to embrace the magical whimsy, radical self expression and symbiotic love as they emerge from their chrysalis and blossom into the colorful, loveable creatures they were always meant to embody. They hope to fully complete their Metamorphoses.
URL: https://www.cleaveranimated.com/byte-art-installation
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AY6XUAW
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance
by: tyson ayers and Resonant Arts
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2019
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance is a sanctuary dedicated to letting participants experience the phenomena of sympathetic resonance. All the walls of this epic structure are made of piano harps, surrounding the participant with 20,000 musical strings that echo back every sound they make. All the strings are tuned to pentatonic scales based on the Schumann Resonance, the earth’s fundamental frequency, so that anything played on the strings sounds musical. Five intimate, pentagonal chambers let participants deeply immerse themselves in the experience, while the open-air center space allows for larger gatherings. A 39′ tower rises up from the center’s intricately designed dias while detailed artworks adorn the space.
URL: http://www.soundcave.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVn4UAG
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance
by: tyson ayers and Resonant Arts
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2019
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance is a sanctuary dedicated to letting participants experience the phenomena of sympathetic resonance. All the walls of this epic structure are made of piano harps, surrounding the participant with 20,000 musical strings that echo back every sound they make. All the strings are tuned to pentatonic scales based on the Schumann Resonance, the earth’s fundamental frequency, so that anything played on the strings sounds musical. Five intimate, pentagonal chambers let participants deeply immerse themselves in the experience, while the open-air center space allows for larger gatherings. A 39′ tower rises up from the center’s intricately designed dias while detailed artworks adorn the space.
URL: http://www.soundcave.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVn4UAG
elevation
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXPsUAO
The Folly in the dust
Love Her But Leave Her Wild – Atticus
love, earth
by: The love, earth writer collective
from: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
year: 2019
The largest love letter movement ever conceived. The purpose: to inspire a clean climate future by spreading simple commitments to our planet. The art is intended to mobilize citizens to use the power of sending and receiving letters of love from Earth to change, contribute and commit to an environment that we can all be proud of.
The installation will be large enough to be captured from space, and thus our imaginations. In year one, a sky-facing comma will emerge and form a love letter altar. Within the wood structure, a writing area would support a hanging collection of completed letters, growing organically, drawing on attendees to contribute to a siren call from Earth, distributed around the world after the event by the artists.
URL: http://love.lettersfromearth.org/installation
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T96KUAS
Burners and Dust
love, earth
by: The love, earth writer collective
from: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
year: 2019
The largest love letter movement ever conceived. The purpose: to inspire a clean climate future by spreading simple commitments to our planet. The art is intended to mobilize citizens to use the power of sending and receiving letters of love from Earth to change, contribute and commit to an environment that we can all be proud of.
The installation will be large enough to be captured from space, and thus our imaginations. In year one, a sky-facing comma will emerge and form a love letter altar. Within the wood structure, a writing area would support a hanging collection of completed letters, growing organically, drawing on attendees to contribute to a siren call from Earth, distributed around the world after the event by the artists.
URL: http://love.lettersfromearth.org/installation
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T96KUAS
elevation
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXPsUAO
The Folly in the dust
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Maxa Xaman
The Temple of Direction in the dust
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
corpus
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
corpus
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Corpus
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Corpus
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Corpus
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Corpus
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Island of Lost Buoys
by: Lillian Heyward and The Island of Lost Buoys, a Create Change Project
from: Bluffton, SC
year: 2019
On the playa is an Island, a wooden tree dominates the center made of recycled pallets, crates and drift wood. Leaves of sculpted plastic bottles rustle in the wind. Strung from a branch is a hammock made of fishing net attached to a ocean buoy marooned on the beach. Hanging from the branches are sea buoys and balls providing a place to write names or leave a message to those who will come after.
Hanging from branches are bamboo wind chimes that softly clatter in the breeze. It is an island, a refuge, a place of calm and childhood in the stormy seas of life. It appears out of the playa as a mirage, the fantasy playground of youth. Discarded materials transform into an oasis, as our adult lives transform back to childhood. Bangarang!
URL: http://www.createchangeproject.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AVsTUAW
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
The Man Base
SACRA
by: Kirsten Berg
from: Berkeley, CA/Bali, Indonesia
year: 2019
Sacra is a totemic gateway, symbolizing a pivotal point between infinite and finite. The sacrum (= ‘holy bone’) is the first gateway through which we metamorphize from space to substance, into the wordly realm. It is also the last bone that disintegrates, holding ritual significance in ancient cultures, as a reminder of the past and future passage that we all share. Sacra’s focal point is a ‘sacral object’, embedded with convex mirrors reflecting our shared cellular origins; a bowed gate like a funnel for source into form; a silhouette echoing Japanese torii gates, which traditionally indicate a passage between the profane/worldly plane to the sacred. “Sacra” mirrors that journey, literally and poetically, in reverse and also ‘in between’.
URL: https://www.kirstenberg.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001TAJBUA4
The Man in the dust
It was a pleasure to chat with you Blade. Congratulations!
Interesting security tactic. Big (plastic) chains on your bike to make them appear to be locked up.
Every time I see my hommie out there he plays me a jam on his ocarina. It’s such a treat.
Name unknown
Great to meet you. Hope that 4k footage turned out!
Sky MOOP. ugh. We can do better. LNT includes the sky.
Great to meet you.
Nice usage of those old recycled electric scooters.
Great to meet you.
BRN 11
Beautiful and happy family.
zOMG! It’s my little friend again!
Spending a little time with my new friend Jamen was one of the highlights of my burn. Jamen is a true gentleman and an outstanding photographer. Thank you for the playa gift. It is one of the best ever! You can see Jamen’s work here: http://www.jamenpercy.com His spectacular photos from this year are here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmGX6GHu
Make Art
Lovely Burner
Wonderful colors on the side of a mutant vehicle name unknown.
So great to see you again! (Sorry I couldn’t make a better photo at the time but you look great!)
This was a wonderful morning because we had what felt like two sunrises.
Just married
Just married
Lovely burners
Sunrise at Point 3
Sunrise at Point 3
After 8 years of Burning I finally managed to catch the legendary Tycho performing one of his incredible sunrise sets. You can listen the set here: https://soundcloud.com/tycho/inversion-burning-man-sunrise-set-2019
Sunday Sunrise
After 8 years of Burning I finally managed to catch the legendary Tycho performing one of his incredible sunrise sets. You can listen the set here: https://soundcloud.com/tycho/inversion-burning-man-sunrise-set-2019
After 8 years of Burning I finally managed to catch the legendary Tycho performing one of this incredible sunrise sets. You can listen the set here: https://soundcloud.com/tycho/inversion-burning-man-sunrise-set-2019
Hani’s Deep Playa Tax Refueling at Awful’s Gas & Snack
by: Matthew Gerring & Crank Factory
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
Awful’s Gas & Snack: Your Gateway to the Big Wild! See one of the few remaining gasoline stations, painstakingly preserved since the mid-21st century. Travel back to a time when hardy men roamed the “open road” seeking fortune & freedom. Wilderness passes & provisions available. NO GAS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE DON’T ASK.
URL: http://awfulsgas.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVwVUAW
elevation
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXPsUAO
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Man Base
Henry Chang’s Flux Capacitor Mutant vehicle and I.L.Y
by: Dan Mountain
from: Portola Valley, CA
year: 2019
A 27 foot forearm and hand, fabricated from engineered steel, recycled and repurposed scrap metal meant to engage participants in various visual, physical, and emotional ways. Housing an internal armature of chains, gears, sprockets, and springs, the involvement of participants allows the fingers and parts of the hand to bring the sculpture to its full realization.
The intention of ILY is to encourage communication, collaboration, and eagerness to work together.
Contact: [email protected]
Playa Penthouse
Name Unknown
Name Unknown
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Folly in the dust
Good times
Mutant Vehicle name unknown
Fragments, 2019
by: Marc Ippon de Ronda
from: Paris, France
year: 2019
“Fragments” by French artist Marc Ippon de Ronda has been designed for Burning Man 2019. Where the artist turns an old Black Rock Desert legend into reality.
The installation plays with the illusion of appearances and our ever-changing perception of self and surroundings, a recurring theme in de Ronda’s work. During the day Burners see their reflections evolve inside the fragmented mirrors as they move through the sand winds and find shelter in its corners and covers. At sunrise and sunset the installation invites for meditation. Burners ascend and descend the central staircase experiencing a golden hue of warmth from the sun. At night, “Fragments” shifts again into abstract LED surfaces creating a magical apparition in the desert darkness.
URL: https://fragmentsart.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW2JUAW
Transmutation
by: Arturo Gonzalez
from: Saltillo, Coahuila Mexico
year: 2019
Is extinction forever? This work seeks to generate a reflection on the increasingly possible cloning of extinct species. Since the origin of life, evolution has never returned to a vanished species. However, human science is about to break this rule. Is it ethical and moral to play gods? Through scientific reproductions of a neanderthal and a saber-toothed tiger that emerge from the earth (extinction) to cross a DNA helix and reach our present with a paleo-reconstruction where the visitor can interact and then go through a series of circles that forms the geometry of life arrive at a mythical alebrije that represents the transmutation of our matter.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&aq=Transmutation#a2I0V000001AVujUAG
Transmutation
by: Arturo Gonzalez
from: Saltillo, Coahuila Mexico
year: 2019
Is extinction forever? This work seeks to generate a reflection on the increasingly possible cloning of extinct species. Since the origin of life, evolution has never returned to a vanished species. However, human science is about to break this rule. Is it ethical and moral to play gods? Through scientific reproductions of a neanderthal and a saber-toothed tiger that emerge from the earth (extinction) to cross a DNA helix and reach our present with a paleo-reconstruction where the visitor can interact and then go through a series of circles that forms the geometry of life arrive at a mythical alebrije that represents the transmutation of our matter.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&aq=Transmutation#a2I0V000001AVujUAG
Transmutation
by: Arturo Gonzalez
from: Saltillo, Coahuila Mexico
year: 2019
Is extinction forever? This work seeks to generate a reflection on the increasingly possible cloning of extinct species. Since the origin of life, evolution has never returned to a vanished species. However, human science is about to break this rule. Is it ethical and moral to play gods? Through scientific reproductions of a neanderthal and a saber-toothed tiger that emerge from the earth (extinction) to cross a DNA helix and reach our present with a paleo-reconstruction where the visitor can interact and then go through a series of circles that forms the geometry of life arrive at a mythical alebrije that represents the transmutation of our matter.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&aq=Transmutation#a2I0V000001AVujUAG
Transmutation
by: Arturo Gonzalez
from: Saltillo, Coahuila Mexico
year: 2019
Is extinction forever? This work seeks to generate a reflection on the increasingly possible cloning of extinct species. Since the origin of life, evolution has never returned to a vanished species. However, human science is about to break this rule. Is it ethical and moral to play gods? Through scientific reproductions of a neanderthal and a saber-toothed tiger that emerge from the earth (extinction) to cross a DNA helix and reach our present with a paleo-reconstruction where the visitor can interact and then go through a series of circles that forms the geometry of life arrive at a mythical alebrije that represents the transmutation of our matter.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&aq=Transmutation#a2I0V000001AVujUAG
Shewolf
by: Chris Mack
from: Monterey, CA
year: 2019
The Shewolf is nature, constantly giving and directing our growth for thousands of years. Only recently has man conquered nature by what we think is a smart and clever manipulation for our benefit. “What nature can do, man can do better.”
Or can we? Has man depleted our mother or is she still willing to nurture us? Come out and drink from the elixir from nature’s breasts. Lay in her shadow, protected from harm.
Shewolf now has a partner wolf. Can he keep up? Can we keep up?
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9rfUAC
Playa at dusk
Mutant Vehicle (name unknown) and the Head Maze
Head Maze
by: Matthew Schultz and The Pier
from: Reno, NV
year: 2019
The Head Maze is a purposeful juxtapositions of two forms, a peaceful meditative reflection and our inevitable struggle with the nature of cognition; a monolithic mind caught in time between multiple selves. The head towers four stories over the playa floor, encased in mulberry paper and epoxy modeled after the work of Yoshio Ikezaki. The head rests in repose while its left hand claws at its mind fighting to reveal a crystalline stained glass structure akin to the “Space Whale” inside.
A series of hidden doors in the mouth, wrists and head open into a four story, 18 room maze. Each modular room creates a unique space dedicated to the nature of our minds, our struggles with being and the weird and fanciful process of dreaming.
URL: http://www.headmaze.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AVtbUAG
Wing Portal
by: Suki Somersall, Sven Eberwein, John Briscella, Maria Dubrovskaya, Alexander Green, Stephan Rodan, Josh McFarland, Glenn Fischer, Vincent Lauenstein
from: California
year: 2019
Built as a gift for California, a sculpture of transcendence made from the ruins of the 2018 fires. This past fall our community here in California was hit by the devastating fires that destroyed hundreds of homes and affected so many lives. These events have deeply changed us.
As a visual metaphor to transcendence and metamorphosis, our team is building a sculpture out of the ruins from the fire and is bringing it to another place of deep personal transformation: Burning Man. And after the Burn, the sculpture will be publicly installed in California.
The wings span 60 feet across, and are built out of recycled metal, iridescent dichroic acrylic panels and thousands of LED lights.
URL: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wing-portal-debuting-at-burning-man-2019#/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXjOUAW
Name unknown
Name Unknown
Tulpa Ashrams
by: One Art Museum
from: Peking, China
year: 2019
TULPA ASHRAMS is a tower group represents the fusion of senses. Tulpa is a concept in mysticism and the paranormal of a being or object which is created through spiritual or mental powers. It was adapted by 20th century theosophists from Tibetan: སྤྲུལ་པ་ which means “emanation” or “manifestation”.
Emerging from a study into the geometry of Chinese art and architecture, the tower group references motifs and elements traditionally found in Tibetan Buddhism, chanting music, sacred places, and daily objects though in itself.
Tulpa Ashrams has ties to no religion. It transcends time and space, memories and culture.They are chaotic eons of the past and a distant future of the unknown.
URL: http://bit.ly/2pFBH0Q
Contact: [email protected]
Burning Man Is Stupid.
If memory serves this is called The Oasis. Random passerby burners get pampered and fanned. You get misted and they hand feed you fruit in the chair while you recline. Some people were trying to do one of those colorful smokebomb photoshoots upwind from us. The smoke was so thick we could barely breath. I went over and politely asked them if they could take their photoshoot elsewhere. I also asked them to think about whether or not smokebombs are MOOP…
Nice to meet you!
SACRED GROUNDS by Michael Benisty
MIRROR POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL
21 X 14.5 X 10 FT
6.5 X 4.5 X 3 M
2019
https://www.michaelbenisty.com
SACRED GROUNDS by Michael Benisty
MIRROR POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL
21 X 14.5 X 10 FT
6.5 X 4.5 X 3 M
2019
https://www.michaelbenisty.com
IN CASE OF EMERGENCY USE STAIRS
Lingerie 3rd floor
Name Unknown
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance
by: tyson ayers and Resonant Arts
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2019
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance is a sanctuary dedicated to letting participants experience the phenomena of sympathetic resonance. All the walls of this epic structure are made of piano harps, surrounding the participant with 20,000 musical strings that echo back every sound they make. All the strings are tuned to pentatonic scales based on the Schumann Resonance, the earth’s fundamental frequency, so that anything played on the strings sounds musical. Five intimate, pentagonal chambers let participants deeply immerse themselves in the experience, while the open-air center space allows for larger gatherings. A 39′ tower rises up from the center’s intricately designed dias while detailed artworks adorn the space.
URL: http://www.soundcave.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVn4UAG
Expansion Pavilion
by: Shrine
from: Pasadena, CA
year: 2019
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001T9HSUA0
Expansion Pavilion
by: Shrine
from: Pasadena, CA
year: 2019
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001T9HSUA0
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
elevation
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXPsUAO
Name Unknown
Some of my friends discussing their various creative endeavors. Not sure who that interloper is in the back. Just kidding. I freakin love you Mr. Wonderful!
Black Rock City
Black Rock City
Black Rock City
I took a rest sitting up here. I love pieces with chairs…
The Bard’s Branch
by: Pam Ward
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
I would like to bring my childhood joy of books and climbing trees to the playa by building a tree library. A comfy armchair will be in the nest at the top for folks to read in, shaded with branches. It will look like an old organic library with bookshelves, staircases and books stacked all over it. Recessed shelves will be hidden in the trunk and books will have light up letters, inspiring words and pop-up images inside. There is a playful childlike energy to the piece. The Bard’s Branch will bring joy & stir the imagination.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/culture/history/brc-history/event-archives/2019-event-archive/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVqXUAW
(Thanks to Annelise for the caption update here)
These pink cowgirls were SUPER fun.
BLM Ranger
This guy was about the healthiest looking person I’ve ever seen. So I struck up a conversation with him about health. I’ve got a major dadbod going on these days and he was a doctor. So we had a lovely little chat.
Shout out to the people who maintain their fitness out there. I can’t even stay fit in the default world so it always impresses me when I see folks staying active out there.
Out Of Band III mutant vehicle.
One of my favorite moments from the burn was when this little one came to me and reached out her hand. She was just learning to walk and was curious about my camera. She grabbed my hand and played with all the buttons on my camera! It was so such a sweet little moment.
Mayan Warrior
Some of the people who make Burning Man so great.
So great to meet you and thanks for being such a great person to photograph!
Love this Burner’s whole vibe. He was so nice.
Name Unknown
Drinking from the gas pump at Awful’s Gas & Snack
by: Matthew Gerring & Crank Factory
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
Awful’s Gas & Snack: Your Gateway to the Big Wild! See one of the few remaining gasoline stations, painstakingly preserved since the mid-21st century. Travel back to a time when hardy men roamed the “open road” seeking fortune & freedom. Wilderness passes & provisions available. NO GAS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE DON’T ASK.
URL: http://awfulsgas.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVwVUAW
Elevation at sunrise
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Contact: [email protected]
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance
by: tyson ayers and Resonant Arts
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2019
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance is a sanctuary dedicated to letting participants experience the phenomena of sympathetic resonance. All the walls of this epic structure are made of piano harps, surrounding the participant with 20,000 musical strings that echo back every sound they make. All the strings are tuned to pentatonic scales based on the Schumann Resonance, the earth’s fundamental frequency, so that anything played on the strings sounds musical. Five intimate, pentagonal chambers let participants deeply immerse themselves in the experience, while the open-air center space allows for larger gatherings. A 39′ tower rises up from the center’s intricately designed dias while detailed artworks adorn the space.
URL: http://www.soundcave.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVn4UAG
elevation
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXPsUAO
Temple of Brad Pitt
by: Geodesic Temple
from: Upstate NY
year: 2019
The Temple of Brad Pitt channels the famous Hollywood actor. It captures Brad Pitt’s aura, extracts the essence of his being through data gathering and redisplays it as a data portrait and performative sculpture enabling Burning Man 2019 participants who enter a special apparatus to briefly experience what it is to be him.
URL: http://tobrit.geodesictemple.com/
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9nYUAS
Expansion Pavilion
by: Shrine
from: Pasadena, CA
year: 2019
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001T9HSUA0
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Bee Dance
by: Andrea Greenlees, Andy Tibbetts, and Josh Haywood
from: London, UK & Reno, NV
year: 2019
Bee Dance is a whimsical and inviting art installation in the form of two gigantic Dancing Bees, their legs entwined and their heads touching in a bee kiss. It celebrates one of the most fascinating examples of communication in the natural world — when forager bees return from their exploratory flights and perform the Bee Dance for the other bees, carrying out specific routines in order to communicate the distance and direction of pollen, nectar and water from the hive.
Bee Dance is a strong climbable structure that Burners can clamber over and cling to, just as pollen clings to a bee. The Bees are bronze in colour, but on their dancing feet they wear gleaming copper ballet shoes with copper ribbons. The Bees are transformed into dancers.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AVlmUAG
The Man Base before sunrise.
The Artery
Welcome Home
by: Joey Howell and Brian Dean of SALT MIND
from: Salt Lake City, UT
year: 2019
Burners call the playa home. Home not because of the location, but because of the people we share it with; friends, family, lovers, strangers. Welcome Home creates an absurdly normal setting by taking a space associated with default homes and bringing it to our true home. This fully decorated parlour in the sky invites wanderers to climb, explore, and enjoy the view.
URL: https://www.saltmindslc.com/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkeUAG
Welcome Home
by: Joey Howell and Brian Dean of SALT MIND
from: Salt Lake City, UT
year: 2019
Burners call the playa home. Home not because of the location, but because of the people we share it with; friends, family, lovers, strangers. Welcome Home creates an absurdly normal setting by taking a space associated with default homes and bringing it to our true home. This fully decorated parlour in the sky invites wanderers to climb, explore, and enjoy the view.
URL: https://www.saltmindslc.com/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkeUAG
Welcome Home
by: Joey Howell and Brian Dean of SALT MIND
from: Salt Lake City, UT
year: 2019
Burners call the playa home. Home not because of the location, but because of the people we share it with; friends, family, lovers, strangers. Welcome Home creates an absurdly normal setting by taking a space associated with default homes and bringing it to our true home. This fully decorated parlour in the sky invites wanderers to climb, explore, and enjoy the view.
URL: https://www.saltmindslc.com/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkeUAG
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
These folks stopped me and said hey can you take our picture. I was like hell yeah I can!
Lee Burridge at DISTRIKT
Lovely burners.
These ladies were very excited about breastfeeding.
Tzompantli
by: T. Booth Haley
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Tzompantli were skull racks that were built in front of temples in a number of Mesoamerican civilizations to demonstrate the power of the ruling elite and their gods. The sacrificial victims are thought to have been mostly captives of war.
Each victim was skinned and had a hole cut in the cranium by an expert using obsidian blades. Tzompantli is a Nahuatl word, the language of the Aztecs, and the largest one was in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. It was 60 by 30 meters, several meters tall, and contained an estimated 60,000 skulls.
This BRC tzompantli is a replica of the ancient ones. The historical tzompantli stood outside the oldest temples of the Americas and here the skull rack stands outside the newest temple of the Americas.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXAxUAO
Playa hug.
Love this one.
These guys were so nice.
These guys were so nice.
These guys were so nice.
Expansion Pavilion
by: Shrine
from: Pasadena, CA
year: 2019
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001T9HSUA0
Name Unknown
Transmutation
by: Arturo Gonzalez
from: Saltillo, Coahuila Mexico
year: 2019
Is extinction forever? This work seeks to generate a reflection on the increasingly possible cloning of extinct species. Since the origin of life, evolution has never returned to a vanished species. However, human science is about to break this rule. Is it ethical and moral to play gods? Through scientific reproductions of a neanderthal and a saber-toothed tiger that emerge from the earth (extinction) to cross a DNA helix and reach our present with a paleo-reconstruction where the visitor can interact and then go through a series of circles that forms the geometry of life arrive at a mythical alebrije that represents the transmutation of our matter.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVujUAG
Transmutation
by: Arturo Gonzalez
from: Saltillo, Coahuila Mexico
year: 2019
Is extinction forever? This work seeks to generate a reflection on the increasingly possible cloning of extinct species. Since the origin of life, evolution has never returned to a vanished species. However, human science is about to break this rule. Is it ethical and moral to play gods? Through scientific reproductions of a neanderthal and a saber-toothed tiger that emerge from the earth (extinction) to cross a DNA helix and reach our present with a paleo-reconstruction where the visitor can interact and then go through a series of circles that forms the geometry of life arrive at a mythical alebrije that represents the transmutation of our matter.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVujUAG
Lovely Burners
Lovely Burners
Nice to see you Takeshi!
Name Unknown
Performance at The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Performance at The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Performance at The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Performance at The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Performance at The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Performance at The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Performance at the Folly
Name unknown
It was a pleasure to meet you.
747
doin it right. 1800 go pudgey.
Name Unknown
Name Unknown
Name Unknown
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction and the Larry Memorial
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Wonderful Burner
Tatanka
by: Peter Hazel
from: Reno, NV
year: 2019
Tatanka is an Indian word for buffalo. For the Northern Plains people Tatanka meant life. Ceremonies and daily life revolved around sacred reverences to Tatanka. They relied upon the bison for food, clothing, housing, tools, just to name a few. This piece is a 9′ tall mosaic buffalo created in Reno, NV by large scale sculpture artist Peter Hazel. The piece is made up of thousands of handmade tiles of various colors, textures, and sizes.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9wBUAS
Wonderful Burner
Name unknown
Lovely burner
Couple of classy gentlemen and a cool bike.
Lovely burner
BROKEN BUT TOGETHER by Michael Benisty
MIRROR POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL
21 X 12 X 10 FT
6.5 X 3.6 X 3 M
2019
https://www.michaelbenisty.com
BROKEN BUT TOGETHER by Michael Benisty
MIRROR POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL
21 X 12 X 10 FT
6.5 X 3.6 X 3 M
2019
https://www.michaelbenisty.com
Lovely burner
Connections
by: Oxana Belka
from: Chicago, IL
year: 2019
We will bring ten mannequins. Building on the foundation of the human form, each mannequin will be uniquely painted and designed and will represent the spectrum of human emotions.
As a whole, the art piece will represent the human experience. We live in a symbiotic relationship where we influence and affect change in one another. Through creativity, expression, and vulnerability, we are able to transform those around us, and they in turn transform us.
At night, the mannequins will also be illuminated. The illumination will breathe life and further animate these forms. To the observer, the mannequins will become representative of not only the burning man experience but also a transformative journey, fueled by our bonds.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001TABCUA4
(thanks to Reddit user petrograd for the caption update)
Name unknown (remote controlled couch thing)
Awful’s Gas & Snack
by: Matthew Gerring & Crank Factory
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
Awful’s Gas & Snack: Your Gateway to the Big Wild! See one of the few remaining gasoline stations, painstakingly preserved since the mid-21st century. Travel back to a time when hardy men roamed the “open road” seeking fortune & freedom. Wilderness passes & provisions available. NO GAS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE DON’T ASK.
URL: http://awfulsgas.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVwVUAW
Lovely burner
Deep playa sunrise
Nice contact lenses. This fellow mentioned they actually worked as lenses!
Deep playa sunrise
Lovely burner
Nice flamethrower! Name unknown
Mayan Warrior
Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown
Robot Heart, Broken But Together, and a Polar Bear (Bear name unknown)
Maxa Xaman Mutant Vehicle
Positive Reactor
by: Assaf Allouche
from: El Sitio de Playa Venao, Panama Republic
year: 2019
The Reactor is a large complexed geometric structure made of endless triangles. From the ground it looks like a crown or a pomograne, but from its center it forms the sacred geometrical shape of the Merkaba.
Its purpose is to remind us that acts of kindness reward the giver, the receiver and the witness of the good acts, with a boost of oxytocin, producing good feeling to all and taking nothing in return. Therefore creating energy — a Reactor!
URL: https://www.thereactorproject.com
Contact: [email protected]
(Thanks for Reddit user jlev for the caption update here)
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance
by: tyson ayers and Resonant Arts
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2019
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance is a sanctuary dedicated to letting participants experience the phenomena of sympathetic resonance. All the walls of this epic structure are made of piano harps, surrounding the participant with 20,000 musical strings that echo back every sound they make. All the strings are tuned to pentatonic scales based on the Schumann Resonance, the earth’s fundamental frequency, so that anything played on the strings sounds musical. Five intimate, pentagonal chambers let participants deeply immerse themselves in the experience, while the open-air center space allows for larger gatherings. A 39′ tower rises up from the center’s intricately designed dias while detailed artworks adorn the space.
URL: http://www.soundcave.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVn4UAG
The Larry Memorial
by: Dana Albany, Andrew Johnstone, David Best, Flash Hopkins
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
A stepped pyramid crowned with a palanquin and large spire, flanked on each corner by lamplighter spires.
It serves as a physical representation of Larry’s mind palace and contains some of Larry’s books and mementos.
Contact: [email protected]
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Taking Flight
by: Nicki Adani
from: Mill Valley, CA
year: 2019
Nicki Adani’s “Taking Flight” emboldens visitors to be who they truly are, inspiring them to leave behind what is holding them back. A 10-foot tall feminine bird-like figure, welded from raw steel rods and tubes, her wings spread wide, takes flight from her perch upon a 10-foot tall spoked wheel, representing the circle of life. Viewers interact by making colorful ropes and weaving them into the wheel as a metaphor of releasing one’s past. Experiences already lived through can’t be erased, but they can speak their truths, and be let go. In the process, individuals can connect to their inner strength allowing them to spread their wings to fly free.
URL: http://time2flyart.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW74UAG
The Man Base
Fireworks by DaveX and The Monumental Mammoth
by: Girl Scout Gold Award Recipient Tahoe Mack, Mentor and Protector of Tule Springs Representative Sherri Grotheer, and artists Luis Varela-Rico and Dana Albany
from: Las Vegas, NV
year: 2019
The Monumental Mammoth project will depict a life-sized steel Colombian mammoth skeleton collaged with metal found objects to tell the story of Tule Spring National Monument’s past, present, and future. The sheer size and struggle of the mammoth’s stance is a representation of the universal call to protect what the earth has given humanity. As a community, we are called together to protect the fossils of our past and the education of our future. Dana Albany and Luis Varela-Rico are pulling together the sleek elements of the interior steel structure and the intricate weavings to represents the distinctive community that is Las Vegas.It also tells the story of a rising feminine power, and shows all women of any age that anything is possible!
URL: https://tulemammothproject.wordpress.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVtMUAW
Elephant Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown
Elections Fucking Matter (artist name unknown)
Mutant vehicle driver
I love meeting friendly burners who have nothing but good vibes like these dudes.
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Stone 27
by: Benjamin Langholz
from: California & Berlin, Germany
year: 2019
Confront nature and yourself as you journey along 27 stones floating above the Playa. Step into an alternate reality where destructive energy has been harmonized with nature to create moments of physical and mental elevation. Stone 27 finds great inspiration in simplicity, minimalism, and math to create clearness and consciousness in a material world, inviting you to a moment of complete presence.
URL: https://stonetwentyseven.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVo2UAG
Hundroid Mutant Vehicle at Night
J, bring yur dad back and keep going with the real videos my man! Nice to see you again T.
Andromeda Reimagined
by: Playa Muses
from: Bay Area, CA
year: 2019
In myth, Andromeda earned the god’s respect by her earthly deeds and was rewarded with celestial immortality as a constellation. We reimagine the Andromeda Myth, evolving it from a classic male hero focus to a strong feminine and collaborative paradigm.
This art piece brings Andromeda back to earth, and asks, should we aspire to immortality? Can our fleeting actions ultimately stack up to monumental outcomes?
The piece, built by first-time playa artists, consists of a 26 ft spire, with ornate star-patterned walls. It shines like a Moroccan lantern at night, and beckons viewers to rest in a plush interior, seek shade, duck a windstorm. It incubates change. People come to reflect on their course, and to feel inspired to set their sights higher.
URL: http://www.projectandromeda.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9r6UAC
The Phoenix and The Butterfly: A story of metamorphosis
by: swig miller
from: Topanga, CA
year: 2019
Imagine walking across the playa, looking up to see a huge flaming Phoenix flying high in the night sky facing its partner, a beautiful glowing Butterfly. Twenty-five-foot pyramids made of spheres connect you to them and a staircase invites you to share their view.
Imagine returning the next day to find these pyramids filled with interactive elements like places to connect, find shade, swing, climb, and view the playa.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AX4uUAG
Bon voyage!
I’m always out shooting alone so it’s really nice when I run into friends. In this instance some friends were going on a little cruise!
Hani’s Deep Playa Taxi at The Folly
This fellow built himself a remote controlled fridge.
Robot Wedding at The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Robot Wedding at The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Robot Wedding at The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Garage Mahal Mutant Vehicle from the Bay Area (Thanks to Phil for the caption update)
The gentlemem was standing there when someone walked up and appended the yellow “cutie” badge on him. Cuteness confirmed!
Nice to meet you Benjamin and thanks for the 27 Stones! It scared me!
Airfield for walking in the clouds
by: Weld Queen
from: Moscow, Russia
year: 2019
“Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a model of a fantasy airfield with ten dream-liners “Armchairs for walking in the clouds.”
The project is a large-scale interactive installation where people will be sitting and swinging in the “Armchairs for walking in the clouds” where they will be able to “break away” from the ground and be closer to their dreams. “Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a place where people can go on their own journey into the depths of their inner space.
URL: http://weldqueen.com/project/airfield-for-walking-in-the-clouds/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001TAiBUAW
Airfield for walking in the clouds
by: Weld Queen
from: Moscow, Russia
year: 2019
“Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a model of a fantasy airfield with ten dream-liners “Armchairs for walking in the clouds.”
The project is a large-scale interactive installation where people will be sitting and swinging in the “Armchairs for walking in the clouds” where they will be able to “break away” from the ground and be closer to their dreams. “Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a place where people can go on their own journey into the depths of their inner space.
URL: http://weldqueen.com/project/airfield-for-walking-in-the-clouds/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001TAiBUAW
Airfield for walking in the clouds
by: Weld Queen
from: Moscow, Russia
year: 2019
“Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a model of a fantasy airfield with ten dream-liners “Armchairs for walking in the clouds.”
The project is a large-scale interactive installation where people will be sitting and swinging in the “Armchairs for walking in the clouds” where they will be able to “break away” from the ground and be closer to their dreams. “Airfield for walking in the clouds” is a place where people can go on their own journey into the depths of their inner space.
URL: http://weldqueen.com/project/airfield-for-walking-in-the-clouds/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001TAiBUAW
Great to meet you and thank you for our little chat!
Great to meet you and thank you for our little chat!
Good times. Mutant vehicle name unknown.
Jay doing a fun pose for me.
The Dollhouse
by: House of Strange Rituals
from: Eugene, OR
year: 2019
The Dollhouse is a life-size dollhouse replica, modeled after a turn of the century Victorian home, where participants are encouraged to discover haunted elements by interacting with objects that trigger lights and sound. The back side of the home has the illusion of being completely exposed to open playa, but is enclosed with clear acrylic paneling. This allows citizens of Black Rock City to see the illuminated structure, and the people inside, from afar. Each room has a unique interactive sound installation, which plays off the concept of a seance gone wrong. The Dollhouse transports participants to an ethereal world on playa, captivating and enticing all to play and discover more secrets within.
URL: https://www.houseofstrangerituals.com/the-dollhouse
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVxYUAW
Friendly burner on the Skywhale: The Not ShyWhale crew.
Skywhale: The Not ShyWhale and The Temple
by: Blake Marcus, Chris Welch, Seven
from: Amherst, MA
year: 2019
The SkyWhale is a life sized flying technicolor whale and she will kindle the flames of imagination and wonder within all who see, touch, and listen to the piece as she arrives into the dusty desert. She strives to open the possibility of using the sky as a 3-dimensional medium for art. In nature, water creatures live in a place physically below that of terrestrial humans, and they have been downstream of many harmful human activities. SkyWhale aims to show that there can be progress and she can help heal and transform the human relationship with Nature. In recognition of the metamorphosis theme, the SkyWhale will embody the transformation of a sea creature to dream that takes to the air.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/skywhaleproject/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW6pUAG
Friendly burner. We traded cameras for a while and played around. It was fun.
Chapel Perilous
by: Rob Leifheit & the Enchanted Booty Forest
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
Only two walls of the ruins of Chapel Perilous still stand, sunken heavily into the ground over time. From the Black Rock City, the chapel appears dark and mysterious, but from inside, four stained glass windows and a large rosette illuminate the piece. Custom light patterns and ambient sounds engage visitors to learn more about the eight circuits of consciousness and the trappings of Chapel Perilous — a state one enters when facing truth that disagrees with their notion of reality. Once you enter, will you ever leave Chapel Perilous?
URL: http://enterchapelperilo.us
https://burningman.org/culture/history/brc-history/event-archives/2019-event-archive/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW7JUAW
(Thanks to Reddit user sirduke63 for the caption update here.)
Chapel Perilous
by: Rob Leifheit & the Enchanted Booty Forest
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
Only two walls of the ruins of Chapel Perilous still stand, sunken heavily into the ground over time. From the Black Rock City, the chapel appears dark and mysterious, but from inside, four stained glass windows and a large rosette illuminate the piece. Custom light patterns and ambient sounds engage visitors to learn more about the eight circuits of consciousness and the trappings of Chapel Perilous — a state one enters when facing truth that disagrees with their notion of reality. Once you enter, will you ever leave Chapel Perilous?
URL: http://enterchapelperilo.us
https://burningman.org/culture/history/brc-history/event-archives/2019-event-archive/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW7JUAW
(Thanks to Reddit user sirduke63 for the caption update here.)
Chapel Perilous
by: Rob Leifheit & the Enchanted Booty Forest
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
Only two walls of the ruins of Chapel Perilous still stand, sunken heavily into the ground over time. From the Black Rock City, the chapel appears dark and mysterious, but from inside, four stained glass windows and a large rosette illuminate the piece. Custom light patterns and ambient sounds engage visitors to learn more about the eight circuits of consciousness and the trappings of Chapel Perilous — a state one enters when facing truth that disagrees with their notion of reality. Once you enter, will you ever leave Chapel Perilous?
URL: http://enterchapelperilo.us
https://burningman.org/culture/history/brc-history/event-archives/2019-event-archive/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW7JUAW
(Thanks to Reddit user sirduke63 for the caption update here.)
Chapel Perilous
by: Rob Leifheit & the Enchanted Booty Forest
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
Only two walls of the ruins of Chapel Perilous still stand, sunken heavily into the ground over time. From the Black Rock City, the chapel appears dark and mysterious, but from inside, four stained glass windows and a large rosette illuminate the piece. Custom light patterns and ambient sounds engage visitors to learn more about the eight circuits of consciousness and the trappings of Chapel Perilous — a state one enters when facing truth that disagrees with their notion of reality. Once you enter, will you ever leave Chapel Perilous?
URL: http://enterchapelperilo.us
https://burningman.org/culture/history/brc-history/event-archives/2019-event-archive/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW7JUAW
(Thanks to Reddit user sirduke63 for the caption update here.)
Chapel Perilous
by: Rob Leifheit & the Enchanted Booty Forest
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
Only two walls of the ruins of Chapel Perilous still stand, sunken heavily into the ground over time. From the Black Rock City, the chapel appears dark and mysterious, but from inside, four stained glass windows and a large rosette illuminate the piece. Custom light patterns and ambient sounds engage visitors to learn more about the eight circuits of consciousness and the trappings of Chapel Perilous — a state one enters when facing truth that disagrees with their notion of reality. Once you enter, will you ever leave Chapel Perilous?
URL: http://enterchapelperilo.us
https://burningman.org/culture/history/brc-history/event-archives/2019-event-archive/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW7JUAW
(Thanks to Reddit user sirduke63 for the caption update here.)
Chapel Perilous
by: Rob Leifheit & the Enchanted Booty Forest
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
Only two walls of the ruins of Chapel Perilous still stand, sunken heavily into the ground over time. From the Black Rock City, the chapel appears dark and mysterious, but from inside, four stained glass windows and a large rosette illuminate the piece. Custom light patterns and ambient sounds engage visitors to learn more about the eight circuits of consciousness and the trappings of Chapel Perilous — a state one enters when facing truth that disagrees with their notion of reality. Once you enter, will you ever leave Chapel Perilous?
URL: http://enterchapelperilo.us
https://burningman.org/culture/history/brc-history/event-archives/2019-event-archive/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW7JUAW
(Thanks to Reddit user sirduke63 for the caption update here.)
Chapel Perilous
by: Rob Leifheit & the Enchanted Booty Forest
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
Only two walls of the ruins of Chapel Perilous still stand, sunken heavily into the ground over time. From the Black Rock City, the chapel appears dark and mysterious, but from inside, four stained glass windows and a large rosette illuminate the piece. Custom light patterns and ambient sounds engage visitors to learn more about the eight circuits of consciousness and the trappings of Chapel Perilous — a state one enters when facing truth that disagrees with their notion of reality. Once you enter, will you ever leave Chapel Perilous?
URL: http://enterchapelperilo.us
https://burningman.org/culture/history/brc-history/event-archives/2019-event-archive/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW7JUAW
(Thanks to Reddit user sirduke63 for the caption update here.)
Taking Flight
by: Nicki Adani
from: Mill Valley, CA
year: 2019
Nicki Adani’s “Taking Flight” emboldens visitors to be who they truly are, inspiring them to leave behind what is holding them back. A 10-foot tall feminine bird-like figure, welded from raw steel rods and tubes, her wings spread wide, takes flight from her perch upon a 10-foot tall spoked wheel, representing the circle of life. Viewers interact by making colorful ropes and weaving them into the wheel as a metaphor of releasing one’s past. Experiences already lived through can’t be erased, but they can speak their truths, and be let go. In the process, individuals can connect to their inner strength allowing them to spread their wings to fly free.
URL: http://time2flyart.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW74UAG
The Flybrary
by: Christina Sporrong
from: Taos, NM
year: 2019
The Flybrary is an extraordinary library within an enormous human head, partially cut open at the top allowing a flock of illuminated birds to emerge. Within the head are several levels of catwalks to climb and nooks and crannies to sit in and enjoy the selection of books. The eyes and mouth are portholes to the outside world. Up above, the open ceiling holds a large chandelier radiating soft light within. It’s a dreamy, transformative space providing an intimate and surreal refuge for contemplation, written wisdom and freedom of thought.
URL: https://spitfireworks.blogspot.com/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW03UAG
The Word on The Street
by: Scott Froschauer
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
From a distance, one imagines that they are being told that the circular space defined by this piece is inaccessible. Eight signs appear to proclaim “Do Not Enter.” But on closer inspection, the message is much different.
URL: http://scottfroschauer.com/?cat=14
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9rzUAC
Golden Gate Bridge Mutant Vehicle and the Man
The Intersection X
by: Invisible Pink Unicorns
from: Moscow, Russia
year: 2019
Nothing stays the same. We are changing all the time and the world around us is changing as well. In the place of last year intersection the new one appeared. It is the same, but absolutely different. Metamorphose took its toll.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/theintersectionart
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVyvUAG
The Intersection X
by: Invisible Pink Unicorns
from: Moscow, Russia
year: 2019
Nothing stays the same. We are changing all the time and the world around us is changing as well. In the place of last year intersection the new one appeared. It is the same, but absolutely different. Metamorphose took its toll.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/theintersectionart
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVyvUAG
Getting a Tow
Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown with dusty beard.
Always fun to play with you Bonnie!
The Mansonian Institute
Mansonian Museum (apologies for the distorted pano)
Wonderful painting artist name unknown.
I was complaining about the pain in my arm and this lovely man tried to make me feel better. It was nice.
Well done on the rental logo here!
Black Rock City Views
Didn’t notice it at the time but look at this megayurt in the lower right.
Black Rock City Views
Panorama 3/3 from roughly 510 and D. Cannot remember the name of the camp for the life of me.
Panorama 2/3 from roughly 510 and D. Cannot remember the name of the camp for the life of me.
Panorama 1/3 from roughly 510 and D. Cannot remember the name of the camp for the life of me.
HEAT and beyond.
You can see the airport from here.
Black Rock City and Center Camp. (Please do a better job of covering or altering logos. Only because cloning them out takes forever.)
Name unknown.
Name Unknown
Name Unknown Build
Nice to see you again George! George is a great photographer and you can see some of his work here: https://www.georgepostphotography.com/
Some new friends. I was playing around with a super wide lens here so they look like giants. They’re on the Air Pusher crew. Love that thing. Nice to meet you.
Chapel of the Chimes
by: Infinity Gathered
from: Washington, D.C.
year: 2019
You happen upon this beautiful and curvaceous hand-cut building of wood and steel chimes. The love and care that went into each cut is visable. The Chapel of the Chimes awaits you.
The love poured into the structure makes it a perfect place to have a ceremony with loved ones. There is an arch inside and platform to stand. Share your vows, commitments, and devotion here.
You may also simply take shelter here from the hot sun and relax to the sound of the wind breezing through, giving the wind a different voice and experience. The chimes harmonize and sing you a song you’ve not yet heard.
Come and learn of the playa-adjacent origins of the structure! It has quite a story to share. Come early, it burns before the end of the event!
URL: http://www.infinitygathered.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXizUAG
(Thanks to reddit user sachin571 for the caption update)
Chapel of the Chimes
by: Infinity Gathered
from: Washington, D.C.
year: 2019
You happen upon this beautiful and curvaceous hand-cut building of wood and steel chimes. The love and care that went into each cut is visable. The Chapel of the Chimes awaits you.
The love poured into the structure makes it a perfect place to have a ceremony with loved ones. There is an arch inside and platform to stand. Share your vows, commitments, and devotion here.
You may also simply take shelter here from the hot sun and relax to the sound of the wind breezing through, giving the wind a different voice and experience. The chimes harmonize and sing you a song you’ve not yet heard.
Come and learn of the playa-adjacent origins of the structure! It has quite a story to share. Come early, it burns before the end of the event!
URL: http://www.infinitygathered.com
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXizUAG
(Thanks to reddit user sachin571 for the caption update)
Name Unknown
Platonic Two: Tesseract
by: gnArt – Prime & Kerri
from: Calgary, Canada
year: 2019
A shimmering cube of wonder. What will one see when one gazes upon it?
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9uKUAS
Name Unknown
Dang Gang Imperial Cruiser from Disorient (Thanks to Reddit user decktech for letting me know.)
Name Unknown
Name Unknown
Nice piece on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing!
Temple of Brad Pitt
by: Geodesic Temple
from: Upstate NY
year: 2019
The Temple of Brad Pitt channels the famous Hollywood actor. It captures Brad Pitt’s aura, extracts the essence of his being through data gathering and redisplays it as a data portrait and performative sculpture enabling Burning Man 2019 participants who enter a special apparatus to briefly experience what it is to be him.
URL: http://tobrit.geodesictemple.com/
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9nYUAS
elevation
by: michael christian
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2019
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXPsUAO
Expansion Pavilion
by: Shrine
from: Pasadena, CA
year: 2019
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001T9HSUA0
Expansion Pavilion
by: Shrine
from: Pasadena, CA
year: 2019
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001T9HSUA0
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Phoenix and The Butterfly: A story of metamorphosis
by: swig miller
from: Topanga, CA
year: 2019
Imagine walking across the playa, looking up to see a huge flaming Phoenix flying high in the night sky facing its partner, a beautiful glowing Butterfly. Twenty-five-foot pyramids made of spheres connect you to them and a staircase invites you to share their view.
Imagine returning the next day to find these pyramids filled with interactive elements like places to connect, find shade, swing, climb, and view the playa.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AX4uUAG
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Cocoonap
by: Artmisto
from: Dnipro, Ukraine
year: 2019
Cocoonap is a combination of two words: cocoon and nap. Installation-transformer, which smoothly changes its appearance and tells a small parable. This is a visualization of a metaphorical dream about the changing and cyclical nature of life, about what is its basis. Birth, flourishing, development, dissolution in eternity.
The 3×4 meter installation will be made of wood, vividly decorated with LED-stripes for a spectacular show during the night, and the surface of the cocoon itself will be covered with stencils that will project metaphorical illustrations onto the surface of the desert.
URL: https://artmisto.com/cocoonap/
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AVq3UAG
The Flybrary at Night Under the Moon
by: Christina Sporrong
from: Taos, NM
year: 2019
The Flybrary is an extraordinary library within an enormous human head, partially cut open at the top allowing a flock of illuminated birds to emerge. Within the head are several levels of catwalks to climb and nooks and crannies to sit in and enjoy the selection of books. The eyes and mouth are portholes to the outside world. Up above, the open ceiling holds a large chandelier radiating soft light within. It’s a dreamy, transformative space providing an intimate and surreal refuge for contemplation, written wisdom and freedom of thought.
URL: https://spitfireworks.blogspot.com/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW03UAG
The Flybrary, The Flybrary at night, Christina Sporrong, Christina Sporrong
Paraluna
by: Christopher Schardt
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2019
Paraluna is a giant, spinning disc of LEDs. Classical music plays from speakers on the ground while complementary animated patterns are displayed on the disc above. The disc is held up by a boom lift, allowing the disc to be raised, lowered, and tilted, to dramatic effect.
URL: http://ledlabs.co/paraluna
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&aq=paraluna#a2I0V000001AVlcUAG
Mariposita
by: Chris Carnabuci
from: Cold Spring, NY
year: 2019
Mariposita, meaning “little butterfly”, represents rebirth – of coming out of a shell, escaping confinement, and breaking through to a more meaningful and enlightening existence or experience. The act of emerging, however, is usually not so simple, and the complexity experienced both within the individual viewer and expressed externally as a communal experience, will become the atmosphere surrounding this piece. A rebirth requires power, curiosity, determination, and support, all characteristics that lead to revival and restoration. Mariposita is meant to inspire awakenings and reawakenings, growth and regrowth, beginnings and ends.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW0NUAW
Mariposita
by: Chris Carnabuci
from: Cold Spring, NY
year: 2019
Mariposita, meaning “little butterfly”, represents rebirth – of coming out of a shell, escaping confinement, and breaking through to a more meaningful and enlightening existence or experience. The act of emerging, however, is usually not so simple, and the complexity experienced both within the individual viewer and expressed externally as a communal experience, will become the atmosphere surrounding this piece. A rebirth requires power, curiosity, determination, and support, all characteristics that lead to revival and restoration. Mariposita is meant to inspire awakenings and reawakenings, growth and regrowth, beginnings and ends.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW0NUAW
BROKEN BUT TOGETHER by Michael Benisty
MIRROR POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL
21 X 12 X 10 FT
6.5 X 3.6 X 3 M
2019
https://www.michaelbenisty.com
eye of metamorphosis
by: music vizards
from: San Luis Obispo, CA
year: 2019
Metamorphosis is our projection on us self. We provide a unique experience at night with the Eye of Metamorphosis: A body-projection art installation creating an individual metamorphosis to be projected on the moving or dancing body. Butterflies, which morph into watchful eyes reminding us that wishful ideals come with the cost of exposition; or flowers, which burn away from the inside, or fire that freezes to ice. A mirror at the bottom of the eye lets participants experience their own metamorphosis.
URL: http://musicvizards.io
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXyEUAW
The Dollhouse
by: House of Strange Rituals
from: Eugene, OR
year: 2019
The Dollhouse is a life-size dollhouse replica, modeled after a turn of the century Victorian home, where participants are encouraged to discover haunted elements by interacting with objects that trigger lights and sound. The back side of the home has the illusion of being completely exposed to open playa, but is enclosed with clear acrylic paneling. This allows citizens of Black Rock City to see the illuminated structure, and the people inside, from afar. Each room has a unique interactive sound installation, which plays off the concept of a seance gone wrong. The Dollhouse transports participants to an ethereal world on playa, captivating and enticing all to play and discover more secrets within.
URL: https://www.houseofstrangerituals.com/the-dollhouse
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVxYUAW
The Dollhouse
by: House of Strange Rituals
from: Eugene, OR
year: 2019
The Dollhouse is a life-size dollhouse replica, modeled after a turn of the century Victorian home, where participants are encouraged to discover haunted elements by interacting with objects that trigger lights and sound. The back side of the home has the illusion of being completely exposed to open playa, but is enclosed with clear acrylic paneling. This allows citizens of Black Rock City to see the illuminated structure, and the people inside, from afar. Each room has a unique interactive sound installation, which plays off the concept of a seance gone wrong. The Dollhouse transports participants to an ethereal world on playa, captivating and enticing all to play and discover more secrets within.
URL: https://www.houseofstrangerituals.com/the-dollhouse
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVxYUAW
The Dollhouse
by: House of Strange Rituals
from: Eugene, OR
year: 2019
The Dollhouse is a life-size dollhouse replica, modeled after a turn of the century Victorian home, where participants are encouraged to discover haunted elements by interacting with objects that trigger lights and sound. The back side of the home has the illusion of being completely exposed to open playa, but is enclosed with clear acrylic paneling. This allows citizens of Black Rock City to see the illuminated structure, and the people inside, from afar. Each room has a unique interactive sound installation, which plays off the concept of a seance gone wrong. The Dollhouse transports participants to an ethereal world on playa, captivating and enticing all to play and discover more secrets within.
URL: https://www.houseofstrangerituals.com/the-dollhouse
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVxYUAW
Star Duster
Last light on the mountains.
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Skywhale: The Not ShyWhale
by: Blake Marcus, Chris Welch, Seven
from: Amherst, MA
year: 2019
The SkyWhale is a life sized flying technicolor whale and she will kindle the flames of imagination and wonder within all who see, touch, and listen to the piece as she arrives into the dusty desert. She strives to open the possibility of using the sky as a 3-dimensional medium for art. In nature, water creatures live in a place physically below that of terrestrial humans, and they have been downstream of many harmful human activities. SkyWhale aims to show that there can be progress and she can help heal and transform the human relationship with Nature. In recognition of the metamorphosis theme, the SkyWhale will embody the transformation of a sea creature to dream that takes to the air.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/skywhaleproject/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW6pUAG
Skywhale: The Not ShyWhale and The Dollhouse
Island of Lost Buoys and Skywhale: The Not ShyWhale
Island of Lost Buoys
by: Lillian Heyward and The Island of Lost Buoys, a Create Change Project
from: Bluffton, SC
year: 2019
On the playa is an Island, a wooden tree dominates the center made of recycled pallets, crates and drift wood. Leaves of sculpted plastic bottles rustle in the wind. Strung from a branch is a hammock made of fishing net attached to a ocean buoy marooned on the beach. Hanging from the branches are sea buoys and balls providing a place to write names or leave a message to those who will come after.
Hanging from branches are bamboo wind chimes that softly clatter in the breeze. It is an island, a refuge, a place of calm and childhood in the stormy seas of life. It appears out of the playa as a mirage, the fantasy playground of youth. Discarded materials transform into an oasis, as our adult lives transform back to childhood. Bangarang!
URL: http://www.createchangeproject.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AVsTUAW
Skywhale: The Not ShyWhale
by: Blake Marcus, Chris Welch, Seven
from: Amherst, MA
year: 2019
The SkyWhale is a life sized flying technicolor whale and she will kindle the flames of imagination and wonder within all who see, touch, and listen to the piece as she arrives into the dusty desert. She strives to open the possibility of using the sky as a 3-dimensional medium for art. In nature, water creatures live in a place physically below that of terrestrial humans, and they have been downstream of many harmful human activities. SkyWhale aims to show that there can be progress and she can help heal and transform the human relationship with Nature. In recognition of the metamorphosis theme, the SkyWhale will embody the transformation of a sea creature to dream that takes to the air.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/skywhaleproject/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org
DreamWEaver
by: Friends of a Feather
from: Reno/Tahoe, NV and Western Canada
year: 2019
Dream WEaver is Intended to display non-physical concepts in physical form. To show the invisible connection between our minds and our hands. To show that our hands can be the guide to bring our dreams into light. The dreamweaver is not one, but many beings working together to create something beyond what any single human can accomplish on their own.
Therolin no2
by: Ryan Elmandorf
from: Denver, CO
year: 2019
Therolin is a Theremin but instead of playing from a speaker the instrument is a very large guitar string electronically strummed, using an 8 inch X 20 ft pipe as a resonating body. The large pipe juts up from the playa at a very low angle. It ends at eye height. Below it’s opening a small podium awaits. As the participant reaches out to touch the podium, they will notice a soft musical sound starting to emit. If they move their hand closer to the antenna, the pitch of the sound will rise, and as they move their hand away the pitch will fall. The experience will be the interface of a traditional theramin, but with a more real, physical sound in lieu of the traditional synthesized sound.
URL: http://www.elmendorfgeurts.com/project/therolin
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AY6hUAG
Therolin no2
by: Ryan Elmandorf
from: Denver, CO
year: 2019
Therolin is a Theremin but instead of playing from a speaker the instrument is a very large guitar string electronically strummed, using an 8 inch X 20 ft pipe as a resonating body. The large pipe juts up from the playa at a very low angle. It ends at eye height. Below it’s opening a small podium awaits. As the participant reaches out to touch the podium, they will notice a soft musical sound starting to emit. If they move their hand closer to the antenna, the pitch of the sound will rise, and as they move their hand away the pitch will fall. The experience will be the interface of a traditional theramin, but with a more real, physical sound in lieu of the traditional synthesized sound.
URL: http://www.elmendorfgeurts.com/project/therolin
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AY6hUAG
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Camp MisBeehive solar powering all the things!
Up close with the Man
Under the man and Beyond.
Under the Man
I like these pavillions at the man base.
Wizard’s piece. (Bent out of shape.)
Wizard’s piece got bent out of shape so he didn’t seem to be in the best mood when I was chatting with him.
The Man’s Army
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
Some of The Man’s Army Build Crew
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
The Man’s Army Build
by: Michael Ciulla & The Rave Knights (Alexandra Friedman, Nick Harris, John Jones) with support from Sin Cohen, Steven Platt, Lizzy Layne, Ryan Geist Bozajian & Ciulla Associates
from: Los Angeles, CA
year: 2019
The Man’s Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human figures standing in a 10×10 grid. Each figure has skin of white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by a point-cloud scan of real people. At night an internal LED creates a glow emanating from within. The body and face create a blank canvas for expression. Throughout the week the figures are customized, culminating in a transformative burn. The piece is a visual metaphor contemplating conformity through shared non-conformity. People, from a distance may appear homogeneous but once among them you see their individuality. Through shared experience burners are altered and stretched by the thoughts and intentions of one another and then transformed through an expression of impermanence.
URL: http://themansarmy.com
Contact: [email protected]
From There to Here & Here to There
by: Teri Bevelacqua
from: Olympia, WA
year: 2019
Reminiscent of a bygone era of interstate highways… From There to Here & Here to There, is a playa specific ever changing large road sign, crafted to resemble a farm stand type billboard. Closer examination reveals a large scale painting made up of ten painted panels. The paintings, encaustic mixed media, are layers of images, marks and paint creating an ever changing image of journeys, a map. This map will consider time and experiences as additional orienting tools. The images are both personal and universal and like memories you think you have neatly tucked away, they emerge and fade in the strangest ways.
Contact: [email protected]
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Luminous Waveforms by Phil Spitler & Victoria Mara Heilweil
http://philspitler.com/luminouswaveforms/ (Thanks to Phil for the caption update here)
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown (Thanks for being cool with me taking a photo like this!)
When your camp itself is art (Name Unknown)
When your camp itself is art (Name Unknown)
When your camp itself is art (Name Unknown)
I.L.Y
by: Dan Mountain
from: Portola Valley, CA
year: 2019
A 27 foot forearm and hand, fabricated from engineered steel, recycled and repurposed scrap metal meant to engage participants in various visual, physical, and emotional ways. Housing an internal armature of chains, gears, sprockets, and springs, the involvement of participants allows the fingers and parts of the hand to bring the sculpture to its full realization.
The intention of ILY is to encourage communication, collaboration, and eagerness to work together.
Contact: [email protected]
Cone Down Buid
by: Looking Up Arts
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
Cone Down is a whimsical acknowledgment of life’s little indignities. This fallen ice cream cone has a steel frame, with vacuum formed polycarbonate panels lit with LEDs. Cone down is climbable with a viewing deck on top. Inside of the ice cream scoop will be a padded ‘chill’ area which will be a delightful respite during the day. The LEDs will illuminate the scoop from the inside and out, so at night the ‘chill’ area will be a beautiful glowing room as you watch folks ascend and descend this tipped-over tasty treat. Ice cream to be served.
URL: https://www.lookingup.art/icecream
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXhwUAG
Vaike is one of my all time favorite people. She has always been friendly, gracious, and just an all around spectacular human being. Love you Vaike.
Mansonian Museum
Mansonian Museum
BURN Artist Unknown
RV with amazing artwork. Love the colors here. Art by = Sector 17 = [email protected]
RV with Zebra paint job.
RV with sunflowers and solar panels.
HEAT part of the large behind the scenes Burning Man Infrastructure
Yellow Bikes
Large solar array that also functions as a shade structure.
Room with Teddy Bears!
Wonderful camp setup.
Roasted Breaux & Coffee Heaux Coffee Camp has a spectacular facade, camp, and solar array. Thanks for the tour!
Wonderful burner. The tour of your camp was fun. Thank you!
Nice colors! Camp Name Unknown
Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown
Puzzles and Prayers- Reinventing the Prayer Wheel
by: Gwen Darling with Gwen and Josh Art
from: Santa Cruz, CA & Reno, NV
year: 2019
“Puzzles and Prayers” is a large scale interactive mixed media sculpture serving as a shaded gathering space for participants to explore, discover, to pray and play. Prayer wheels are typically seen as individual wheels aligned in long rows, but the “Puzzles and Prayers” wheel components will be arranged in a grid. Each ceramic wheel will be a puzzle piece. When spun into alignment with the rest, the wheels will compose a beautiful mural. It will give the participant a unique opportunity to interact with this spiritual tradition as well as discovering the hidden image of the contemporary mural.
URL: https://hairypotter1008.wixsite.com/website
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVvhUAG
Transmutation
by: Arturo Gonzalez
from: Saltillo, Coahuila Mexico
year: 2019
Is extinction forever? This work seeks to generate a reflection on the increasingly possible cloning of extinct species. Since the origin of life, evolution has never returned to a vanished species. However, human science is about to break this rule. Is it ethical and moral to play gods? Through scientific reproductions of a neanderthal and a saber-toothed tiger that emerge from the earth (extinction) to cross a DNA helix and reach our present with a paleo-reconstruction where the visitor can interact and then go through a series of circles that forms the geometry of life arrive at a mythical alebrije that represents the transmutation of our matter.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVujUAG
Stone 27
by: Benjamin Langholz
from: California & Berlin, Germany
year: 2019
Confront nature and yourself as you journey along 27 stones floating above the Playa. Step into an alternate reality where destructive energy has been harmonized with nature to create moments of physical and mental elevation. Stone 27 finds great inspiration in simplicity, minimalism, and math to create clearness and consciousness in a material world, inviting you to a moment of complete presence.
URL: https://stonetwentyseven.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVo2UAG
Black Rock Public Library Deep Playa Branch
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Temple of Brad Pitt
by: Geodesic Temple
from: Upstate NY
year: 2019
The Temple of Brad Pitt channels the famous Hollywood actor. It captures Brad Pitt’s aura, extracts the essence of his being through data gathering and redisplays it as a data portrait and performative sculpture enabling Burning Man 2019 participants who enter a special apparatus to briefly experience what it is to be him.
URL: http://tobrit.geodesictemple.com/
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9nYUAS
Positive Reactor
by: Assaf Allouche
from: El Sitio de Playa Venao, Panama Republic
year: 2019
The Reactor is a large complexed geometric structure made of endless triangles. From the ground it looks like a crown or a pomograne, but from its center it forms the sacred geometrical shape of the Merkaba.
Its purpose is to remind us that acts of kindness reward the giver, the receiver and the witness of the good acts, with a boost of oxytocin, producing good feeling to all and taking nothing in return. Therefore creating energy — a Reactor!
URL: https://www.thereactorproject.com
Contact: [email protected]
(Thanks for Reddit user jlev for the caption update here)
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
#Slonik
by: Mikhail Tsaturyan
from: Moscow, Russia
year: 2019
It’s a 75 ft fluorescent elephant which will be hard to miss on playa.
#Slonik is designed to draw attention to elephant mistreatment in Africa and Asia. We should not let the elephants go extinct. If you take one element away from the ecosystem it will affect all the other creatures including humans themselves!
Slonik — transliteration from Cyrillic — is the diminutive form of a Russian word that means elephant.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXTLUA4
LOVE
by: Laura Kimpton with Jeff Schomberg
from: Venice, CA and Reno, NV
year: 2019
Rainbow LOVE is celebration of love — reminding us that everyone should have the right to love who they love, and to love themselves.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001TAJuUAO
The Monumental Mammoth at Dawn
by: Girl Scout Gold Award Recipient Tahoe Mack, Mentor and Protector of Tule Springs Representative Sherri Grotheer, and artists Luis Varela-Rico and Dana Albany
from: Las Vegas, NV
year: 2019
The Monumental Mammoth project will depict a life-sized steel Colombian mammoth skeleton collaged with metal found objects to tell the story of Tule Spring National Monument’s past, present, and future. The sheer size and struggle of the mammoth’s stance is a representation of the universal call to protect what the earth has given humanity. As a community, we are called together to protect the fossils of our past and the education of our future. Dana Albany and Luis Varela-Rico are pulling together the sleek elements of the interior steel structure and the intricate weavings to represents the distinctive community that is Las Vegas.It also tells the story of a rising feminine power, and shows all women of any age that anything is possible!
URL: https://tulemammothproject.wordpress.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVtMUAW
The Man base before dawn
Koro Loko
by: Emily Nicolosi
from: Salt Lake City, UT
year: 2019
A billowing heart made of wire netting filled with hundreds of tiny dichroic plexi squares refracts the spectra of light in all directions. Benches under lightposts encircling the heart provide a place to hunker, commune and daydream. Like the exuberance of colors reflected by this heart, always-present and ever-shifting, this heart conjures the thousands of expressions and materializations of love prospected in the human experience.
URL: https://sites.google.com/view/love-is-project/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AW2sUAG
Mariposita
by: Chris Carnabuci
from: Cold Spring, NY
year: 2019
Mariposita, meaning “little butterfly”, represents rebirth – of coming out of a shell, escaping confinement, and breaking through to a more meaningful and enlightening existence or experience. The act of emerging, however, is usually not so simple, and the complexity experienced both within the individual viewer and expressed externally as a communal experience, will become the atmosphere surrounding this piece. A rebirth requires power, curiosity, determination, and support, all characteristics that lead to revival and restoration. Mariposita is meant to inspire awakenings and reawakenings, growth and regrowth, beginnings and ends.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW0NUAW
Lucy S. Cargo Mutant Vehicle and the Man in the dust
(Thanks to Cait for the caption update here)
Lucy S. Cargo Mutant Vehicle
(Thanks to Cait for the caption update here)
Camp Walter’s Tower of Terror, Playa Harvey by Steve Landis, and Stacey Newman Weldon’s Adventure Mobiles (Thanks to Steve for the caption update)
Sweet DIY Figjam Cooler AC here
Name Unknown
Colorful paint on RV called The Pinnacle of Love
Drink Water Build
Dusty Waffle Dome Build
Impressive shade structure over a big RV.
The Man Base
Up close with the man.
The Man Base
Circus Fabulae Build
by: Benjamin Jones and the Populus Ludere
from: Brooklyn, NY
year: 2019
Circus Fabulae is a whimsical two story swing set with beautiful, custom designed mosaic roof and circular play space for performances of all kinds. At its a heart is a community space produced by a community of artists for the community to interact on. Circus Fabulae is at its core an interactive art piece that fosters participation from the community. First, it brings together a variety of artists to design the swings and mosaic ceiling, then it provides the residents of Black Rock a place to rest and play during the festival and finally, it is a performance space for all kinds of mediums (dance, theater, games, music, spoken word) that encourages one to push personal boundaries and deepen one’s connection to the community at large.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/circusfabulae/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVyXUAW
BYTE
by: Jason Blanda
from: Guttenberg, NJ
year: 2019
B.Ÿ.T.E. (Burners for Ÿntelligent Technology Emancipation) consists of two monolithic, anthropomorphic microchips representing the very first sentient robots to be freed from slavery, Chip and Terra.
Chip and Terra were first set free to play on the dusty dance floor of deep playa at Black Rock City in 2018. Their virgin year home was one of exploration as they adapted to their newly found liberation.
This year, they hope to enter the imago stage of their evolution and return home to embrace the magical whimsy, radical self expression and symbiotic love as they emerge from their chrysalis and blossom into the colorful, loveable creatures they were always meant to embody. They hope to fully complete their Metamorphoses.
URL: https://www.cleaveranimated.com/byte-art-installation
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AY6XUAW
Painted Trailer Artist Name Unknown
Transmutation
by: Arturo Gonzalez
from: Saltillo, Coahuila Mexico
year: 2019
Is extinction forever? This work seeks to generate a reflection on the increasingly possible cloning of extinct species. Since the origin of life, evolution has never returned to a vanished species. However, human science is about to break this rule. Is it ethical and moral to play gods? Through scientific reproductions of a neanderthal and a saber-toothed tiger that emerge from the earth (extinction) to cross a DNA helix and reach our present with a paleo-reconstruction where the visitor can interact and then go through a series of circles that forms the geometry of life arrive at a mythical alebrije that represents the transmutation of our matter.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVujUAG
The Phoenix and The Butterfly: A story of metamorphosis
by: swig miller
from: Topanga, CA
year: 2019
Imagine walking across the playa, looking up to see a huge flaming Phoenix flying high in the night sky facing its partner, a beautiful glowing Butterfly. Twenty-five-foot pyramids made of spheres connect you to them and a staircase invites you to share their view.
Imagine returning the next day to find these pyramids filled with interactive elements like places to connect, find shade, swing, climb, and view the playa.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AX4uUAG
Andromeda Reimagined
by: Playa Muses
from: Bay Area, CA
year: 2019
In myth, Andromeda earned the god’s respect by her earthly deeds and was rewarded with celestial immortality as a constellation. We reimagine the Andromeda Myth, evolving it from a classic male hero focus to a strong feminine and collaborative paradigm.
This art piece brings Andromeda back to earth, and asks, should we aspire to immortality? Can our fleeting actions ultimately stack up to monumental outcomes?
The piece, built by first-time playa artists, consists of a 26 ft spire, with ornate star-patterned walls. It shines like a Moroccan lantern at night, and beckons viewers to rest in a plush interior, seek shade, duck a windstorm. It incubates change. People come to reflect on their course, and to feel inspired to set their sights higher.
URL: http://www.projectandromeda.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9r6UAC
The Phoenix and The Butterfly: A story of metamorphosis
by: swig miller
from: Topanga, CA
year: 2019
Imagine walking across the playa, looking up to see a huge flaming Phoenix flying high in the night sky facing its partner, a beautiful glowing Butterfly. Twenty-five-foot pyramids made of spheres connect you to them and a staircase invites you to share their view.
Imagine returning the next day to find these pyramids filled with interactive elements like places to connect, find shade, swing, climb, and view the playa.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AX4uUAG
Pastel Playa at dusk
Chroma Commons
by: Dusty Nation, Lead Artist Cameron Anne Mason
from: Seattle, WA
year: 2019
In a temporary city in a constant state of metamorphosis, Chroma Commons creates a sense of place using ephemeral materials: Silk, color, and air. Beckoning from across the playa, a circle of banners dyed along the color wheel creates a kinetic silken environment and provides ever-changing views of the city from a dynamic interior.
In the center is the Prism, a triangular tower with a sound installation using noise-reducing technology to create a sanctuary of quiet. Benches provide places to gather, rest, and commune with other Burners.
At night, the spectrum of color expands. Images are rear-projected onto a band of acrylic panels at the top of the Prism, color-changing lighting bathes the banners, and ambient light glows around seating.
URL: http://alibipictures.com/blog/2019/04/21/dusty-nation-color-commons-at-brc-2019/
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9HDUA0
Nice to see you again!
LOVE
by: Laura Kimpton with Jeff Schomberg
from: Venice, CA and Reno, NV
year: 2019
Rainbow LOVE is celebration of love — reminding us that everyone should have the right to love who they love, and to love themselves.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001TAJuUAO
The Monumental Mammoth
by: Girl Scout Gold Award Recipient Tahoe Mack, Mentor and Protector of Tule Springs Representative Sherri Grotheer, and artists Luis Varela-Rico and Dana Albany
from: Las Vegas, NV
year: 2019
The Monumental Mammoth project will depict a life-sized steel Colombian mammoth skeleton collaged with metal found objects to tell the story of Tule Spring National Monument’s past, present, and future. The sheer size and struggle of the mammoth’s stance is a representation of the universal call to protect what the earth has given humanity. As a community, we are called together to protect the fossils of our past and the education of our future. Dana Albany and Luis Varela-Rico are pulling together the sleek elements of the interior steel structure and the intricate weavings to represents the distinctive community that is Las Vegas.It also tells the story of a rising feminine power, and shows all women of any age that anything is possible!
URL: https://tulemammothproject.wordpress.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVtMUAW
Dusty mountain sunset
Cosmo
by: Roger Heitzman
from: Scotts Valley, CA
year: 2019
Rising out of a tower of hand-bent deep rust patina steel flames is a contrasting stainless steel kinetic wind sculpture. The sculpture’s center steel tube supports the 6 axes on which the hand-hammered stainless steel wind-catching cups spin via straight and bent stainless steel tubing. Precisely balanced and using stainless steel ball bearings, the piece will react to gentlest of breezes yet withstand the most intense winds. At the very top sits the sun, made of a stainless steel sphere surrounded by rusted steel flames. This piece gives the illusion of the heat generated by upward-moving flames rising to activate the sculpture. The randomness of flame heat is reflected in the randomness of the sculpture’s movement.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVpUUAW
Some of the vehicles people bring are just incredible.
Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown
El Pulpo Mecanico and other Mutant Vehicles in the DMV line.
Small mutant vehicle. Name unknown.
ICHY
The Monumental Mammoth
by: Girl Scout Gold Award Recipient Tahoe Mack, Mentor and Protector of Tule Springs Representative Sherri Grotheer, and artists Luis Varela-Rico and Dana Albany
from: Las Vegas, NV
year: 2019
The Monumental Mammoth project will depict a life-sized steel Colombian mammoth skeleton collaged with metal found objects to tell the story of Tule Spring National Monument’s past, present, and future. The sheer size and struggle of the mammoth’s stance is a representation of the universal call to protect what the earth has given humanity. As a community, we are called together to protect the fossils of our past and the education of our future. Dana Albany and Luis Varela-Rico are pulling together the sleek elements of the interior steel structure and the intricate weavings to represents the distinctive community that is Las Vegas.It also tells the story of a rising feminine power, and shows all women of any age that anything is possible!
URL: https://tulemammothproject.wordpress.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVtMUAW
The Monumental Mammoth
by: Girl Scout Gold Award Recipient Tahoe Mack, Mentor and Protector of Tule Springs Representative Sherri Grotheer, and artists Luis Varela-Rico and Dana Albany
from: Las Vegas, NV
year: 2019
The Monumental Mammoth project will depict a life-sized steel Colombian mammoth skeleton collaged with metal found objects to tell the story of Tule Spring National Monument’s past, present, and future. The sheer size and struggle of the mammoth’s stance is a representation of the universal call to protect what the earth has given humanity. As a community, we are called together to protect the fossils of our past and the education of our future. Dana Albany and Luis Varela-Rico are pulling together the sleek elements of the interior steel structure and the intricate weavings to represents the distinctive community that is Las Vegas.It also tells the story of a rising feminine power, and shows all women of any age that anything is possible!
URL: https://tulemammothproject.wordpress.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVtMUAW
The Monumental Mammoth
by: Girl Scout Gold Award Recipient Tahoe Mack, Mentor and Protector of Tule Springs Representative Sherri Grotheer, and artists Luis Varela-Rico and Dana Albany
from: Las Vegas, NV
year: 2019
The Monumental Mammoth project will depict a life-sized steel Colombian mammoth skeleton collaged with metal found objects to tell the story of Tule Spring National Monument’s past, present, and future. The sheer size and struggle of the mammoth’s stance is a representation of the universal call to protect what the earth has given humanity. As a community, we are called together to protect the fossils of our past and the education of our future. Dana Albany and Luis Varela-Rico are pulling together the sleek elements of the interior steel structure and the intricate weavings to represents the distinctive community that is Las Vegas.It also tells the story of a rising feminine power, and shows all women of any age that anything is possible!
URL: https://tulemammothproject.wordpress.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVtMUAW
The Monumental Mammoth
by: Girl Scout Gold Award Recipient Tahoe Mack, Mentor and Protector of Tule Springs Representative Sherri Grotheer, and artists Luis Varela-Rico and Dana Albany
from: Las Vegas, NV
year: 2019
The Monumental Mammoth project will depict a life-sized steel Colombian mammoth skeleton collaged with metal found objects to tell the story of Tule Spring National Monument’s past, present, and future. The sheer size and struggle of the mammoth’s stance is a representation of the universal call to protect what the earth has given humanity. As a community, we are called together to protect the fossils of our past and the education of our future. Dana Albany and Luis Varela-Rico are pulling together the sleek elements of the interior steel structure and the intricate weavings to represents the distinctive community that is Las Vegas.It also tells the story of a rising feminine power, and shows all women of any age that anything is possible!
URL: https://tulemammothproject.wordpress.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVtMUAW
2019 Black Rock City Camps and Villages for your reference.
I’m not sure who is boosting who here but kinda fun regardless. How often do you boost or get boosted from a vehicle like this?!
El Pulpo Mecanico
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Folly and the Dust,Dave Keane,The Folly Builders
When I suggested they bring in some equipment to dig this trench they were like “we don’t want to bother HEAT, they’re super busy right now”. I was like how considerate of them. So they dug the trench by hand with whatever tools they had. Sadly I never found this piece again. #TILT by: Tomas Neumann from: Santa Ana, CA year: 2019 Inspired by surreal photographs by French artist Philippe Ramette, TILT allows you to see the world differently. Not only participants who interact with TILT by stepping onto the balcony shift their perspective. Even observers are intuitively and playfully urged to act to make sense of contradictory visuals. What is real and what is fake? What does it take to change reality? https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9uAUAS
#TILT Build
by: Tomas Neumann
from: Santa Ana, CA
year: 2019
Inspired by surreal photographs by French artist Philippe Ramette, TILT allows you to see the world differently. Not only participants who interact with TILT by stepping onto the balcony shift their perspective. Even observers are intuitively and playfully urged to act to make sense of contradictory visuals. What is real and what is fake? What does it take to change reality?
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9uAUAS
#TILT Build
by: Tomas Neumann
from: Santa Ana, CA
year: 2019
Inspired by surreal photographs by French artist Philippe Ramette, TILT allows you to see the world differently. Not only participants who interact with TILT by stepping onto the balcony shift their perspective. Even observers are intuitively and playfully urged to act to make sense of contradictory visuals. What is real and what is fake? What does it take to change reality?
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9uAUAS
Climbing up here with flip flops and a camera was dumb! Going up was easy. Going down, not so much. Fun though.
Stone 27
by: Benjamin Langholz
from: California & Berlin, Germany
year: 2019
Confront nature and yourself as you journey along 27 stones floating above the Playa. Step into an alternate reality where destructive energy has been harmonized with nature to create moments of physical and mental elevation. Stone 27 finds great inspiration in simplicity, minimalism, and math to create clearness and consciousness in a material world, inviting you to a moment of complete presence.
URL: https://stonetwentyseven.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVo2UAG
Stone 27
by: Benjamin Langholz
from: California & Berlin, Germany
year: 2019
Confront nature and yourself as you journey along 27 stones floating above the Playa. Step into an alternate reality where destructive energy has been harmonized with nature to create moments of physical and mental elevation. Stone 27 finds great inspiration in simplicity, minimalism, and math to create clearness and consciousness in a material world, inviting you to a moment of complete presence.
URL: https://stonetwentyseven.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVo2UAG
Stone 27
by: Benjamin Langholz
from: California & Berlin, Germany
year: 2019
Confront nature and yourself as you journey along 27 stones floating above the Playa. Step into an alternate reality where destructive energy has been harmonized with nature to create moments of physical and mental elevation. Stone 27 finds great inspiration in simplicity, minimalism, and math to create clearness and consciousness in a material world, inviting you to a moment of complete presence.
URL: https://stonetwentyseven.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVo2UAG
Stone 27
by: Benjamin Langholz
from: California & Berlin, Germany
year: 2019
Confront nature and yourself as you journey along 27 stones floating above the Playa. Step into an alternate reality where destructive energy has been harmonized with nature to create moments of physical and mental elevation. Stone 27 finds great inspiration in simplicity, minimalism, and math to create clearness and consciousness in a material world, inviting you to a moment of complete presence.
URL: https://stonetwentyseven.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVo2UAG
Stone 27
by: Benjamin Langholz
from: California & Berlin, Germany
year: 2019
Confront nature and yourself as you journey along 27 stones floating above the Playa. Step into an alternate reality where destructive energy has been harmonized with nature to create moments of physical and mental elevation. Stone 27 finds great inspiration in simplicity, minimalism, and math to create clearness and consciousness in a material world, inviting you to a moment of complete presence.
URL: https://stonetwentyseven.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVo2UAG
Stone 27
by: Benjamin Langholz
from: California & Berlin, Germany
year: 2019
Confront nature and yourself as you journey along 27 stones floating above the Playa. Step into an alternate reality where destructive energy has been harmonized with nature to create moments of physical and mental elevation. Stone 27 finds great inspiration in simplicity, minimalism, and math to create clearness and consciousness in a material world, inviting you to a moment of complete presence.
URL: https://stonetwentyseven.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVo2UAG
The Phoenix and The Butterfly: A story of metamorphosis Build
by: swig miller
from: Topanga, CA
year: 2019
Imagine walking across the playa, looking up to see a huge flaming Phoenix flying high in the night sky facing its partner, a beautiful glowing Butterfly. Twenty-five-foot pyramids made of spheres connect you to them and a staircase invites you to share their view.
Imagine returning the next day to find these pyramids filled with interactive elements like places to connect, find shade, swing, climb, and view the playa.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AX4uUAG
The Phoenix and The Butterfly: A story of metamorphosis Build
by: swig miller
from: Topanga, CA
year: 2019
Imagine walking across the playa, looking up to see a huge flaming Phoenix flying high in the night sky facing its partner, a beautiful glowing Butterfly. Twenty-five-foot pyramids made of spheres connect you to them and a staircase invites you to share their view.
Imagine returning the next day to find these pyramids filled with interactive elements like places to connect, find shade, swing, climb, and view the playa.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AX4uUAG
The Flybrary Build
by: Christina Sporrong
from: Taos, NM
year: 2019
The Flybrary is an extraordinary library within an enormous human head, partially cut open at the top allowing a flock of illuminated birds to emerge. Within the head are several levels of catwalks to climb and nooks and crannies to sit in and enjoy the selection of books. The eyes and mouth are portholes to the outside world. Up above, the open ceiling holds a large chandelier radiating soft light within. It’s a dreamy, transformative space providing an intimate and surreal refuge for contemplation, written wisdom and freedom of thought.
URL: https://spitfireworks.blogspot.com/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW03UAG
The Flybrary Build
by: Christina Sporrong
from: Taos, NM
year: 2019
The Flybrary is an extraordinary library within an enormous human head, partially cut open at the top allowing a flock of illuminated birds to emerge. Within the head are several levels of catwalks to climb and nooks and crannies to sit in and enjoy the selection of books. The eyes and mouth are portholes to the outside world. Up above, the open ceiling holds a large chandelier radiating soft light within. It’s a dreamy, transformative space providing an intimate and surreal refuge for contemplation, written wisdom and freedom of thought.
URL: https://spitfireworks.blogspot.com/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW03UAG
Therolin no2 Build Crew working in the dust.
Therolin no2
by: Ryan Elmandorf
from: Denver, CO
year: 2019
Therolin is a Theremin but instead of playing from a speaker the instrument is a very large guitar string electronically strummed, using an 8 inch X 20 ft pipe as a resonating body. The large pipe juts up from the playa at a very low angle. It ends at eye height. Below it’s opening a small podium awaits. As the participant reaches out to touch the podium, they will notice a soft musical sound starting to emit. If they move their hand closer to the antenna, the pitch of the sound will rise, and as they move their hand away the pitch will fall. The experience will be the interface of a traditional theramin, but with a more real, physical sound in lieu of the traditional synthesized sound.
URL: http://www.elmendorfgeurts.com/project/therolin
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AY6hUAG
Steely T Mutant Vehicle (Thanks to Reddit user Macrobridge for the update)
Shutterbuggy Photo Booth Mutant Vehicle FTW
Cute red mutant vehicle. Name Unknown.
Musical note and plastic Flamingos atop mutant vehicle. Name Unknown
Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown
WHOOHA1 Cross Into The Blue Mutant Vehicle
Wonderful colors on this mutant vehicle. Name unknown.
Wonderful colors on this mutant vehicle. Name unknown.
The Man and The Dust
Electric Wrecker Mutant Vehicle, by Keith Johnson and Merrilee Proffitt
Fish Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown
Fish Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown
Fish Mutant Vehicle Name Unknown
Mutant Vehicles in the DMV line. Stardust in front here.
DMV line.
DMV line.
DMV line.
So awesome! I love the small mutant vehicles. Name unknown.
I’ve been really enjoying the smaller mutant vehicles like this. Name unknown.
I see these friendly folks every year and I always forget the name of their amazing vehicle. Name unknown.
The Wheels of Zoroaster Resurrection Build
by: Anton Viditz-Ward & Deep Creek Experimental
from: Telluride, CO
year: 2019
Two large wheels hung on two axles driven independently by two drive shafts with hand-cranks. The wheels are cages that will contain firewood that is set on fire and spun by the hand-cranked drive shafts.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW1fUAG
The Wheels of Zoroaster Resurrection Build
by: Anton Viditz-Ward & Deep Creek Experimental
from: Telluride, CO
year: 2019
Two large wheels hung on two axles driven independently by two drive shafts with hand-cranks. The wheels are cages that will contain firewood that is set on fire and spun by the hand-cranked drive shafts.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW1fUAG
I like how it looks like there is tiny person leaning on this on the right.
Portal
by: David Oliver and the Art City Monsters
from: Ventura, CA
year: 2019
A Portal possible of transformation… not to that which is coming, but to things here. With a ring 12′ in diameter made from 4,608 stained glass tiles with a total of 24 colors, graduating the color wheel in a flowing mosaic that is two sided. Two 7-thousand-pound basalt stone columns stand guard from the left and from the right. Portal will also be lit with an increasing laser light show controlled on a theremin device, with sound effects that go off when one enters.
Symbiosis.
The color in harmony attracts vitality through beauty, like a flower does a bee. The bee gets food in exchange for spreading pollen. In the same manner one attracts to Portal. Coming out with powerful frequencies, to bounce off their friends, their family, the animals, EARTH, and even so called… “enemies.”
URL: http://www.facebook.com/PORTALbrc/
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVueUAG
I like seeing more and more things powered by solar. Less generator noise etc. Just awesome.
Always a pleasure to run into Mark while he’s out doing some Burning Man.
Always a pleasure to run into Mark while he’s out doing some Burning Man.
Expansion Pavilion and The Folly
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance Build
by: tyson ayers and Resonant Arts
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2019
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance is a sanctuary dedicated to letting participants experience the phenomena of sympathetic resonance. All the walls of this epic structure are made of piano harps, surrounding the participant with 20,000 musical strings that echo back every sound they make. All the strings are tuned to pentatonic scales based on the Schumann Resonance, the earth’s fundamental frequency, so that anything played on the strings sounds musical. Five intimate, pentagonal chambers let participants deeply immerse themselves in the experience, while the open-air center space allows for larger gatherings. A 39′ tower rises up from the center’s intricately designed dias while detailed artworks adorn the space.
URL: http://www.soundcave.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVn4UAG
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
A small part of The Folly build crew at work
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
One of my campmates who also happens to be a total badass. He’s often out there buildin temples and working his tail off.
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance Build
by: tyson ayers and Resonant Arts
from: Oakland, CA
year: 2019
The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance is a sanctuary dedicated to letting participants experience the phenomena of sympathetic resonance. All the walls of this epic structure are made of piano harps, surrounding the participant with 20,000 musical strings that echo back every sound they make. All the strings are tuned to pentatonic scales based on the Schumann Resonance, the earth’s fundamental frequency, so that anything played on the strings sounds musical. Five intimate, pentagonal chambers let participants deeply immerse themselves in the experience, while the open-air center space allows for larger gatherings. A 39′ tower rises up from the center’s intricately designed dias while detailed artworks adorn the space.
URL: http://www.soundcave.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVn4UAG
Expansion Pavilion
by: Shrine
from: Pasadena, CA
year: 2019
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001T9HSUA0
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
BMIR
Trippity Twitchit
by: True North Absurdities
from: Calgary, Canada
year: 2019
A cluster of giant steel stems, wrapped around each other and swirling upwards, will form the base of the main structure and its support. The stems will be segmented to show definition as well as hug the curves. Atop the stems, at approximately 10′-12′, sit three massive heads, sharp-toothed and spiky, looking in different directions. These will be the fire breathers, each independently controlled from the ground.Flanking the main structure will be three smaller plants, all with similarly twisted stems and spiky, toothy heads. Inside these heads will be LED par cans, focused on the main structure for extra illumination.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/culture/history/brc-history/event-archives/2019-event-archive/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AVkFUAW
(Thanks to Reddit user Mookyhands for the caption update here.)
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The Monumental Mammoth
by: Girl Scout Gold Award Recipient Tahoe Mack, Mentor and Protector of Tule Springs Representative Sherri Grotheer, and artists Luis Varela-Rico and Dana Albany
from: Las Vegas, NV
year: 2019
The Monumental Mammoth project will depict a life-sized steel Colombian mammoth skeleton collaged with metal found objects to tell the story of Tule Spring National Monument’s past, present, and future. The sheer size and struggle of the mammoth’s stance is a representation of the universal call to protect what the earth has given humanity. As a community, we are called together to protect the fossils of our past and the education of our future. Dana Albany and Luis Varela-Rico are pulling together the sleek elements of the interior steel structure and the intricate weavings to represents the distinctive community that is Las Vegas.It also tells the story of a rising feminine power, and shows all women of any age that anything is possible!
URL: https://tulemammothproject.wordpress.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVtMUAW
The Monumental Mammoth
by: Girl Scout Gold Award Recipient Tahoe Mack, Mentor and Protector of Tule Springs Representative Sherri Grotheer, and artists Luis Varela-Rico and Dana Albany
from: Las Vegas, NV
year: 2019
The Monumental Mammoth project will depict a life-sized steel Colombian mammoth skeleton collaged with metal found objects to tell the story of Tule Spring National Monument’s past, present, and future. The sheer size and struggle of the mammoth’s stance is a representation of the universal call to protect what the earth has given humanity. As a community, we are called together to protect the fossils of our past and the education of our future. Dana Albany and Luis Varela-Rico are pulling together the sleek elements of the interior steel structure and the intricate weavings to represents the distinctive community that is Las Vegas.It also tells the story of a rising feminine power, and shows all women of any age that anything is possible!
URL: https://tulemammothproject.wordpress.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVtMUAW
The Monumental Mammoth
by: Girl Scout Gold Award Recipient Tahoe Mack, Mentor and Protector of Tule Springs Representative Sherri Grotheer, and artists Luis Varela-Rico and Dana Albany
from: Las Vegas, NV
year: 2019
The Monumental Mammoth project will depict a life-sized steel Colombian mammoth skeleton collaged with metal found objects to tell the story of Tule Spring National Monument’s past, present, and future. The sheer size and struggle of the mammoth’s stance is a representation of the universal call to protect what the earth has given humanity. As a community, we are called together to protect the fossils of our past and the education of our future. Dana Albany and Luis Varela-Rico are pulling together the sleek elements of the interior steel structure and the intricate weavings to represents the distinctive community that is Las Vegas.It also tells the story of a rising feminine power, and shows all women of any age that anything is possible!
URL: https://tulemammothproject.wordpress.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVtMUAW
The Monumental Mammoth
by: Girl Scout Gold Award Recipient Tahoe Mack, Mentor and Protector of Tule Springs Representative Sherri Grotheer, and artists Luis Varela-Rico and Dana Albany
from: Las Vegas, NV
year: 2019
The Monumental Mammoth project will depict a life-sized steel Colombian mammoth skeleton collaged with metal found objects to tell the story of Tule Spring National Monument’s past, present, and future. The sheer size and struggle of the mammoth’s stance is a representation of the universal call to protect what the earth has given humanity. As a community, we are called together to protect the fossils of our past and the education of our future. Dana Albany and Luis Varela-Rico are pulling together the sleek elements of the interior steel structure and the intricate weavings to represents the distinctive community that is Las Vegas.It also tells the story of a rising feminine power, and shows all women of any age that anything is possible!
URL: https://tulemammothproject.wordpress.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVtMUAW
I had intentions of coming back to shoot this when it was complete. But I never did. Darn!
Cloud Swing / Cloud Swing Storm (build before the swings are mounted)
by: Lindsay Glatz with Curious Form
from: New Orleans, LA
year: 2019
Cloud Swing consists of swings suspended from a glowing cloud. Through utilizing a ubiquitous symbol of childhood, the work remains accessible and unassuming. The swing itself generates feelings of nostalgia and simplicity.
While the swings remain unoccupied, the cloud above emanates a steady white glow of light, appearing to float within the darkness. The light shines downward highlighting the empty swing in an invitation for passersby to enjoy its delights. Once the swing is occupied the transformation and color begins to glow. Cloud Swing explores the transformative possibilities of imagination and innovation. Showcasing that no matter what pulls you back wonder, delight, and joy will inevitably push you forward.
URL: http://www.miraclewonderlandcarnival.co/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVylUAG
LOVE
by: Laura Kimpton with Jeff Schomberg
from: Venice, CA and Reno, NV
year: 2019
Rainbow LOVE is celebration of love — reminding us that everyone should have the right to love who they love, and to love themselves.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001TAJuUAO
Chroma Commons
by: Dusty Nation, Lead Artist Cameron Anne Mason
from: Seattle, WA
year: 2019
In a temporary city in a constant state of metamorphosis, Chroma Commons creates a sense of place using ephemeral materials: Silk, color, and air. Beckoning from across the playa, a circle of banners dyed along the color wheel creates a kinetic silken environment and provides ever-changing views of the city from a dynamic interior.
In the center is the Prism, a triangular tower with a sound installation using noise-reducing technology to create a sanctuary of quiet. Benches provide places to gather, rest, and commune with other Burners.
At night, the spectrum of color expands. Images are rear-projected onto a band of acrylic panels at the top of the Prism, color-changing lighting bathes the banners, and ambient light glows around seating.
URL: http://alibipictures.com/blog/2019/04/21/dusty-nation-color-commons-at-brc-2019/
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001T9HDUA0
Niloticus Build
by: Peter Hazel
from: Reno, NV
year: 2019
Niloticus is a 40 foot long mosaic crocodile that invites visitors to climb on top of him. His eyes, teeth, and osteoderms will light up in the night.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW2iUAG
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The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Playa Surface
Playa Surface
Playa Surface
Playa Potato Chips
Island of Lost Buoys
by: Lillian Heyward and The Island of Lost Buoys, a Create Change Project
from: Bluffton, SC
year: 2019
On the playa is an Island, a wooden tree dominates the center made of recycled pallets, crates and drift wood. Leaves of sculpted plastic bottles rustle in the wind. Strung from a branch is a hammock made of fishing net attached to a ocean buoy marooned on the beach. Hanging from the branches are sea buoys and balls providing a place to write names or leave a message to those who will come after.
Hanging from branches are bamboo wind chimes that softly clatter in the breeze. It is an island, a refuge, a place of calm and childhood in the stormy seas of life. It appears out of the playa as a mirage, the fantasy playground of youth. Discarded materials transform into an oasis, as our adult lives transform back to childhood. Bangarang!
URL: http://www.createchangeproject.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AVsTUAW
Island of Lost Buoys
by: Lillian Heyward and The Island of Lost Buoys, a Create Change Project
from: Bluffton, SC
year: 2019
On the playa is an Island, a wooden tree dominates the center made of recycled pallets, crates and drift wood. Leaves of sculpted plastic bottles rustle in the wind. Strung from a branch is a hammock made of fishing net attached to a ocean buoy marooned on the beach. Hanging from the branches are sea buoys and balls providing a place to write names or leave a message to those who will come after.
Hanging from branches are bamboo wind chimes that softly clatter in the breeze. It is an island, a refuge, a place of calm and childhood in the stormy seas of life. It appears out of the playa as a mirage, the fantasy playground of youth. Discarded materials transform into an oasis, as our adult lives transform back to childhood. Bangarang!
URL: http://www.createchangeproject.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AVsTUAW
The InnerSun Project
by: The InnerSun Crew
from: The World
year: 2019
This monumental art structure is an eight-story wooden globe gently cradled by a giant pair of hands. Within, the space is lit by a sacred light: the InnerSun. A series of wheelchair accessible ramps wind up the curved walls to an equatorial terrace, where participants will gather inside the sphere.
The InnerSun Project: A global art collaboration. Each massive hand on the structure is comprised of individual human-sized hands with messages from across the world written on them — our collective answer to “what’s your InnerSun?” In this way, thousands of people from anywhere in the world can take part in the artwork itself.
Many hands, one light, a better world.
URL: http://www.theinnersun.org
Contact: [email protected]
Donate To This Project
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXiaUAG
The InnerSun Project
by: The InnerSun Crew
from: The World
year: 2019
This monumental art structure is an eight-story wooden globe gently cradled by a giant pair of hands. Within, the space is lit by a sacred light: the InnerSun. A series of wheelchair accessible ramps wind up the curved walls to an equatorial terrace, where participants will gather inside the sphere.
The InnerSun Project: A global art collaboration. Each massive hand on the structure is comprised of individual human-sized hands with messages from across the world written on them — our collective answer to “what’s your InnerSun?” In this way, thousands of people from anywhere in the world can take part in the artwork itself.
Many hands, one light, a better world.
URL: http://www.theinnersun.org
Contact: [email protected]
Donate To This Project
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXiaUAG
The InnerSun Project
by: The InnerSun Crew
from: The World
year: 2019
This monumental art structure is an eight-story wooden globe gently cradled by a giant pair of hands. Within, the space is lit by a sacred light: the InnerSun. A series of wheelchair accessible ramps wind up the curved walls to an equatorial terrace, where participants will gather inside the sphere.
The InnerSun Project: A global art collaboration. Each massive hand on the structure is comprised of individual human-sized hands with messages from across the world written on them — our collective answer to “what’s your InnerSun?” In this way, thousands of people from anywhere in the world can take part in the artwork itself.
Many hands, one light, a better world.
URL: http://www.theinnersun.org
Contact: [email protected]
Donate To This Project
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXiaUAG
The InnerSun Project
by: The InnerSun Crew
from: The World
year: 2019
This monumental art structure is an eight-story wooden globe gently cradled by a giant pair of hands. Within, the space is lit by a sacred light: the InnerSun. A series of wheelchair accessible ramps wind up the curved walls to an equatorial terrace, where participants will gather inside the sphere.
The InnerSun Project: A global art collaboration. Each massive hand on the structure is comprised of individual human-sized hands with messages from across the world written on them — our collective answer to “what’s your InnerSun?” In this way, thousands of people from anywhere in the world can take part in the artwork itself.
Many hands, one light, a better world.
URL: http://www.theinnersun.org
Contact: [email protected]
Donate To This Project
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXiaUAG
The InnerSun Project
by: The InnerSun Crew
from: The World
year: 2019
This monumental art structure is an eight-story wooden globe gently cradled by a giant pair of hands. Within, the space is lit by a sacred light: the InnerSun. A series of wheelchair accessible ramps wind up the curved walls to an equatorial terrace, where participants will gather inside the sphere.
The InnerSun Project: A global art collaboration. Each massive hand on the structure is comprised of individual human-sized hands with messages from across the world written on them — our collective answer to “what’s your InnerSun?” In this way, thousands of people from anywhere in the world can take part in the artwork itself.
Many hands, one light, a better world.
URL: http://www.theinnersun.org
Contact: [email protected]
Donate To This Project
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AXiaUAG
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Mariposita
by: Chris Carnabuci
from: Cold Spring, NY
year: 2019
Mariposita, meaning “little butterfly”, represents rebirth – of coming out of a shell, escaping confinement, and breaking through to a more meaningful and enlightening existence or experience. The act of emerging, however, is usually not so simple, and the complexity experienced both within the individual viewer and expressed externally as a communal experience, will become the atmosphere surrounding this piece. A rebirth requires power, curiosity, determination, and support, all characteristics that lead to revival and restoration. Mariposita is meant to inspire awakenings and reawakenings, growth and regrowth, beginnings and ends.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW0NUAW
Mariposita
by: Chris Carnabuci
from: Cold Spring, NY
year: 2019
Mariposita, meaning “little butterfly”, represents rebirth – of coming out of a shell, escaping confinement, and breaking through to a more meaningful and enlightening existence or experience. The act of emerging, however, is usually not so simple, and the complexity experienced both within the individual viewer and expressed externally as a communal experience, will become the atmosphere surrounding this piece. A rebirth requires power, curiosity, determination, and support, all characteristics that lead to revival and restoration. Mariposita is meant to inspire awakenings and reawakenings, growth and regrowth, beginnings and ends.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW0NUAW
Mariposita
by: Chris Carnabuci
from: Cold Spring, NY
year: 2019
Mariposita, meaning “little butterfly”, represents rebirth – of coming out of a shell, escaping confinement, and breaking through to a more meaningful and enlightening existence or experience. The act of emerging, however, is usually not so simple, and the complexity experienced both within the individual viewer and expressed externally as a communal experience, will become the atmosphere surrounding this piece. A rebirth requires power, curiosity, determination, and support, all characteristics that lead to revival and restoration. Mariposita is meant to inspire awakenings and reawakenings, growth and regrowth, beginnings and ends.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW0NUAW
Mariposita
by: Chris Carnabuci
from: Cold Spring, NY
year: 2019
Mariposita, meaning “little butterfly”, represents rebirth – of coming out of a shell, escaping confinement, and breaking through to a more meaningful and enlightening existence or experience. The act of emerging, however, is usually not so simple, and the complexity experienced both within the individual viewer and expressed externally as a communal experience, will become the atmosphere surrounding this piece. A rebirth requires power, curiosity, determination, and support, all characteristics that lead to revival and restoration. Mariposita is meant to inspire awakenings and reawakenings, growth and regrowth, beginnings and ends.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW0NUAW
Mariposita
by: Chris Carnabuci
from: Cold Spring, NY
year: 2019
Mariposita, meaning “little butterfly”, represents rebirth – of coming out of a shell, escaping confinement, and breaking through to a more meaningful and enlightening existence or experience. The act of emerging, however, is usually not so simple, and the complexity experienced both within the individual viewer and expressed externally as a communal experience, will become the atmosphere surrounding this piece. A rebirth requires power, curiosity, determination, and support, all characteristics that lead to revival and restoration. Mariposita is meant to inspire awakenings and reawakenings, growth and regrowth, beginnings and ends.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW0NUAW
Mariposita
by: Chris Carnabuci
from: Cold Spring, NY
year: 2019
Mariposita, meaning “little butterfly”, represents rebirth – of coming out of a shell, escaping confinement, and breaking through to a more meaningful and enlightening existence or experience. The act of emerging, however, is usually not so simple, and the complexity experienced both within the individual viewer and expressed externally as a communal experience, will become the atmosphere surrounding this piece. A rebirth requires power, curiosity, determination, and support, all characteristics that lead to revival and restoration. Mariposita is meant to inspire awakenings and reawakenings, growth and regrowth, beginnings and ends.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW0NUAW
Koro Loko
by: Emily Nicolosi
from: Salt Lake City, UT
year: 2019
A billowing heart made of wire netting filled with hundreds of tiny dichroic plexi squares refracts the spectra of light in all directions. Benches under lightposts encircling the heart provide a place to hunker, commune and daydream. Like the exuberance of colors reflected by this heart, always-present and ever-shifting, this heart conjures the thousands of expressions and materializations of love prospected in the human experience.
URL: https://sites.google.com/view/love-is-project/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AW2sUAG
The Temple of Direction
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Stone 27
by: Benjamin Langholz
from: California & Berlin, Germany
year: 2019
Confront nature and yourself as you journey along 27 stones floating above the Playa. Step into an alternate reality where destructive energy has been harmonized with nature to create moments of physical and mental elevation. Stone 27 finds great inspiration in simplicity, minimalism, and math to create clearness and consciousness in a material world, inviting you to a moment of complete presence.
URL: https://stonetwentyseven.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVo2UAG
Deep playa builds
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Final Touches around The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
The Folly
by: Dave Keane & The Folly Builders
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Folly represents an imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from original San Francisco Victorians to be reborn in the desert, affording shelter, entertainment and perspective to the community.
URL: www.thefollybrc.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVkAUAW
Expansion Pavilion
by: Shrine
from: Pasadena, CA
year: 2019
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001T9HSUA0
Expansion Pavilion
by: Shrine
from: Pasadena, CA
year: 2019
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001T9HSUA0
Expansion Pavilion
by: Shrine
from: Pasadena, CA
year: 2019
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001T9HSUA0
Expansion Pavilion
by: Shrine
from: Pasadena, CA
year: 2019
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001T9HSUA0
Expansion Pavilion
by: Shrine
from: Pasadena, CA
year: 2019
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001T9HSUA0
Expansion Pavilion
by: Shrine
from: Pasadena, CA
year: 2019
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001T9HSUA0
BYTE Build crew! by: Jason Blanda from: Guttenberg, NJ year: 2019 B.Ÿ.T.E. (Burners for Ÿntelligent Technology Emancipation) consists of two monolithic, anthropomorphic microchips representing the very first sentient robots to be freed from slavery, Chip and Terra. Chip and Terra were first set free to play on the dusty dance floor of deep playa at Black Rock City in 2018. Their virgin year home was one of exploration as they adapted to their newly found liberation. This year, they hope to enter the imago stage of their evolution and return home to embrace the magical whimsy, radical self expression and symbiotic love as they emerge from their chrysalis and blossom into the colorful, loveable creatures they were always meant to embody. They hope to fully complete their Metamorphoses. URL: https://www.cleaveranimated.com/byte-art-installation Contact: [email protected] https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AY6XUAW
BYTE Build
by: Jason Blanda
from: Guttenberg, NJ
year: 2019
B.Ÿ.T.E. (Burners for Ÿntelligent Technology Emancipation) consists of two monolithic, anthropomorphic microchips representing the very first sentient robots to be freed from slavery, Chip and Terra.
Chip and Terra were first set free to play on the dusty dance floor of deep playa at Black Rock City in 2018. Their virgin year home was one of exploration as they adapted to their newly found liberation.
This year, they hope to enter the imago stage of their evolution and return home to embrace the magical whimsy, radical self expression and symbiotic love as they emerge from their chrysalis and blossom into the colorful, loveable creatures they were always meant to embody. They hope to fully complete their Metamorphoses.
URL: https://www.cleaveranimated.com/byte-art-installation
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AY6XUAW
The Larry Memorial
by: Dana Albany, Andrew Johnstone, David Best, Flash Hopkins
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
A stepped pyramid crowned with a palanquin and large spire, flanked on each corner by lamplighter spires.
It serves as a physical representation of Larry’s mind palace and contains some of Larry’s books and mementos.
Contact: [email protected]
Thank you for all those Man Bases. It was lovely to meet you guys.
The Temple of Direction Build
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction Build
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction Build
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
The Temple of Direction Build
by: Geordie Van Der Bosch
from: San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
The Temple of Direction is organized linearly. It recreates a restricted passage which expands in the center into a large hall. This is a response to the openness of the playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus wandering an open plan; this temple provides direction and focus. Linearity also reflects the passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle and an end which metaphorically is included in this temple’s form. Following this metaphor a variety of spaces are created; narrow spaces and wide spaces, dark spaces and bright spaces. Tunnels create intimate experiences with shade.. A large central hall expands in width and height providing a bright area suitable for gatherings.
URL: https://www.templeofdirection.org
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V00000167U9UAI
Love’s Hug
by: Anna Mok
from: Palo Alto & San Francisco, CA
year: 2019
Love’s Hug rises from the desert as a protected space where one can be extrospective and introspective. It will invoke individual and collective reflections and thoughtful dialogue of the love, happiness and joy that humans create for ourselves and each other.
Love’s Hug invites us to take a rest from the chaos, share an embrace, cuddle with others and be engulfed by human love and warmth in this safe place where we can (re)connect with our own hearts and those of others around us. These connections allow us to remember the limitless powers of the human heart and is a catalyst for transformations.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/306358213575925/
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=h#a2I0V000001AX9kUAG
Niloticus
by: Peter Hazel
from: Reno, NV
year: 2019
Niloticus is a 40 foot long mosaic crocodile that invites visitors to climb on top of him. His eyes, teeth, and osteoderms will light up in the night.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=h#a2I0V000001AW2iUAG
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LOVE
by: Laura Kimpton with Jeff Schomberg
from: Venice, CA and Reno, NV
year: 2019
Rainbow LOVE is celebration of love — reminding us that everyone should have the right to love who they love, and to love themselves.
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001TAJuUAO
The Monumental Mammoth Build
by: Girl Scout Gold Award Recipient Tahoe Mack, Mentor and Protector of Tule Springs Representative Sherri Grotheer, and artists Luis Varela-Rico and Dana Albany
from: Las Vegas, NV
year: 2019
The Monumental Mammoth project will depict a life-sized steel Colombian mammoth skeleton collaged with metal found objects to tell the story of Tule Spring National Monument’s past, present, and future. The sheer size and struggle of the mammoth’s stance is a representation of the universal call to protect what the earth has given humanity. As a community, we are called together to protect the fossils of our past and the education of our future. Dana Albany and Luis Varela-Rico are pulling together the sleek elements of the interior steel structure and the intricate weavings to represents the distinctive community that is Las Vegas.It also tells the story of a rising feminine power, and shows all women of any age that anything is possible!
URL: https://tulemammothproject.wordpress.com
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVtMUAW
Koro Loko
by: Emily Nicolosi
from: Salt Lake City, UT
year: 2019
A billowing heart made of wire netting filled with hundreds of tiny dichroic plexi squares refracts the spectra of light in all directions. Benches under lightposts encircling the heart provide a place to hunker, commune and daydream. Like the exuberance of colors reflected by this heart, always-present and ever-shifting, this heart conjures the thousands of expressions and materializations of love prospected in the human experience.
URL: https://sites.google.com/view/love-is-project/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AW2sUAG
Koro Loko
by: Emily Nicolosi
from: Salt Lake City, UT
year: 2019
A billowing heart made of wire netting filled with hundreds of tiny dichroic plexi squares refracts the spectra of light in all directions. Benches under lightposts encircling the heart provide a place to hunker, commune and daydream. Like the exuberance of colors reflected by this heart, always-present and ever-shifting, this heart conjures the thousands of expressions and materializations of love prospected in the human experience.
URL: https://sites.google.com/view/love-is-project/
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=B#a2I0V000001AW2sUAG
Mrs Ferguson putting the finishing touches on:
Bee or Not to Bee
by: Mr & Mrs Ferguson
from: Alameda, CA
year: 2019
This bee is big. Comparing a person to this sculpture yes, but so is the contribution the honey bee brings to the world’s food supply. Don’t be intimidated by its size. Get close. Draw your hands through its hair. Feel the limbs. Sit on its flower. You’re not vulnerable at all, but the bee species is.
URL: https://www.mr-and-mrs-ferguson.com/
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVu0UAG
Mariposita Build by: Chris Carnabuci from: Cold Spring, NY year: 2019 Mariposita, meaning “little butterfly”, represents rebirth – of coming out of a shell, escaping confinement, and breaking through to a more meaningful and enlightening existence or experience. The act of emerging, however, is usually not so simple, and the complexity experienced both within the individual viewer and expressed externally as a communal experience, will become the atmosphere surrounding this piece. A rebirth requires power, curiosity, determination, and support, all characteristics that lead to revival and restoration. Mariposita is meant to inspire awakenings and reawakenings, growth and regrowth, beginnings and ends. Contact: [email protected] https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW0NUAW
Mariposita Build
by: Chris Carnabuci
from: Cold Spring, NY
year: 2019
Mariposita, meaning “little butterfly”, represents rebirth – of coming out of a shell, escaping confinement, and breaking through to a more meaningful and enlightening existence or experience. The act of emerging, however, is usually not so simple, and the complexity experienced both within the individual viewer and expressed externally as a communal experience, will become the atmosphere surrounding this piece. A rebirth requires power, curiosity, determination, and support, all characteristics that lead to revival and restoration. Mariposita is meant to inspire awakenings and reawakenings, growth and regrowth, beginnings and ends.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AW0NUAW
I.L.Y.
by: Dan Mountain
from: Portola Valley, CA
year: 2019
A 27 foot forearm and hand, fabricated from engineered steel, recycled and repurposed scrap metal meant to engage participants in various visual, physical, and emotional ways. Housing an internal armature of chains, gears, sprockets, and springs, the involvement of participants allows the fingers and parts of the hand to bring the sculpture to its full realization.
The intention of ILY is to encourage communication, collaboration, and eagerness to work together.
Contact: [email protected]
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVqhUAG
Portal Build
by: David Oliver and the Art City Monsters
from: Ventura, CA
year: 2019
A Portal possible of transformation… not to that which is coming, but to things here. With a ring 12′ in diameter made from 4,608 stained glass tiles with a total of 24 colors, graduating the color wheel in a flowing mosaic that is two sided. Two 7-thousand-pound basalt stone columns stand guard from the left and from the right. Portal will also be lit with an increasing laser light show controlled on a theremin device, with sound effects that go off when one enters.
Symbiosis.
The color in harmony attracts vitality through beauty, like a flower does a bee. The bee gets food in exchange for spreading pollen. In the same manner one attracts to Portal. Coming out with powerful frequencies, to bounce off their friends, their family, the animals, EARTH, and even so called… “enemies.”
URL: http://www.facebook.com/PORTALbrc/
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVueUAG
Portal Build
by: David Oliver and the Art City Monsters
from: Ventura, CA
year: 2019
A Portal possible of transformation… not to that which is coming, but to things here. With a ring 12′ in diameter made from 4,608 stained glass tiles with a total of 24 colors, graduating the color wheel in a flowing mosaic that is two sided. Two 7-thousand-pound basalt stone columns stand guard from the left and from the right. Portal will also be lit with an increasing laser light show controlled on a theremin device, with sound effects that go off when one enters.
Symbiosis.
The color in harmony attracts vitality through beauty, like a flower does a bee. The bee gets food in exchange for spreading pollen. In the same manner one attracts to Portal. Coming out with powerful frequencies, to bounce off their friends, their family, the animals, EARTH, and even so called… “enemies.”
URL: http://www.facebook.com/PORTALbrc/
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVueUAG
Portal Build
by: David Oliver and the Art City Monsters
from: Ventura, CA
year: 2019
A Portal possible of transformation… not to that which is coming, but to things here. With a ring 12′ in diameter made from 4,608 stained glass tiles with a total of 24 colors, graduating the color wheel in a flowing mosaic that is two sided. Two 7-thousand-pound basalt stone columns stand guard from the left and from the right. Portal will also be lit with an increasing laser light show controlled on a theremin device, with sound effects that go off when one enters.
Symbiosis.
The color in harmony attracts vitality through beauty, like a flower does a bee. The bee gets food in exchange for spreading pollen. In the same manner one attracts to Portal. Coming out with powerful frequencies, to bounce off their friends, their family, the animals, EARTH, and even so called… “enemies.”
URL: http://www.facebook.com/PORTALbrc/
https://burningman.org/event/brc/2019-art-installations/?yyyy=&artType=H#a2I0V000001AVueUAG
Nice Robot hauler.
Gear dump.
Guy at gate asks me if I have a drone. I tell him yes I have one. I also tell him I’ve registered with Media Mecca but won’t be shooting with the drone and hand him paperwork. So they send me to DLOT. I spent a few minutes in DLOT and one of the gentlemen tells me they know who I am and that they don’t have to worry about me and they let me out immediately. If someone has a drone and they plan on doin it wrong, they ain’t gonna tell ya they have one… Just sayin.
Rad van.
The anticipation builds.
Harold is a badass. He drove this thing like a champ and made it look easy. Shout out to Sarge for the handoff here as well.
No traffic.
Burning Man 2019 sign by Mad Dog
Convoying onto the playa with friends.
Click on any photo to see it at full resolution and enjoy!
This panorama is so massive it broke everything on my website and server so I had to stick it down here. If you click the photo it will load a gigantic ~350 Megabyte image that might crash your device… It’s Panorama 1/3 + 2/3 + 3/3 from above combined into one. It was shot at roughly 510 and D. Cannot remember the name of the camp for the life of me. This image is about 520 Megapixels or 64461X8062 pixels.
Where’s The Temple Burn? Nothing against all you fine temple builders (some of my campmates) but I had to leave the burn right after the man burn to rush home to take my daughter to her first day of school.
Wait HALP! I tend to make lots of mistakes here with captions and I would be really appreciate any comments (very bottom of page) or direct emails telling me how about it. For example you could tell me the names of various unknown pieces or art. Or just how I’m doing it wrong. I will then update this post to reflect your comment or email. Just copy the link to the photo or email the photo to me so I’ll know which photo you’re talking about.
Thank You Dorothy Thank you Dorothy for allowing me to come out to the burn yet again. Thank you for holding down the fort so the community could have these images. I love you so much!
More Thank Yous Thank you to: Sarge (master of networks), Vaike, Marian, Will Roger, Crimson Rose (for taking pity on me for being late to a meeting because I was in the sky), Scott London, Danee Hazama, Purple Haze, Jeremy G, Jeremy, Jazzy, Jamen, Drew, Harold, Tracey, the Epiphany & Co crew, and all of Awesomesauce.
Shout Outs Shout out to the build teams, the artists, the volunteers, ORG Staff, the Medical support, DPW, Fire Conclave, Media Mecca, and on and on. I could go on forever. I’m just grateful and humbled by all of the work you’ve done and continue to do to make this such a vibrant community.
There are roughly A TRILLION PHOTOS on this page. Some images are NSFW. Please be patient while this bloated bandwidth behemoth of a page loads. Maybe go have a coffee and come back when it’s done loading? Actually maybe go exercise your scroll finger. You’re gonna need it.
Here are my Burning Man 2018 Photos!
All of my Burning Man images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial license. If you share them you must attribute the photographs to me by name and link to Duncan.co You can’t sell them or make money from them in any way whatsoever. That includes advertising on a website.
I tried my best to caption every single image correctly. All 1,111 of them. If you know what the correct caption should be please comment at the very bottom of this post waaaaaay down there or email me directly and I’ll update this post accordingly.
This was first published October 12th, 2018 at 11:11AM EDT. I will be updating this post with the correct captions, typos, and corrections as they come in. If the captions don’t make sense it’s because the image titles aren’t appearing on this post correctly yet. I’m trying to fix that. (If you happen to know how to get image titles to display in a wordpress post contact me!)
Updates
Update 1: October 12th Added Flickr and Photo.Duncan.co links.
Update 2: October 12th Added Reddit thread link.
Update 3: October 12th Updated some captions.
Update 4: October 13th Updated captions on 0861, 0619, 0693, 0433, 1077, 0298, 0261, 0275, 0302-0307, 0296, 0214, 1020, 1033, 1056, 1057, 0676, 0118-0123, 0321, 0351, 0385, 0498, 0516, 0577, 0256, 0670.
Update 5: October 17th Updated captions on 0415, 0838, 0180, 0618, 0112, 0264, 0392-0394, 0499, 0500, 0914-0918, 0378, 0379, 0294, 0295, 0518, 0525, 0532, 0685, 0535, 0579.
The images are in chronological order.
Notes
Burning Man 2018 was certainly a great burn. People have been saying it may have been one of the greatest burns ever. IMHO every burn is so unique that trying to rank them is a fools errand. Regardless, it was an incredible event. Everything seemed to go right from the weather to all the builds. During the ten days I was on playa I shot 13,323 images in total. That works out to roughly 1,300 photos per day at a rate of 1 photo per minute for 240 hours straight. To give you an idea of how silly that is, if I spend 5 seconds looking at each image it takes 18 hours non-stop. And that’s just to look at them for five seconds each. I had to decide which ones don’t work and which ones might. In other words, the amount of time it has taken me to shoot, cull, process, keyword, and publish this gallery is completely absurd. I’ve gained 10 pounds staring at the computer processing them all. It has taken me every spare moment I’ve had since I left the playa and I love it. It’s how I decompress. It’s just been a lot and I’m spent.
Why do I do this?
When I hear my alarm clocks at 3:30AM every morning at the burn I ask myself that question. Why THE HELL am I doing this? It takes me a couple minutes to remember that it doesn’t even matter why in that moment. I know I have to just do the work right now. I can think about it later. Do the work right now. Do the work right now. Do the work RIGHT NOW. Burning Man is such a fleeting bit of magic that I know I have to get to work right this instant. The complete mental and physical exhaustion is part of it. So if I just do the work right now everything else takes care of itself. So why do I do this? I do it because it makes me happy. I feel present, connected, and happy when I’m out shooting the burn. I’m glad I did the work. I’m pleased to know that maybe you’ll find the photos interesting or useful or delightful. Who knows, if I’m lucky these images will bring a little bit of that wonderful Burning Man feeling wherever you are.
In Loving Memory
This image gallery is dedicated to the memory of Larry Harvey. Larry was one of the main co-founders of Burning Man and much much more. Larry was always gracious and friendly in the time we spent together. Larry had an incredible impact on my life. When I started going to Burning Man in 2012 I was just barely pulling myself out of a decades long tail spin of alcoholism, loneliness, and severe chronic depression (Dysthymia). Many of my battles never go away, but I’m just much better equipped to deal with them and that’s largely thanks to Larry Harvey. Without Burning Man I wouldn’t be where I am today. I’m happily married, have two wonderful kids, and am living a life that was not even imaginable to me even a decade ago. I’m just glad I was able to tell Larry that in person. When I told him I could tell he’d heard that same type of story thousands of times over the years. He was super friendly about it and I appreciated that. Imagine having that kind of impact? Something to aspire to for sure.
This is the last picture I shot of Larry. Peacefully watching the Man Burn surrounded by thousands of friends, art, fire, light, and love. Thank you Larry.
Thank You Dorothy
Thank you Dorothy for allowing me to come out to the burn yet again. Dorothy was at home looking after our children. We are still a bit hesitant about bringing our very small children to Burning Man but maybe next year. It’s a long damn way from where we live in the 1000 Islands to get to the playa. Thank you for holding down the fort so the community could have these images. U da real MVP sweetie. Love you so much!!!
More Thank Yous
Thank you to: Marian, Heather, Will Roger, Crimson Rose, Scott London, Danee Hazama, Dominique, Purple Haze, Jeremy G, Jeremy, Benoit, Jazzy, Alex, Sam, Drew, Sarge, Mathieu, Michael, Harold, Tracey, Jair, Wes, All of Awesomesauce, and Greg and The Altitude Lounge.
Shout Outs
Shout out to the artists, the volunteers, Burning Man Staff, the Medical support, DPW, Build Teams, Fire Conclave, Media Mecca, and on and on. I could go and on and on. I’m just grateful and humbled by all of the work you’ve all done and continue to do.
Thank you for letting me point my annoying camera at you.
Some of my photographs we’re featured in the Smithsonian exhibition No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man. I was honoured to take part. Nora Atkinson curated the show and she did a spectacular job. I was blown away by the work included in the show and was thrilled to meet many of the artists.
Dorothy and I went to DC to attend the preview party for the artists in the exhibition. Here are some photos I shot at the artist preview party and around the exhibition on March 28th 2018.